Depression

Depression Hypnotherapy in Newcastle & the North East

Depression can affect much more than your mood. You may experience a loss of motivation or enjoyment, low self-esteem, negative thoughts about yourself or the future, changes in sleep or simply feel that everyday life requires far more effort than it once did.

At Peaceful Minds in Newcastle, Sian Barnard provides professional therapy for depression, combining CBT, clinical hypnotherapy and psychotherapy techniques to help you understand the patterns contributing to how you feel and begin making positive changes.

Understanding Depression and Negative Thinking

Depression can influence the way you think about yourself, your experiences and your future. When you are feeling low, it can become easier to focus on what is going wrong, dismiss positive experiences and interpret setbacks as evidence that things will not improve.

These thoughts can affect behaviour too. You may withdraw from other people, stop doing activities you previously enjoyed or struggle to find the motivation to do things that might ordinarily make you feel better.

This can create a cycle in which low mood leads to negative thinking and reduced activity, which can then contribute to feeling even lower.

Therapy can help you recognise these patterns and begin developing different ways of thinking and responding.

Creating Positive Changes in Thoughts and Behaviour

Sian combines CBT with clinical hypnotherapy and psychotherapy techniques to provide an approach tailored to you and the difficulties you are experiencing.

CBT can help you identify and challenge overly negative or unhelpful patterns of thinking, while also encouraging practical changes in behaviour that can gradually increase activity, motivation and engagement with everyday life.

Hypnotherapy and psychotherapy techniques may also be incorporated to address underlying emotional patterns, support relaxation and reinforce more constructive ways of thinking about yourself and your experiences.

The aim is to help you develop a more balanced perspective, reconnect with the parts of life that matter to you and feel better equipped to manage periods of low mood.

Depression Therapy in Newcastle & Gosforth

Sian is a Harley Street trained clinical hypnotherapist and experienced CBT therapist providing therapy for depression and low mood in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Face-to-face appointments are available from Peaceful Minds at the Regent Centre in Gosforth, with online appointments also available if you would prefer to receive therapy from home.

If low mood, negative thinking or a lack of motivation is beginning to affect your work, relationships or enjoyment of everyday life, therapy can help you understand the patterns involved and begin taking manageable steps towards positive change.

How We Can Help

Therapy for depression can help you:

• Recognise negative and unhelpful patterns of thinking
• Develop a more balanced perspective on yourself and your experiences
• Address low self-esteem and excessive self-criticism
• Increase motivation and engagement with everyday activities
• Reduce patterns of withdrawal and avoidance
• Develop healthier ways of responding to difficult thoughts and emotions
• Take manageable steps towards improving your emotional wellbeing