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Neuropsychotherapy and Trauma InterventionsOriginally trained as a neuroscientist, Dr. Jennifer Sweeton is a Stanford-educated clinical and forensic psychologist specializing in trauma treatment and the neuroscience of mental health. -
PTSD Relief TherapyInternationally-renowned PTSD researcher and clinician, founder of the Boston Trauma Centre and professor of Psychiatry at Boston University Medical School. -
CBT for DepressionDr. Nina Josefowitz has over thirty years’ experience as a CBT therapist and teacher and is the author of CBT Made Simple. -
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Sibling Issues in TherapyProfessor Avidan Milevsky incorporates the latest research and clinical work in family dynamics to examine multiple angles of integrating sibling issues in therapy -
NLP TrainingInternationally acclaimed mind coach, hypnotherapist and bestselling author whose work centres on the principles of neuro linguistic programming (NLP) -
EMDR Training 2Clinical psychologist, international speaker & best-selling author introduces EMDR therapy skills for working with PTSD and trauma. -
Anxiety and Worry TherapyDr Jennifer Abel provides proven therapeutic techniques to help your clients work through the spiral of anxiety and successfully face their fears -
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Sensorimotor PsychotherapyInternationally-renowned psychotherapist, 40 years’ experience integrating the mind and body, offers relief and a new way of living in our body. -
Hypnosis For Pain Relief TrainingWorld-renowned clinical psychologist and professor with over 30 years' experience using hypnosis for pain control offers a step-by-step guide to using hypnosis to enhance your clinical practice. -
Advanced Trauma Therapy TrainingWorld-renowned trauma clinical psychologist and clinician with over 30 years’ experience helping survivors to accept and love their wounded selves. -
Childhood Sexual AbuseForensic Psychologist Dr Tarra Bates-Duford offers expert therapy approaches for treating survivors of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) -
Anxiety Relief TreatmentClinical psychologist, researcher and expert in behavioural treatment for phobias, provides dynamic treatment and relief from anxiety. -
ACT Therapy TrainingLearn the advantages and benefits of implementing Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) into your clinical practice with Dr John Boorman, UK clinical psychologist and ACT Therapy Specialist. -
Divorcing: Parents & KidsInternationally-acclaimed clinical psychologist, professor at Harvard University, McLean Hospital and clinician with over 30 years’ experience working with high-conflict couples. -
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Conflict in RelationshipsInternationally-acclaimed clinical psychologist, professor at Harvard University, McLean Hospital and clinician with over 30 years’ experience working with high-conflict couples.
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Emotional RegulationClinical psychologist with over 20 years’ experience helping people manage out of control emotions, irrationality, feelings of hopelessness and distress.
You’ve come through a depressive episode—congratulations! But maintaining your well-being requires proactive care. In this insightful session, Dr. Lauren Axelsen explores the vital steps to prevent depression from returning. Using your personal experiences and self-awareness, you’ll learn to craft a tailored relapse prevention plan that prepares you for any early warning signs. Dr. Axelsen shares effective strategies, practical techniques, and actionable skills to strengthen your resilience, helping you navigate challenges before they escalate. Empower yourself to maintain stability, protect your mental health, and continue moving forward with confidence and hope.
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ALL SESSIONS IN THIS MODULE: Depression Relief Therapy
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Understanding Your Depression
Understand depression with Dr. Lauren Axelsen as she outlines its varied symptoms—physical, behavioral, cognitive, and emotional. Learn to identify depression, explore how CBT can treat it, and discover the three levels of thought that help shift negative beliefs, reduce emotional distress, and approach life and challenges with clarity.
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Monitoring Your Depression
Learn to monitor your depression effectively with Dr. Lauren Axelsen. Move beyond arbitrary 1–10 mood ratings and create meaningful, experience-based mood trackers. This session provides practical strategies to track your week, observe patterns, and compare progress, empowering you to gain insight, measure improvement, and take informed steps toward recovery.
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Goal Setting For Your Recovery
Confront depression with clarity and purpose in this session with Dr. Lauren Axelsen. Learn to identify key problems, set achievable behavioral goals using CBT, and prioritize effectively. Develop a personalized problem list, monitor progress, and gain actionable strategies to manage challenges, track improvements, and regain control over your mental well-being.
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Reactivating Your Life
Boost your mood with Dr. Lauren Axelsen through behavioral activation. Learn how to schedule achievable, meaningful activities into your week, even when depression makes everything feel like a struggle. Discover three types of activities that lift mood, break the cycle of withdrawal, and help you regain enjoyment and purpose.
