Depression Counselling in West Point Grey, BC.

Life presents us with difficult challenges that can lead to feelings of depression and despair. I will work with you to understand your story and the depression you're experiencing. From there, we can make a plan to re-engage you in your life by incorporating people, activities, and practices to help you reconnect to joy and fulfilment. I will walk alongside you and support you throughout the process.

Feeling overwhelmed, hopeless, or constantly tired? Are you struggling with a sadness that won't lift, losing interest in things you once loved, or trapped in a cycle of negative thoughts? I get it. Depression is tough. But with the right support, you can find joy again, rediscover motivation, and build resilience. As a clinical counsellor, I'm here to help you reclaim your life with compassionate, results-oriented therapy using proven techniques. Let’s take this journey together. Book your free 15-minute phone consultation today and start moving towards a brighter, more empowered future.

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 deeply painful, robbing you of energy, motivation, and hope. It creates a negative view of life, your self, and your future. It typically disrupts sleep patterns, appetite, emotions, and your thinking ability. I use the clinical practice of cognitive behavioural therapy to help people regain healthy control over their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and reclaim a sense of influence over their life style and life situation's. Coaching you to refocus, set small daily goals, celebrate your successes, and learn new behavioral and thinking skills can take time but the good news is that once you have acquired these skills you have them for life.

Depression makes even the simplest tasks feel impossible, but you don’t have to battle it alone. If you're feeling lost, exhausted, or disconnected from the things you once loved, I can help. Together, we will uncover the patterns keeping you stuck, find relief from emotional pain, and help you regain control over your life. There is a path forward, and I will help you take that first step. You deserve to feel better.

Depression is a state of mind that effects most people at some point in our lives. Often, symptoms of depression include a loss of interest in things that once made us happy, sleep disturbance or abundance, change in appetite, and dark thoughts. People can experience depression for many many reasons including postpartum depression, situational, relationship loss or difficulties, loneliness, seasonal affective disorder, teen depression,isolation and many more reasons. There are many treatments for depression, beginning with talking to someone about your experience. In some cases, talking to your doctor about medication helps combined with therapy to help deal with the sadness.

I can help you explore feelings that you may not be aware of. I can help you understand how your behavior and mood can be affected by unresolved issues from your past or present. Some depression symptoms may be low self-esteem, fatigue, feelings of worthlessness, changes in sleep, and feelings of loneliness. I offer counselling that will help you understand and work through difficult relationships or situations that may be causing or contributing to your depression. I encourage you to talk through your feelings in order to make positive change in your life.

Depression can be a very difficult barrier in someone’s life. It can keep them from feeling happy and hopeful, and can impact their every day relationships. We use CBT, DBT or EMDR therapy to help process feelings, as well as learn a new ways of healthy coping. We work together with the client to find new ways of helping them feel better and live the life that they want.

I view depression as an internal system of parts in conflict, with exiled parts holding painful emotions and protective parts trying to manage or avoid the pain. When this happens, it's normal to feel disconnected from yourself and others, unable to make progress or find relief because these parts are all working at cross-purposes. Therapy helps you to foster compassion for these parts, heal the underlying trauma, and unburden the emotional weight, leading to more internal harmony and relief from depression.

When stress builds up, it can leave a person feeling overwhelmed, sad or even depressed. Whether you are trying to cope with mild, moderate or severe depression, Counselling can help. Having opportunities to share your feelings and work together to build on your strengths is my goal as a Registered Clinical Counsellor. I work with children, youth and adults who are suffering from depression. Talk Therapy coupled with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy can help alleviate symptoms, and help clients feel more in control of their emotions, thoughts and actions. I want to help my clients to learn strategies and provide "tools" in order to fight back against depression. You deserve to feel happy!

Depression is a mood disorder that can cause a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest that can interfere with daily functioning. Reaching out for help is a step towards wellness. Symptoms of depression can vary from person to person, but it is a very treatable condition. Therapy for depression helps you overcome the feelings of hopelessness and despair and to gain control of your life.

Therapy is a place for all matters of the heart, body and soul. Depression can range from mild to completely disabling, and the root causes varied and individual. While medical support can be helpful, therapy can help us get to the root of what we are emotionally 'depressing'. I believe in the mind/body connection which includes both, helping a client to access practical tools for coping day to day as well as exploring the deeper emotions stored in the body that might be contributing to the depression. From a deeply compassionate and client centred approach within the therapeutic connection the client feels less alone offering them hope as they navigate their depression.

Are you struggling to get out of bed, losing interest in once-loved activities or feeling helpless and hopeless? The lethargic and foggy shutdown of depression can make everything in life feel just a few inches out of reach. The good news is that depression is readily treatable. I would be glad to help you explore what is keeping your body stuck in numb disconnection. Next, we form a plan to help you back to your best self. Together we tackle here-and-now symptoms with strategies of mindfulness and CBT, while also untying old knots from the past with emotion-focused and inner-child work. The heaviness of depression is your body asking for care. Are you ready to answer its call?

Within an empathetic, safe and trusting relationship and environment, I will help explore the roots of your depression and educate about the various effects it has on ones psychical and psychological self. We will work together at providing you with whatever you might need to better cope with your depression or even alleviate it. I have implemented many mindfully based interventions which can help my clients gain a better sense of self, calm and relaxation, which can significantly help them cope with their current mental state.

