Never feel helpless in the face of your client's depression again

This course isn't cheap but it is very comprehensive, covering every area of depression and enabling the therapist to have a real handle on depression. The course has given me confidence that I really can make a difference to depressed or anxious clients.

Your customer service is excellent. Uncommon U is a great resource. Even though I have never met Mark I feel as though he is a wise and helpful friend, like my supervisor, whom I do meet, of course; I hold them both in high esteem.

If there was one practical step that you could implement that enables your clients to fix themselves: this is the course for you. You not only get one practical step, you get a multiplicity of practical therapeutic interventions that work. Mark and Roger have honed their craft from years of working with clients. Take this course now; your clients will thank you and you will know that your work makes a difference. No mumbo jumbo, just stuff that works.

If you want to understand depression and help yourself or others experiencing it, then this is the course for you. A refreshing look at the subject which draws upon evidence-based practice and robust research with well-produced and up-to-date resources/PDFs.

I'm able to help my clients understand the cycle of depression and where antidepressants fit within a treatment plan (or not as in many of my clients' experiences). Providing information about the purpose of sleeping and dreaming and REM sleep has helped clients recognise why they feel the way they feel, particularly showing that I understand their complete exhaustion in the morning. They feel so relieved that I 'get it' where they have not felt understood or listened to by their GP or MH professional.

I've had some great feedback from clients who report that their sleep has improved and they have more energy to do the things they used to enjoy. Also, quite a few have demanded a meds review from their GP (some have never had one in over 20 years of taking the same antidepressant - and they are still depressed!). When I see clients for a follow up session, they say how 'it all makes sense now' which I feel very privileged to have helped them gain this understanding.

Practical, sensitive, and friendly - you won't be disappointed! Loved every second of the course and found the customer service excellent.

I looked forward to each Session and find I'm able to use the material in my practice daily. The course has been an invaluable addition to me as a practitioner - filling gaps in my knowledge (lots of 'yes, that makes sense!' moments), providing an evidence-based framework for treatment, and sparking the enthusiasm to take it out there and make a real difference. Mark and Roger have done a very good job indeed - as have the many of you involved in the course production and delivery.

Having finished the course I refocused on what I wanted to specialize in and now work exclusively on delivering How to Lift Depression Fast and The Rewind Technique, especially useful with anxiety, over-thinking, etc.

The results have been nothing short of outstanding and I am now something of a go-to person in our small community.

I have even worked with a very intelligent guy diagnosed with bipolar. When I asked him how long he had been living this way, he said it felt like forever, but when we did some work, he had only ever overheard it in a conversation between his mum and a consultant. It was only a possibility, but he adopted the identity and lived much of his life in this way. Once he found out about the cycle of depression, the joy on his face was incredible. He is finally off medication and has decided to keep on seeing me occasionally. Apparently he had been taking these meds for years over nothing more than a conversation with no necessity for it, how totally incredible is his story!

I not long ago completed the Lifting Depression Fast course. So far I have used the program officially once for Depression and had resounding results. My client was an 85 year old woman. Her daughter brought her to see me for severe insomnia whilst she was visiting her. It ended up being depression. After one session she understood what was happening to her. Within a week her sleeping, eating, exercise, self talk improved.

The second week she was reconnecting with old friends. Basic Human Needs. She was starting to request more attention from family, e.g. meals, taking her out to the farm, dropping in for more than 10 minutes, etc. She became more relaxed and more confident to the point where she could walk without fear of falling over and making decisions. She started to read again too.

Her inner strength came back which made her more resilient when her brother had passed away after the 2nd week of treatment.

Her doctor took her off blood pressure tablets after two weeks as she didn't need to be on medication as it had reduced to normal! She found hard to as she was so attached to the medication she had taken for over 40 years and did a little reframing and she seems to be ok. She has returned to her home town where she lives so she only had two sessions.

Interestingly, this darling woman did not want to be hypnotised at all, so we just labelled it 'relaxation' and she was ok with that. There's always a way to get around those pre-conceived myths! :-) I also gave her one of my own recorded hypnosis MP3s and some relaxation tracks. This helped her a lot. I doubt whether she has filled in her goal setting sheets (basic needs); however, she started addressing those needs that weren't being met in her own way.

