Therapy for Depression

Helping you reconnect to yourself when everything feels heavy.

Depression doesn’t always look dramatic.

Sometimes it looks like:

  • Getting through the day, but feeling nothing.

  • Feeling exhausted even when you’ve “done nothing.”

  • Being successful on paper, but empty underneath.

  • Losing motivation for things that used to matter.

  • Feeling like you’re disappointing yourself — or everyone else.

Depression can feel like a quiet dulling of your inner world. Or like a weight that never fully lifts.

If you’re here, something in you knows this isn’t how you want to keep living.

What Depression Can Feel Like

Depression isn’t just sadness.

It can show up as:

  • Persistent low mood

  • Loss of interest or pleasure

  • Irritability or numbness

  • Shame or harsh self-criticism

  • Brain fog or difficulty concentrating

  • Changes in sleep or appetite

  • Feeling disconnected from others

  • A sense that you are “too much” or “not enough”

For many adults, depression is deeply tied to relational patterns — people-pleasing, over-responsibility, suppressed anger, or long-standing self-doubt.

Often, it makes sense once we understand the story beneath it.

Why Depression Happens

Depression isn’t a personal failure. It’s often an intelligent response to:

  • Chronic stress

  • Emotional neglect

  • Unresolved trauma

  • Loss or transition

  • Relationship strain

  • Years of pushing your own needs aside

  • Nervous system overwhelm

In my work, we don’t just treat symptoms.
We gently explore the emotional and relational patterns underneath them.

Because lasting change doesn’t come from “trying harder.”
It comes from understanding yourself more clearly.

How I Approach Depression Therapy

My approach is collaborative, relational, and grounded in evidence-based and experiential methods.

Depending on what you need, we may draw from:

  • Mindfulness-based CBT to work with negative thought patterns

  • Parts work (IFS-informed) to explore inner conflicts and self-criticism

  • Emotion-Focused Therapy techniques to access and process underlying emotions

  • Attachment-focused exploration to understand relational patterns

  • Somatic awareness to reconnect you with your body and nervous system

We move at a pace that feels safe and intentional.

Therapy isn’t about forcing positivity.
It’s about helping you feel more alive, more grounded, and more connected to yourself.

High-Functioning Depression

Many of my clients appear “fine.”

They are competent. Responsible. Reliable.
They show up for others. They get things done.

But internally, they feel:

  • Disconnected

  • Numb

  • Tired of holding everything together

  • Secretly afraid of being found out as not good enough

If that resonates, you’re not alone.
Depression can coexist with achievement.

And you deserve support even if things “look good” from the outside.

What Therapy Can Help With

Through our work together, you can begin to:

  • Reduce the intensity of depressive symptoms

  • Understand and soften harsh self-criticism

  • Reconnect with your needs and emotions

  • Build healthier relational patterns

  • Increase energy and clarity

  • Feel more engaged in your life

Change doesn’t happen overnight — but it does happen.

If You’re Wondering Whether Therapy Is Right for You

You don’t have to be in crisis to seek support.

If you’ve been feeling persistently low, disconnected, or stuck — therapy can help you understand what’s happening and what needs attention.

If what you’ve read resonates, I invite you to book a free consultation to see if working together feels like a good fit.

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