I use CBT to help clients struggling with depression. I'll ask questions to help you identify the thought and behaviour patterns that are keeping you unmotivated and depressed. Together we'll identify the specific factors contributing to your depressive symptoms and create a tailored plan to address them and help you move towards the life you want. Each week I'll give you small manageable homework tasks to complete and help you to notice the successes along the way so you will be encouraged to stay on the path of recovery. I'd be honoured to travel with you on your journey.

Depression is often misunderstood as simply sadness, worse as self-indulgence. But this is far from the truth. People do not chose to be depressed. Symptoms of depression can include feelings of guilt, anger (at themselves or others), apathy, helplessness or agitation. My approach to help you deal with your depression includes cognitive therapy, building up self confidence, improving communication skills as well as looking at the underlying causes of depression from childhood or present situation. My role as a therapist is to act as a guide to lead you out of the darkness into clarity and hope

You are feeling very depressed, unmotivated, hopeless or stuck. You want to free yourself from the vortex of depression. EMDR therapy and hypnotherapy are very powerful tools used to help you break free from your depression. You can start to feel joy, hope and excitement again! You feel motivated and become more engaged in life. You begin to feel better about yourself and the world around you! EMDR and hypnotherapy help you look at the root causes of your depression. These methods facilitate the release of buried emotions such as shame, guilt, worthlessness or resentment. They both help you change your mindset, then change your life! Visit www.quynle.com

Is getting out of bed becoming to be the hardest accomplishment of your day? Do you feel irritated and or unsociable? Are you unproductive in your relationships or at work? How about eating...are you eating too much or too little? Do you just not care anymore? What if I told you that you don't have to feel this way? What if I told you that your life could be turned around quickly, and often painlessly. Lets work on it together, piece by piece - you don't have to do this alone. Depression is often caused by thoughts you have that you have learned to listen to, and have come overtime to believe. Lets take a look at those thoughts together, and see if we can't gain a new prospective!

I help client with depressive symptoms by listening and validating their experience and helping them change their negative self talk. This negative self talk that clients experience are contributing to their feelings of depression. I use a technique called cognitive behavioural therapy to help clients release their depressive symptoms. By creating a safe enviornment to talk about their concerns healing and change occurs through the counselling relationship. Dealing with your depression will allow you to have a happy life.

If depression could speak, it would say "why bother?" Depression leaves us feeling unmotivated, hopeless, and negative about ourselves and our potential. In counselling, I provide a compassion-focused approach to treating depression that will help you to increase your sense self-worth and build motivation to mobilize yourself. I believe that when treating depression, it is essential to explore emotions such as anger, guilt and shame that often perpetuate a defeated and empty state. Doing so can feel uncomfortable, but is ultimately liberating. Many of my depressed - even suicidal - clients report that therapy has helped improve their mood and take meaningful action in their lives.

Research tells us that depression is the most treatable mental health issue. I am passionate about conceptualizing depression as a symptom instead of root problem. Depression is a normal response to things like painful life experiences, suppressed emotion, attachment trauma, abuse, complicated grief, loss of self-efficacy. Re-establishing connection to ourselves (i.e., our inner worlds), our bodies, important relationships, spirituality, meaningful work in life, etc., have all been shown to lead to a significant decrease in depressive symptoms. Savoring positive emotional experiences, and being relentless in the search for hope, are things I partner with my clients to do.

Depression is now the number one cause of suffering in the world today (World Health Organization Statistics). Each person's story is different and there is no "one size fits all" when it comes to treating depression, depending upon the severity of symptoms. I assess and offer practical tools as well as create a safe and secure place and environment for people to come and talk to me about things that they may not tell anyone else because of the shame and stigma of depression. I am trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy as well as a number of other therapeutic techniques which have been proven to help with depression.

Different therapeutic modalities can be used to examine thought patterns and your ability to emotionally regulate; an open dialogue can help explore alternative beliefs and perspectives that may serve you better. A closer examination of how your thoughts, feelings and actions are impacting your overall wellbeing can help create a treatment approach that may include coping skills and lifestyle adjustments, while building capacity to sit with negative emotions and move through challenging times.

Benefits of Depression, Trauma Counselling with me: * Acquire a better understanding of Depression or Trauma * Express yourself Verbally and Emotionally * Reduce, Manage, or Defeat your thoughts and behaviours * Improve your Communication skills * Regain your Freedom, Happiness and life * Discover what triggers you and how it affects you * Improve your self-Esteem and Confidence * Acquire the skill to recognize unhealthy behaviours * Apply the tools to change them * Implement realistic Goals * Explore your behaviour and what motivates it * Learn how to manage or prevent recurrent episodes * Minimize or Eliminate your fears

Depression is extremely complex - at times it can completely turn your life upside down and rob you of any joy or happiness that you previously felt. Yet other times it can also show up in more subtle ways throughout your life, almost unknowingly at first. Every person is different but one commonality with depression is that it can make you feel incredibly alone and self-deprecating. Isolation feeds depression and hinders our functioning. My aim is to create a compassionate relationship so that you don’t feel alone. I’ll offer empathy and kindness while we gently work as a team to find what works for you in your journey towards a healthier mind.