Client's Story The reason I reached out to Leona for support and advice was because I had constant suicidal thoughts with some days being much darker than other. It took me about a month and a half before I sought help. Leona built a safe environment for me, one session at a time, which eventually allowed me to overcome any fears or hesitations. Leona's strengths that worked for me were her structure and assertiveness. She was in full control of the situation and she had a complete understandin...

TO BOOK CALL: 07 505 124 933 CBT therapy for depression was developed by Aaron Beck (1967). Beck was classically psychoanalytically trained as most of his contemporaries in the early 20th century. However, Beck noticed that his depressed patients improved faster when he focused on the clients' negative thoughts rather than the psychosexual stages of development of the psychoanalytical model and this is how he developed the cognitive behavioural therapy model (CBT). Beck provided the efficacy o...

TO BOOK CALL: 07 505 124 933 Contrary to many assumptions that a resistant depression is difficult to treat when depressed clients come to see me for CBT depression therapy, I find depression to be the least complicated condition to treat and I am confident that many CBT professionals would agree with me. My preferred method of work is to utilise the Cognitive Behavioural Therapy approach that was developed by Aaron Beck in the US. The Cognitive Behavioural therapy focuses on client's negati...

Depression is one of the most prevalent drivers of disability worldwide in 20 – 29-years-old (Mental Health Foundation Report, 2015) and CBT of depression has been found to be one of the most effective form of treatment. In the UK, depression is one of the most important causes of sickness absence and accompanied with anxiety it affects approximately 9% of people (NICE, 2011), and between 4 – 10% of people will suffer from depression in their lifetime in England (Jenkins et al, 2009). In 2013,...

The aim of this section is to describe the symptoms that a person suffering from a depression might experience. Depression is essentially a disorder of your mood and classified in the Diagnostic Statistical Manual under 'Mood Disorders', written by the American Psychiatric Association (APA, 2000). The APA states that for a person to be diagnosed with a depression the depressive symptoms should be present for at least two weeks and it will result in a change that will be different compared to the...

They tell you that Christmas is not the time of loneliness and depression.  All you can hear constantly from the radio and television are advertisements about joy, the family time, lots of presents and lots of great food. In conjunction with the media Christmas advertising as you walk through London to fetch your lunch, you are being bombarded again with upbeat Christmas songs. Boxes of presents are shoved in your face as soon as you enter your local supermarket store. You are being cons...