I have another few clients Ill be seeing over the next two weeks for the depression program so I have no doubt it will help them too.

I have used other parts of the program for other issues to help with goal setting - primal human needs etc, self talk, explanatory styles etc.

I loved this course and learnt a lot!

I just would like to thank you for the Lift Depression course I've just successfully completed. I enjoyed the structure immensely and liked the way it built in detail and complexity as the different modules were revealed, that and how the quiz at the end of each section carried questions on from previous sections.

I also appreciate that I've fair bit more to study with all the recommended reading, and to get to know the materials a lot better than I do right now before I would feel comfortable seeing someone coping with depression. That said...I can't wait! (is it wrong to be excited about the chance to work with someone with depression?)

This course is enjoyable and easily accessible. Useful when one's computer skills are limited. It is also easy to access help if required. What I found most useful was that all the different pieces of information that I have learned and picked up over the years was put into a coherent whole. Also structure was given on how to use this knowledge with the client in the counselling room.

These aren't just courses for counsellors and therapists - I feel I have an amazing, creative team around me supporting my practice in the most informative, engaging, and accessible way.

The course is easily accessible whenever I need it. The client sessions are invaluable in helping me to develop confidence in using the approach. The contact with other practitioners from so many disciplines is helpful as well as listening to the session reviews afterwards. The tests with audio and written material is so helpful. You keep it up to date and relevant and the courses are brilliant. Office staff are great. Just about everything you guys do is fantastic and you have become a part if my everyday life.

Thank you for providing the professional guidance that I was looking for. Thank you.

I've seen too many clients on medication that remain depressed. Your course gives them new hope.

There is more useful information about depression in this course than I learned in any at university! It is practical, sensible, and works!

How to Lift Depression Fast was one on the best courses I have ever done. It really provides a practical approach to working with clients experiencing the symptoms of depression. I would recommend this course to any professional who is working with this client base. The course provides a wealth of materials. I particularly found the recordings of the live monthly Q&A helpful. As a Counsellor who's passionate about suicide prevention and supporting clients to move toward a full and rewarding life, I have found everything in this course to be extremely useful.

I have clients who have, and are, improving their level of functioning following the course, How to Lift Depression Fast; but had not experienced a dramatic change in anyone, as much as my own improvement. After losing close family members this winter following the collapse of my husband's business, and subsequent fallout, I noticed I was experiencing many signs of depression for the first time in my life. I not only feel more like my 'old self' again, but have a deeper understanding of what many of my clients live on a daily basis; often over a period of months, years, and even decades.

I was surprised to learn many of the teachings from grad school and post graduate learning were outdated and/or incorrect. I also love the simplicity of the course...it makes sense...it's easy to follow...and the multi-sensory learning is great. I have the option of reading/reviewing the information using my preferred learning style (visual), listening to the educational audios in my "University on Wheels", and listening to the hypnotherapy audios as I unwind in the evening.

I have begun spending time educating clients regarding the cycle of depression, the influence of dreaming on energy, the importance of meeting our primal needs (remember Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs), and the power of hypnotherapy, among other pertinent information. I have never used hypnotherapy for depression as much as I have since completing this course.

Learning the "How to Lift Depression Fast" was an eye opener for me. It provides me with a clearer picture of depression and how we can help those in depression to come out of it faster compared to conventional psychotherapeutic approaches. And the information in the course can be easily relayed to depressed clients in non-technical terms so that helps in getting the message across too.

Nothing that I learned from my masters degree course gave me so much confidence as to how to help the clients who are suffering greatly from depression.

One of my clients suffered panic attacks during online meetings. She looked so relieved when I talked to her about how her response is like the car alarm metaphor mentioned in the course. She had been questioning herself: "What is wrong with me?" Knowing that it is not her and it is something that we can change gave her a great sense of relief.

The information and the skills provided in the course are extremely helpful for the client to understand their condition and how to get better.

I don't know about other counseling programs, but when I was doing my masters program, I learned all the different theories from Freudian to CBT to existentialism. Never have I ever come across something like this that is so applicable.

