Depression Counselling

When a person is depressed they change the chemistry of the body through their thinking. The mind is often full of regret, disappointment and guilt and will release uncomfortable stress hormones in the body such as cortisol. Much of this comes from our in-built fear response. We also reduce the feel-good neurotransmitters of dopamine and serotonin. We require these neurotransmitters to think effectively which is why it is hard to think effectively when we are depressed.

Many antidepressant medications are designed to artificially increase the levels of these neurotransmitters but they don’t fix the root cause of the problem; the thinking. Without a clear resolution, depression can come and go for years, often triggered by other things that happen in life. Some people resort to self-medicating using drugs or alcohol but these will only fuel the depression and make things worse. Others run away to sit in front of a pokie machine so they don’t need to think and then get even more depressed about the money they have gambled and lost. Our clinical hypnotherapy and depression counselling aims to find the root cause of an individual’s depression, offering a healthy and long-term treatment plan. We also offer anxiety treatments and anger management courses to help people cope with a range of mental health issues.

We have a four to a six-week program of one session per week, using hypnotherapy and depression counselling to resolve the issues at a subconscious level. These sessions take place in Dandenong, giving easily accessible depression counselling services to the people of Knox, Cranbourne, Oakleigh, and around Melbourne. We also offer hypnosis recordings to listen to between sessions and other recordings that can be listened to in a car. Our services are also covered by some health funds.