Depression Therapy

Feeling “flat”. Being “empty”. The sense of a giant boulder sitting right on your chest – you can’t breathe, you can’t move. Like it sucks the life out of you, saps your energy, and deflates your motivation.

It shows up in the body too. Not wanting to eat or eating for comfort, not sleeping or sleeping all day because you’re just wrung out.

Part of why depression is so hard to catch is that it often comes on gradually. You don’t clock that something’s off. It just becomes the norm. It turns into “This is just how I feel. This is just who I am.”, and people get good at hiding it from everyone around them (and even from themselves). You put on the mask, you go to work, maybe you still get the job done, and then go home and crash.

Depression therapy is how to stop carrying it alone and learn to manage and overcome it.

• Folks who feel flat, empty, or weighed down most days
• Anyone who’s lost interest in what used to bring them pleasure
• If your sleep or appetite has swung hard in either direction
• Those running on numbness, or staying frantically busy to outrun it
• People who’ve worn a mask so long they’re not sure who’s left
• Anyone whose depression is tangled up with anxiety or grief

Sometimes just saying “it’s too heavy” out loud is enough to start sorting it out. Depression rarely travels alone. Anxiety and grief often feed into Depression, and it feeds them right back. Part of our job is to sit down with you and listen and help you detangle and prioritize where to start.

We’re also big fans of getting functional as quickly as possible. We work toward getting you back to real-life, the way you want to, as soon as we can.

It also means going deep. The deeper you go, the lighter the weight feels, until there’s room to look at what’s underneath and build a life that holds meaning again.

Available in person or by telehealth.

You’re across from a person who feels hopeless and doesn’t feel like they can take the small actions you’re gently suggesting.

And so we help you hold it and carry it, until you can carry it yourself. And when that happens – the depression starts to lift.

It’s one of the things we find ourselves saying again and again: this is going to change, it won’t always be this way. We may not know whether that’s tomorrow or a year from now, but we keep working through it together, helping you get the most out of your life until it does.