Depression Counselling in Campbell River, BC.

Many people these days experience depression and yet the severity of the symptoms and impacts on your life can vary greatly. You may want to seek out counselling if you are experiencing some signs of depression such as fatigue, irritability, difficulty sleeping, doing less of the activities you enjoy, weight loss, anxiety, difficultly concentrating and paying attention, or a general unhappiness with your life. Treatment for depression can address the symptoms and also explore what is required to overcome into the future. Benefits for treating depression are limitless and include a greater sense of day to day well-being, enhanced relationships, more job satisfaction, enhanced self esteem.

Depression can be experienced in a magnitude of ways and is often experienced differently by each individual. Symptoms may range from feeling increasingly irritable, experiencing a sense of emptiness and hopelessness, and an individual often will feel completely overwhelmed, losing interest in activities they once enjoyed. Depression may also be experienced physically. Physical symptoms may include, but are not limited to a lack of energy, problems sleeping, pronounced weight changes, and eventually, even serious illness. In cases of mild to moderate depression, there is an increasing amount of research supporting counselling as effective as medication in improving a person’s mood. Many clients have been referred to counselling by their family doctor when...(view profile to read more)

Depression can be experienced in a multitude of ways and often differently by each person. Depression can leave an individual feeling overwhelmed, a loss interested in activities that they used to enjoy, feel a lack of energy, have difficulty sleeping, experienced pronounced weight changes, and even serious illness. You do not have to suffer or feel alone. We will work with you to uncover the elements to your depression and help you to regain enjoyment and satisfaction in your life.

Grey Matters International, Inc. and the work of Kevin J. Fleming, Ph.D. handles depression and other emotional disorders in a very unique way. Most of therapy or counseling processes utilize validation, unconditional positive regard, and reframing as common techniques to get someone to heal from their depression. Though this can be helpful, it rarely fixes the core problem behind it and for tough cases we then refer them usually to a psychiatrist for medication which can have tons of side effects. Instead, why not try a natural and arguably more effective way to not just change your mind, but change the brain--where the depression is rooted. Contact us at kevin@kevinflemingphd.com.

Depression can trick us. Things that normally make us happy, don’t. Our motivation to move forward in our lives seems to have disappeared into an empty pit. Things that made us feel alive feel like a distant memory. We get stuck. But, therapy can help – sometimes in unexpected ways. My approach doesn’t involve spending months figuring out the ‘root’ of the depression, although building insight is an important part of the process. We figure out what’s important to you, learn ways to get ‘un-stuck’ from our thoughts and feelings, and use concrete strategies to get you living again. The difficult part about treatment for depression is that there isn’t going to be a magic, ‘ah hah!’ mom

The psychology part of my biopsychsocial approach to depression is Mindfulness Based Cognitive Behavioural therapy. In cultivating a mindfulness practice we are able to bring our feelings and thought to the present. Since the hallmark of depression is ruminating on our past actions and circumstances, MCBT can help undermine the power of those thoughts on our mental wellness. Through making connections in group care and partnering with yoga studios we can create holistic emotional tool belts to treat depression and prevent the onset of future episodes. I have a passion for working with women with postpartum depression.