Hope for Treatment-Resistant Depression – Janina Fisher

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The very nature of depression often thwarts efforts to treat it. After all, it’s difficult to change when you have no energy, no hope, and no capacity to concentrate. How can we challenge these chronic states?

Using interventions from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, this workshop recording will introduce ways to help clients relate to their depressive symptoms mindfully, rather than identifying with them, and to manage physical symptoms through changes in posture, breath, and energy.

1. Explain depression as a somatic state, not just a psychological state in a clinical setting. 
2. Identify cognitive schemas that reinforce depressive states. 
3. Describe a Sensorimotor Psychotherapy approach to understanding depression. 
4. Identify body-centered interventions that increase energy and focus in depressed clients. 
5. Experiment with Sensorimotor interventions that counter depressive beliefs. 

What is “Major Depression”?

• The neurobiology of depression
• How biological depression becomes psychological

Depression as a Cognitive Schemas

• What happens when we put words to a depressive state
• How cognitive schemas reinforce depression

Introduction to Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

• Basic principles
• Fundamental techniques

Sensorimotor Interventions for Treating Depression

• Resources for increasing energy and mood
• Movement, a somatic approach to negative cognitions

Depression and the Therapeutic Relationship

• Contagion effects of depression
• Making use of the social engagement system