We offer therapy services for people with depression.

Depression can take different forms. There is depression that may feel more obvious to many people. The kind that makes you stay in bed, changes your appetite and makes you isolate from other people. There is another kind of depression that can feel a little “foggy.” You work, you eat, you exercise, you socialize yet you can struggle with an inner feeling of emptiness. You may struggle with your day to day life when you don’t have something to look forward to - like a trip, or a social event. You seek out things to look forward to because the day to day life feels dull and unfulfilling. You may have various relationships, but you don’t feel seen, known or heard by the people in your life.

There is another kind of depression that looks like the opposite. A person may socialize frequently, go out to party, make money and spend more money, and travel at any opportunity. To others, it can look like this person is living life fully. But it’s possible that one may use all of this to distract from a deep inner pain, and determined not to submit to it. This can be depression, too.

Life transitions can bring about depression. While changes can be exciting and appropriate to development, they can often involve loss. Graduating undergrad or grad school, leaving a job, moving cities or even apartments. This can signify beginnings but also endings. This can bring about a depression that can be unexpected.

An aspect of the way we work with depression is to first explore how one is experiencing their symptoms. We also try to understand how the depression can connect to someone’s history. Ultimately, the way we work with depression is to connect with a range of emotional experiences — so all emotions just don’t feel like depression, but that a person can connect with a range of different feelings. Within depression, we often make contact with anger. Anger is ordinary and healthy, but it can be scary for people to acknowledge their anger. The expression of anger and grief in the safety of the therapist room is often the pathway to depression relief.

Do you connect with anything you are reading here about depression? Please ask whatever questions you like. You can schedule your free consult by following this link.