Counselling and Mental Health Service

Session will begin promptly. Latecomers will be unable to participate.

One-off workshop

Are you experiencing symptoms of low mood such as tiredness, lethargy, loss of interest, loss of motivation and loss of pleasure? Have you noticed you are finding it hard to engage in certain activities, maybe avoiding work or keeping connected to others? Have you found that, due to recent events, you are experiencing low mood for the first time or your low mood has been exacerbated?

When we experience low mood it is not unusual for cycles of low mood to develop whereby the relationship between how we think, feel and behave can become problematic. These cycles are often understandable but they can prevent us from finding alternative healthier ways of being.

This workshop will help you:

To learn how patterns of behaviour which can dominate when we are feeling low or having difficulties with life can serve to perpetuate our struggles.

To learn about and try components of values led behavioral activation. An evidence based strategy used in the treatment of depression and low mood.

To practice using tools to identify and change unhelpful behavioural patterns. To try out reflective tools to identify activities worth deliberately bringing into our life to increase our sense of pleasure and meaning.

To trouble shoot and consider together problems which may show up when applying this method.

To gain familiarity with a method of applying Behavioural Activation: a clinically evidenced treatment for depression issues, which can be self administered so can be used even if you are not in active therapy