This depression lifting course opens up just so many windows on the world of ignorance. After just a few chapters, you could wander through your playing cards, helping the general populace view their daily lives with a more relaxed mind-set. This course is so easily understood, so enlightening, that it should be left in every hotel bedside table, be taught in the schools, be mandatory in every University Diploma. If you need a market, be assured that there's 350 million humans on the planet desperately needing someone like YOU who knows how to apply the knowledge that this course holds.

The course was SO worth it. It provided enough information about depression and how to work with clients to be useful and helpful but not so much as to be overwhelming. I felt immediately confident enough to start working with depressed clients, which I wasn't before. I love this approach and the videos and audios made it super useful and easy to engage with the material. If you're hesitating about this course - do it! You won't regret it.

This is by far the best course on depression; more importantly, how to help clients grow out of it! It is packed with information and practical solutions how to help a person quickly start feeling better and in control. The course completely made me rethink how to help people with depression- as a practitioner I went from being "scared" of working with clients with depression and anxiety to someone who LOVES working with them. I actually get excited whenever I get such client!

A very accessible course, with lots of information we can work through in our own time. I particularly liked the practical exercises, which have helped me deal with my own anxiety and depression. I feel like I have 'walked the talk' and can now move on to help others. The self-hypnosis MP3s are truly excellent and of a massive help in my daily life (I use them daily). Very supportive course and community, thank you. :)

I have found your course exceptionally good. I have undertaken a number of different trainings and feel I have a good toolkit (NLP, Hypnosis, CBT, SFT, EFT) and what I have really found useful with your depression course is that it has provided me with a really great structure and greater confidence and clarity in pulling it all together. Thanks for the course - it is really making a difference!

In comparison to the current view of mainstream medicine this approach to depression is much more sound and convincing to me.

The course content is excellent. Everything is brought together in a clear and immediately applicable format. Understanding the Cycle of Depression is important for any hypnotherapist and I continue to find some of the key concepts essential, not only in working with my clients with depression but also in other areas such as anxiety, panic and migraine. A vital component of any therapist's toolkit!

What I particularly liked was the availability of the recordings so I could listen and re-listen as often as I wished, gleaning more from them each time. I also thought that the support material was of a very high standard, broadening and consolidating the learning from the calls. I found the content to be invaluable. It gave me a fresh perspective on depression and tools I can use with confidence with my clients. Thank you.

[The Trainers] were wonderful of course, and professional and approachable at the same time--tricky combination as I'm sure you know! I learned so much and I hardly noticed. Thanks for so many skills and techniques and ideas. Best of luck to all at Uncommon Knowledge--I will spread the word as much as I am able!

I liked the build up of the course and the weeks focus, topics and practicality. I liked the interactive parts where [the trainers] got us to "think aloud" - some good ideas came up. The Depression-Program is great resource of knowledge and ideas that I already use with clients with success, so I probably will come back to it for more ideas in the future. All in all it is a great value course and got me to deepen my understanding and show me how much I already know and can use with clients.

I liked the way the 'Lift Depression Quickly' course was presented step-by-step with the assessments available to view right from the outset, so that one has a well rounded and big picture view of what is required. It enables one to see where it is going. Thank you, this was a fabulous course and it came just at the right time for me on a personal level because I have had three operations in the last two years to cure cancer, one of which thrust me into a surgically induced menopause and I truly needed (I didn't think I did at the time) to clear out my mind. This course helped me to rid myself of some of those 'silly little niggling thoughts' and I am now not only mentally healthy and balanced but also mentally strong again, which in turn has had a big impact on my physical fitness! THANK YOU for returning me to being MAXINE!!

It is hard to be specific as there is such a wealth of great information in this course. I know I will be referring back to it all as standard reference material for a long time to come (maybe forever) as it is all bountifully rich in knowledge and helping tools. It's awesome to have The Depression Learning Path and Ebook too. I feel so much wiser for having everything at my fingertips and being able to really get a handle on what depression is and how to help someone in a positive way. Thank-you so much [The Trainers] :-)