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Healthy Sleep Routines
Understand and manage sleep challenges with Dr. Lauren Axelsen. Explore insomnia and hypersomnia, learn why healthy sleep routines are essential, and discover practical techniques to recharge your body clock. This session also covers ways to boost daytime serotonin, helping you sleep better, restore energy, and support overall mental well-being.
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Capturing Your Automatic Thoughts
Identify and manage negative thoughts with Dr. Lauren Axelsen. Learn to capture automatic thoughts, recognize them as depressive symptoms, and evaluate them objectively. Using tools like thought logs, the ABC model, and depressive thought categories, this session empowers you to understand your mind, reduce distress, and respond to thoughts with clarity.
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Challenging Your Automatic Thoughts
Learn to challenge your automatic thoughts with Dr. Lauren Axelsen. Discover how to put distressing thoughts “on trial,” develop evidence-based alternative perspectives, and reduce self-critical thinking. This session equips you with practical strategies to think more clearly, objectively, and rationally, helping to lower emotional distress and foster mental clarity.
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Grief and Guilt
Explore how grief and guilt can trigger depression with Dr. Lauren Axelsen. Learn to distinguish self-blame from depressive thinking and use techniques like responsibility reattribution to shift unhelpful thoughts. Gain practical strategies to capture automatic thoughts, manage retrospect bias, and navigate grief and guilt in a healthy, constructive way.
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Unhelpful Predictions
Dive deeper into your thinking patterns with Dr. Lauren Axelsen. This session explores the assumptions and rules that shape behavior and maintain depression. Learn to identify, evaluate, and challenge intermediate-level thoughts, creating balanced perspectives and long-lasting change for emotional well-being and resilience.
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Perpetuating Behaviour
Uncover the hidden behaviours that keep depression and anxiety alive with Dr. Lauren Axelsen. Learn to identify perpetuating and safety behaviours that provide short-term protection but prolong distress. Gain practical strategies to confront discomfort, challenge unhelpful beliefs, and break cycles that hold you back from emotional freedom and recovery.
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Behavioural Experiment
In this session, Dr Lauren Axelsen shows us how to challenge our stubborn assumptions and rules by using a behavioural experiment. She walks us through a step-by-step process to design a good experiment to test our beliefs that we are having difficulty shifting.
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Identifying Your Core Beliefs
Explore the foundation of depression with Dr. Lauren Axelsen as she examines core beliefs. Learn to identify your own, understand how negative beliefs take hold, and connect previous skills—capturing automatic thoughts and behavioral experiments—to prepare for confronting and reshaping these beliefs for lasting mental health and resilience.
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Challenging Your Core Beliefs
Learn to confront and transform negative core beliefs with Dr. Lauren Axelsen. This session offers practical techniques to examine beliefs objectively, question their validity, and nurture positive core beliefs. Build self-worth, challenge depression, and equip yourself with the tools to rise stronger, more resilient, and emotionally empowered.
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Positive Data Logs
Celebrate your progress and strengthen your new core beliefs with Dr. Lauren Axelsen. Learn how to create positive data logs, collect meaningful evidence, and align with your values. This session equips you with practical tools to reinforce healthy beliefs and live a more fulfilling, purposeful, and resilient life.
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Emotional Tolerance
Emotions are natural—and manageable. Join Dr. Lauren Axelsen as she explains primary and secondary emotions, emotional regulators, and how they shape our experiences. Learn practical strategies, including a short guided meditation, to ease anxiety, tolerate distressing emotions, and gain control over emotional arousal, empowering you to respond rather than react.
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Self-Compassion
Discover the power of self-compassion with Dr. Lauren Axelsen. Learn what self-compassion truly is, how it differs from self-criticism, and why it matters for depression and low self-esteem. Gain practical skills to soothe and support yourself, reduce emotional distress, and cultivate a kinder, more nurturing inner voice.
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Suicide Safety Planning
During moments of crisis, clarity and safety matter. Dr Lauren Axelsen guides participants in creating a compassionate, practical safety plan, explaining suicidal thoughts as symptoms of depression. Learn to distinguish passive and active thoughts, make protective commitments, and remember that crises—and these thoughts—do pass with reassurance, hope, structure, support, care.
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Relapse Prevention « you are here
Celebrate your progress and safeguard your well-being! Join Dr. Lauren Axelsen as she guides you through creating a personalized relapse prevention plan. Learn practical strategies, skills, and techniques to recognize early signs and stay resilient, ensuring you maintain your mental health and thrive even after depression.
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