Therapy for Depression

Life doesn’t look or feel the way you want it to.

Find hope by lifting the weight of sadness.

We understand what depression is like:

Has it been a long time since you felt optimistic about your life? Do you find it hard to enjoy yourself, laugh, or be present in the moment? You spend most of your time wanting things to feel better than they do. You may have noticed significant or extended changes in your eating or sleeping habits or difficulty concentrating. Sometimes, finding the motivation to get basic tasks done feels like a struggle that goes on for days or weeks. Depression can take many different forms. It's a myth that everyone who is depressed is curled up in a ball, crying.

You can be depressed and still do what you usually would, but inside, you might feel like you're drowning in your emotions. 

What it’s like to work with us:

Being in therapy to address depressive symptoms can help you learn ways to navigate your emotions. You can start to identify and process experiences that have impacted you emotionally, such as stress or trauma. Talking to a therapist can give you the space to express and deal with your feelings so that they don’t continue to interfere with your life and your relationships. It can help to improve how you relate to yourself and other people and help you find ways to communicate to them what you are going through and when you need support. You can learn to live life without depression, your thoughts or emotions being in control.

How we can help you with depression:

Your therapist will use an eclectic approach to help you with your depressive symptoms. Treatment may include talk therapy and processes like Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) or Internal Family Systems (IFS). These therapies can help you recognize what, if any, specific beliefs or past experiences like grief, loss, and even inter-generational and racial trauma are impacting your current emotions. Therapy offers a place to receive support and help to reframe unhelpful beliefs that contribute to depression and unwarranted feelings of shame or guilt.

Therapy can help you:

  • Improve your ability to enjoy your life

  • Be more aware of your emotions

  • Do things that are meaningful to you 

  • Process and heal from past experiences that are connected to your depression

  • Recognize how depression is impacting you and ways to take back control

Let us help you feel good about your life and stop depression from keeping you down!

FAQs

  • There can be both mental and physical signs of depression. Physically, you may experience fatigue, low energy, poor sleep, and poor concentration. You may feel sad or down most of the day or more days than not and even find yourself crying or tearful for no reason. If you have depression, you may also experience inconsistent moods, feelings of hopelessness, and even unexplainable periods of emotional highs and lows. Your behavior seems different than usual and lasts for hours or even days. Some people also experience thoughts of harming themselves or having suicidal thoughts or plans. Many people experience depression but can still go to work, take care of their families, and do other things even while they struggle with managing their emotions.

  • Different depression diagnoses include Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Persistent Affective Mood disorder, and (Perinatal) Postpartum Depression. Depression symptoms in women, men, and teens sometimes look slightly different. Still, to figure out the kind of depression you have, a therapist would need to evaluate and work with you to understand the symptoms you are experiencing, how long it has been going on, and how it's affecting you. In most cases, the focus of therapy will be to help you learn how to handle complex thoughts and emotions so that they no longer stop you from living life fully.

  • Working with a therapist can help you learn how to understand your emotions better and handle them so that they don't take over and interfere with your life. Part of therapy is knowing what might be contributing to your depression and working on addressing those concerns, including dealing with experiences of trauma. You can also learn to recognize what situations or thoughts might trigger your depression and what steps you can take to help prevent your depressive symptoms from returning. Medication can also help manage some forms of depression symptoms. Your therapist can help connect you with a medication prescriber who can offer additional treatment.