Using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) your therapist will help you to make the changes in your behavior that will help you find relief for your depression and increase positive feelings. You will be guided in identifying the source of your sadness, allowing you to change the way you think about things that have happened or are happening to you. With the help of CBT for depression, you can also learn how to challenge some of the catastrophic thinking that may be leading you to your feelings of depression.

WHAT WILL DEPRESSION THERAPY BE LIKE?
Your therapist will offer a safe and supportive space in which to explore your struggle with depression. Together, you will look into the ways in which depression is affecting your life, and together, you will come up with specific goals to achieve throughout your journey.

Once we have a plan that is specifically tailored to your needs, we will start to use a variety of treatment tools based on evidence-based techniques.

In addition to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, our therapists are specifically trained in mindfulness skills for depression. Anxiety is about the fear of the future; depression is usually more about being stuck in the past. Mindfulness will help you learn how to be more present in the moment. You will learn a number of tools to help you be centered in the present and cope with your thoughts and feelings.

We may also use techniques from Somatic therapy, in which we will focus on the way your emotions show up in your body. Going into a “fight or flight” response causes us to hold emotions in our body. Through depression therapy, you will learn how to release them and alleviate your emotions as well as of your physical symptoms.