Specialties
Depression Therapy
Depression Can Hide Behind a Life That Looks Fine
You get the work done, the kids where they need to be, the emails answered.
Nobody who sees you would guess what any of it takes.
The things you used to like have gone flat.
You scroll instead, or sleep, or withdraw.
No One Sees How Heavy It Feels
On paper there’s nothing to point at. The job is fine and the people in your life are fine.
That’s part of why you haven’t said much about it to anyone.
What you want is relief, and then to be present in your own life again.
You have a good life and it isn’t reaching you.
The Way Out Starts with Understanding What’s Keeping You Here
Depression arrives by more than one route.
Sometimes it starts as withdrawal that fed itself: you did less, then wanted less, then did less again.
Sometimes it grew out of something older, like grief, trauma, self-criticism, or a belief about yourself you’ve held since you were young.
Which route yours took decides what the work has to reach, so we don’t run one approach for everyone.
Make Space for the Work Beneath the Surface
Behavioral work goes after what depression took off your calendar.
Your clinician helps you name the activities, people, and movement that dropped out, then puts a few back in an order you can manage.
Motivation follows the action here instead of arriving first, so the plan stays small and specific.
Cognitive and behavioral approaches carry most of this, along with mindfulness-based work.
Go Beyond What You’ve Learned to Manage
Exploratory work goes at self-criticism, grief, trauma, relationship patterns, identity, burnout, and longstanding beliefs that keep reinforcing the heaviness. It moves slower, and it asks you to stay with things you’ve spent years managing around.
Psychodynamic and existential therapy, Internal Family Systems, and trauma-focused work including EMDR belong here.
Putting activities back into a week doesn’t reach any of that, which is why these are two genuinely different kinds of work.
If you’ve already been through therapy and medication without enough relief, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy is one direction we’d talk through with you.
Your First Sessions Sort Out Which One You Need
We ask what’s changed, what you’ve stopped doing, and what feels effortful.
And then: what do you miss about yourself?
When the answers describe a life that got smaller, and the self-criticism showed up after the shrinking, we start with behavior. When you’re still doing plenty and the criticism was there long before the energy went, we start with what’s underneath.
Most people need both, and we revisit where we started as we learn more about you.
Your First Signs of Progress Are Quiet Ones
A little more energy than the day before.
You answer someone instead of letting the message sit.
Something you enjoy without pushing yourself into it, and sleep that gets easier.
The voice in your head gets less harsh, and you start wanting things again.
Describe an Ordinary Week to Us
The first conversation covers what your days look like now and what they looked like before this started.
That’s enough for us to begin.
Tell Us Where You’d Like This to Move
You don’t need the whole thing figured out before you write to us.
Some people know exactly which kind of therapy they want. Others know only that something isn’t working anymore, and that’s enough to start with.
Tell us what’s been going on, what you’ve already tried, and what you’d like to feel different. We’ll think it through with you and point you toward the therapist and the approach that fit.
You’ve done plenty of understanding already, and now it’s worth finding out what gets it moving.