You Can Lift Depression Quickly!

Your depressed clients will feel hopeless, listless, less enthusiastic about so many things, and even as though they've lost their former personality. Treatment can be difficult, depending on your understanding of depression and your client's unique circumstances. We've worked with many therapists over the years and know from their experiences treating depression (as well as our own) that it can be demoralizing to see a client make slow or even backward progress.

All this can start to affect your own emotional state. You worry about your client, you try new strategies, you discuss the case with your supervisor, you read and re-read that shelf of depression books. Most of all, you hope for a flash of inspiration, wondering if there's more you could do to ease your depressed clients' suffering or a faster way to bring positivity back to their lives. The good news is: there is!

95% success within 6 sessions? Yes, it's possible! (You'll even enjoy it)

Our Uncommon approach to treating depression can teach you the skills and knowledge to help your depressed clients feel much better from Session 1 and reliably lift depression in 95% of your clients within six sessions!

We know that sounds almost too good to be true, but it's not a claim we make lightly. Take our home study course and we promise that you will find treating your next three depressed clients to be an uplifting and enriching experience - for both you and them! If not, you have the choice of a full refund of your course fee or help from us in improving your treatment approach until it works.

You may even find yourself so excited by your new skill in treating depression quickly that you actively seek out depressed people to treat.

Going beyond cognitive-behavioural therapy

Cognitive, behavioural, and interpersonal approaches to therapy are all key facets of depression treatment. However, lacking a clarifying framework and specific skills can make these approaches overly complex and confusing for both client and therapist.

The Uncommon Knowledge approach combines all of these tools - and much more - to form a clear understanding of what depression is, giving both you and your client direction for the way forward at every stage of treatment.

Why should you learn how to lift depression quickly from Uncommon Knowledge?

Since 1996, we have been using this depression treatment approach in our own clinic and training programs. Prior to then, the founders of Uncommon Knowledge worked with revolutionary psychologist Joseph Griffin, who had developed a revolutionary new understanding of depression, radically changing how the condition was viewed.

Uncommon Knowledge created the Depression Learning Path website to educate as many people as possible - depressed or not - about this illuminating new approach. Since its launch in 2001, over five million people have used the site and thousands have sent us heart-warming feedback, saying how it has improved their lives.

Benefit from your trainers' experience with treating depression

'How to Lift Depression' is led by Mark Tyrrell and Roger Elliott of Uncommon Knowledge: engaging trainers who conduct hundreds of hours of training every year and use their experience to lend a light touch and clear view to this subject.

How our home study course works

To learn our highly effective method of lifting depression, all you need is a computer with a USB socket and internet access.

When you receive your pack, you get your access details to the Knowledge Lab, our online training center. Within this private login area, you have access to discussion forums where you can ask a question of the trainers, bounce around an idea with others to further your understanding of the information, or just chat with and get to know your fellow delegates.

And support doesn't end when the course does! From the day your learning commences, you will have continuous access to the Lab Lounge, a post-course forum for support and community with other Uncommon distance learning delegates.

Here's more information on how our home study courses work.

What do I get in my home study pack?

Over the seven sessions of the How to Lift Depression course, you will learn via:

• A beautiful 4GB Uncommon Knowledge USB stick!
• Five studio-recorded audio presentations.
• Two video lectures by Mark Tyrrell.
• A workbook with overviews and summaries of each session, transcripts of the presentations and video lectures, and checklists to work through.
• A Depression Treatment video showing Mark Tyrrell treating a depressed client using the approach you will learn.
• Full access to Uncommon Knowledge's Depression Recovery Program (a $97 value). You will be able to download a 200-page workbook packed with tasks, exercises, and ideas that you can use with depression sufferers. Also included are 17 audio 'Relaxed Reviews' to embed the learning of the key points.
• Powerful Reframes CD set (a $55 value), showing through studio-recorded roleplays how you can recognize and gently reframe depressive thoughts - without breaking rapport. As someone familiar with the black-and-white thinking displayed by depressed people, you know how vitally important this skill is.
• A relaxation CD and the rights to provides copies to your clients, because relaxation is a necessary aid for recovering from the exhaustion of depression and promoting clear thinking.
• The depression therapist's toolkit, containing:
  • Step-by-step depression session guide, including teaching aids for your clients:
    • The depression learning path and a license to print it for your clients, to provide them with a complete understanding of how depression works.
    • The cycle of depression - an easy-to-remember diagram for your clients to carry that puts them in control of their depression.
    • A self-assessment guide to help your client recognize how they unhelpfully explain their world.
    • A clear chart showing how nutrition can affect mood.
  • Six reliable ways to calm anxiety in others.
  • A tried-and-tested method to improve sleep quality quickly.
  • A how-to reminder for spotting the skills and knowledge your client is missing that are contributing to the depression.
• Hypnosis scripts and MP3.
• Online tests to check your understanding of the material.

Proof of attendance

Once you have successfully completed the How to Lift Depression online course, we will mail you a ready-to-frame certificate of attendance.

What you'll learn

We want you to know just how much value there is in the How to Lift Depression course, so read on to learn more about the course contents.

We promise that you will:

• Understand:
  • Why anxiety drives depression and what to do about it.
  • How to combat the constant tiredness that goes hand-in-hand with depression - and why it happens.
  • Why half as many men suffer from depression, compared to women.
  • How to prevent the complexity of a depressed person's symptoms and life circumstances from pulling you down.
  • Why post-natal (post-partum) depression in most new mothers can be successfully treated with this method.
  • How drugs for depression work (and why they often don't!).
  • What is happening within a depressed person's physiology and how to use simple pictorial aids to teach them this key knowledge - the first step towards helping them recover.
  • How to feel great about your work and avoid burn out!
• Learn how to:
  • Teach clients to calm themselves outside the therapy room.
  • Teach clients cognitive therapy techniques for spotting how they unhelpfully explain their world and for thinking more healthily.
  • Keep depression away for good by creating an 'insurance policy'.
  • Avoid the classic mistake we've all made at least once - you can't argue your client better! Learn what to do instead.
  • Best structure your sessions for rapid results.
  • Ask questions that start your client changing for the better.
  • Help your clients help themselves recover.
  • Get the best from your client.
  • Quickly build trust with your client to ensure easier acceptance of your therapeutic interventions.
  • Help your client think more rationally and objectively about their circumstances.
  • Consolidate your clients' changes outside the session room.
  • Apply your new understanding and skills to a variety of depressive conditions successfully.
• See why:
  • Depression makes you anxious and unable to think straight.
  • Even a client presenting with exhaustion needs help calming down.

Money back guarantee

We promise that you will find treating your next three depressed clients to be an uplifting and enriching experience - for both you and them! If not, you have the choice of a full refund of your course fee (simply send back your course pack) or help from us in improving your treatment approach until it works.

With your new, clear understanding of what is happening to your depressed client and empowering knowledge of how to get them back on track, you will become a member of the increasing group of therapists who are making an instant difference in the lives of their depressed clients by cutting through the outdated, unscientific, and confusing information often spread about depression!

Questions? Please ask here.