Depression Management

Does life feel hard to do and you’re not sure why? Do you find yourself feeling more sad and withdrawn? Are daily tasks or relationships more exhausting than usual?

I’m here to help you feel more connect and engaged in your life.

Do you ever?

  • Feel more sluggish, exhausted or drained?

  • Find yourself more easily irritated and angry with others?

  • Struggle to remain on task and are more distracted?

  • Spend less time outside and more time isolating or in bed?

  • Believe you are a burden to your loved ones?

  • Wish you could return to when things felt more easy to manage?

Whether this is your first experience with depression, or a life long struggle, I am here to provide a safe space to explore these feelings without judgement and create small, achievable goals to get you back to feeling like you.

Skills we will utilize together:

  • Focus on your emotions and beliefs about yourself; understanding your core self or “ego”.

  • Notice patterns within your family and relationships, exploring the roles within these dynamics and where these parts/roles come from.

  • Look at pattern’s in your life today and how it has roots in your early childhood experiences

  • Establish and reinforce coping strategies to help you cope with day to day stresses.

  • Set small, achievable goals to help you get back to feeling like yourself.

FAQs

  • The treatment for depression is often similar to how we would treat anxiety. We would explore patterns using the same kinds of questions, pulling from the same types of coping skills, and doing this all with as little judgement for yourself as possible

  • I can’t promise that depression will just disappear once our work begins. But I can assure you that you will be met with openness and lack of judgement as we work on helping you feel more and more in control of your depression and more capable of feeling joy.

  • Not necessarily. We can experience depression as a symptom of surviving a trauma, or going through a difficult life change and/or loss. Through our work we will explore how you feel depression and make treatment goals according to your personal experience and needs.