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'Therapeutic care
& Personal Development - The solution to your problems is in
you'
 Depression Counselling
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Depression,
Anxiety and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder are commonplace in the UK
population and are medical conditions. As such you must seek assistance
from a medical doctor as well as seeking appropriate support in terms
of counselling or coaching.
Complementary Health therapists like ourselves do not diagnose, and do
not claim to treat the condition directly. When it comes to medical
conditions like depression, counselling or life coaching and other
complementary methods can be extremely helpful as part of an overall
care plan and management plan, but may not be called a "cure". This
said, most GP's are happy for their patients to also seek private
therapy support from properly qualified practitioners, since the value
of emotional support is clear.
Depression is usually best treated as a care plan:
1. Always seek support from your GP
2. As long as there is no objection on medical grounds (very rare) it
is usually a good idea to seek counselling, coaching or other similar
support.
3. Consider support groups, self help reading and self help methods. A
good Life Coach can help you with these.
4. Maintain contact and support with your GP or specialist so that you
continue to maintain medically qualified supervision.
Coaching, Counselling
and psychotherapy with Depression
Counselling, psychotherapy
and
coaching methods do not "treat" or attempt to "cure" the actual
depression .
We are not
allowed to call it that because it is against UK advertising
regulations, and for good reason. What we can do however is address the
causes for the depression if those are transitional, trauma, grief,
bereavement or learning related. Therefore if your depression is caused
by a trauma or grief for example, we can work on that, and by dealing
with it you may be able to overcome your depression.
In other cases depression and other conditions are clinical and organic
in nature. In other words they have a physical causation. Where the
cause is physical and not emotional, therapy can not "remove" or
"address" the actual cause as it can in many emotional conditions.
Instead the emphasis is on helping the client to manage the condition
better, reducing symptoms, enabling early warning, and providing self
help tools to improve the quality of life.
Therefore if the depression is caused by life events, and is emotional
in causation, we can address that cause, thus helping you take away the
source of the depression. This can provide substantial or total relief
in many cases as the clients themselves may then recover from the
resultant condition.
If
the
condition is physical in causation, then the quality of the client's
life can be greatly improved through better self care, self help and
management skills, as well with dealing with the resultant emotional
stress of the condition through therapy and support. Where the
condition does have a physical cause, clients are warned to be
particularly careful in taking themselves off any medication. We as
complementary therapists do not attempt to replace medical treatment,
indeed we work with conventional medicine practitioners. You should
never cease taking medication without consulting your medical doctor
first!
Many of the methods used are
combined where appropriate in
Transpersonal psychology / transpersonal psychotherapy. This does not
mean having to convert to or follow any particular faith or belief.
Indeed a strength of transpersonal therapy is to look at common themes
in faith and non-faith societies.
Uni-Polar
Depression
Most clients tend to suffer from "uni" polar depression, that is to say
that they suffer from a depressed state, and not from mood swings into
an "up" or "elevated" state. Often referred to as "clinical
depression".
Bi-Polar
Depression
Often referred to as the older term "manic depression", this type of
depression has mood swings both into depression, and up into a
hypo-manic or manic state. Thus the sufferer will tend to have times of
deep depression, and times of excessive manic and inappropriate
behaviour. More information on mood disorder management HERE
Transitional
Depression
This is the type of depression that results from life events. This
might include bereavement, redundancy, illness and injury. If left
untreated it may well become a longer term condition, but if caught
early may be completely resolved. Counselling and holistic therapy, as
always in addition to medical advice via your doctor, are very
effective in helping people to resolve these passing issues.
Be
proactive
If
you have a
lifestyle that is challenging or stressful, or if you simply feel under
pressure, it makes sense to have life coaching support on a regular
basis, perhaps one session per one or two months. This provides support
and a way of "off loading", as well as providing an opportunity to have
proactive responses to problems. Sometimes if you do this, you can
"catch" problems before they become more serious, resulting in
conditions such as depression.
If you are suffering from any type of depression, or mood swings,
counselling, psychotherapy and CBT may be extremely useful in managing
your condition. Please note however that these are only appropriate in
addition to medical supervision, and you must stay in contact with your
medical doctor.
As well as comprehensive training and qualification in a range of
therapies applicable to this topic, Denise has completed "Anxiety and
depression: in association with NICE" CPD with British Medical
Journal Learning and Stuart has completed "Anxiety and depression: in
association with NICE", "Bipolar
disorder:
management in primary care - in association with NICE", "Bipolar disorder:
management in secondary care - in association with NICE" CPD courses
with British Medical Journal Learning.
In the first instance drop us an
email or
use the feedback form to contact us. We can then advise whether we feel
we can appropriately assist you.
Denise is a CCC registered counsellor, Stuart is a NCP
and
NACHP registered psychotherapist and counsellor.
We adhere to
appropriate National Occupational Standards, carry
professional insurance and support regulation of
therapists. We
support the coming voluntary regulation of psychotherapy and
counselling. Stuart is a CNHC registered hypnotherapist (voluntary
regulation of hypnotherapy).
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EASY METHOD:
From 2010 psychological therapy will also contain elements of
mindfulness and CBT in order to increase client development between
sessions.
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