• Marbling depression with non-depression
• Shifting your client’s relationship with depression
• Restoring social connection
• Envisioning a future with possibilities
• Restarting brain growth

Bill O’Hanlon, MS, has been a psychotherapist since 1977. He’s written more than 30 books that have been translated into 16 languages. He’s appeared on Oprah and been featured in national magazines and media.

• Recognize the role of both process and outcome resistance in preventing change
• Use paradoxical agenda setting before assuming that the depressed client is actually seeking change
• Explore methods that intensify the therapist-client alliance and generate deep motivation for full engagement in treatment
• Discover the hidden emotions that underlie depression
• Help clients develop relapse prevention plans

David Burns, M.D., adjunct clinical professor emeritus of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine, was awarded the A.E. Bennett Award for research on brain chemistry. His books include “When Panic Attacks” and “Feeling Good”.

• Reviewing the advantages of therapy vs. meds
• Helping them make new discriminations that shift their perspective on their problems
• Exploring the key role of hypnosis, dissociation, and suggestion in depression treatment
• Learning how to convert global cognitions into a linear flow of steps
• Incorporating homework assignments that promote active learning into your approach

Michael Yapko, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist and marriage and family therapist, is the author of 12 books, including Treating Depression with Hypnosis; Hand-Me-Down Blues: How to Stop Depression; and Breaking the Patterns of Depression.

• Distinguishing cognitive therapy and mindfulness practice
• Teaching them how to use the “3 Minute Breathing Space” and other skills as part of an 8-week group program
• Helping them cultivate choicefulness through meta-cognition and developing both narrow focus and wide-open awareness practices
• Guiding them to prepare a personalized Relapse Prevention Kit
• Developing your own mindfulness practice

Zindel Segal, Ph.D., is head of the Cognitive Behavior Therapy Clinic of the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto.

• Conducting first interviews that not only collect history and data, but generate hope, connection, and goals that guide treatment
• Gathering information about previous treatment that help you avoid dead ends and mistakes
• Understanding that talk isn’t enough and the important role of writing things down, regular follow-up, and between-session homework
• Focusing on small steps in behavioral activation and action plans
• Incorporating a range of methods, including experiential techniques and childhood work, into your cognitive orientation

Judith Beck, Ph.D., is the President of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy in Philadelphia, a nonprofit that trains therapists in cognitive therapy. Her books include Cognitive Therapy for Challenging Problems: What to Do When the Basics Don’t Work and Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders.