Depression Counselling in Oak Ridges, ON.

I will help you to uncover what is getting in the way of living your optimal life and to build new skills to manage it. Through the use of acceptance and mindfulness strategies, I help clients to be fully present in the moment and to accept otherwise negative emotions. Commitment and behavior change strategies help clients to change or persist in behaviors more in line with their own values. Used together these strategies increase client’s psychological flexibility.

The combination of schema therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is an effective approach to dealing with depression. The CBT aspect of the therapy provides insight into HOW depression affects our lives. The schema portion of the therapy addresses the question of WHY depression exists in our lives. The therapy is comprehensive and intense and I encourage you to give it a try.

Each New Leaf Psychology Centre associate has experience offering therapy for depression. Therapy can help you feel less depressed, engage more fully in life, and feel more optimistically about your future. Ms. Saliba specializes in providing therapy for youth who are depressed and engage in risky behaviors such as self-harm. Dr. Gilani specializes in depression related to pain, physical disabilities, and injury.

My approach to depression counselling is rooted in compassion, collaboration, and evidence-based practices tailored to each client’s unique experience. I provide a safe, nonjudgmental space where individuals can openly explore their emotions, identify negative thought patterns, and build healthier coping strategies. By integrating techniques from cognitive-behavioural therapy, mindfulness, and person-centered approaches, I help clients uncover the root causes of their depression while empowering them to regain control over their lives. Clients benefit from ongoing support and a strong, trusting therapeutic relationship.

Depression can leave you debilitated. The hopelessness, heaviness and anxiousness you feel can make everyday tasks feel impossible. It can impact your relationships and overall quality of life. Therapy with me means up-regulating you and your nervous system. I supported you with a mind-body approach to get you activated. Let's connect to get you back to feeling like yourself.

Depression is different from ordinary sadness. With sadness, the person experiences a negative event, cries, and grieves over what happened. Afterward, the person feels a little bit better. Depression, on the other hand, occurs when the person falls into a pattern of negative thinking and inactivity. It is associated with feelings of hopelessness and helplessness. After an episode of depression the person does not feel any better. Treatment of depression largely involves teaching people skills to identify and modify negative thinking patterns; reversing withdrawal from activities; finding ways of managing or solving life problems; developing acceptance for things that cannot be changed.

With the fast pace and challenges of life, you do not have to face them alone. Sometimes you need a helping hand and a friendly ear to talk to. It's my passion to help people. I offer counselling and psychotherapy for individuals, couples and families. I work with clients to improve their resiliency, and uncover their strengths using a client centered approach and different modalities to meet needs .

Depression is a sadness that accompanies us wherever we go stealing our experience of happiness and joy. Others often do not understand that depression has changed our vision of a colorful, vibrant world to one of varying shades of gray. Depression can make tasks that were once completed without much thought like taking a shower, brushing one's teeth, or even getting out of bed, feel like an overwhelming challenge. Activities and people that we once enjoyed, no longer bring pleasure. "Why can't I just snap out of it?!" I use an integrative approach to therapy providing an empathetic, supportive dynamic to empower you to change your emotional experience of life.

Depression can make your body feel heavy and tired. You are likely unmotivated, sad most of the time, and see little hope. I want to hear your story and what led you to this point. Let's start there. Then we can start creating a path forward. There is always a path, no matter how hopeless it may seem. As a reminder, you are not broken and there is nothing wrong with you. Healing and freedom are just around the corner.

Depression is a complex disorder in which an individual experiences enduring symptoms including feeling down, insomnia, fatigue, headaches and even thoughts of suicide. Though it has negative affects on the way an individual feels, thinks and behaves, it is treatable. Through the use of cognitive behavioural therapy along with talk therapy techniques, they help by positively guiding thought processes, emotions and behaviors by focusing the attention on how to alter these factors for a hopeful and encouraging state of mind.

Depression can make even the simplest tasks feel heavy, and it often convinces you that you’re alone in it. In our work together, you won’t be met with judgment or pressure - but with compassion, curiosity, and space to make sense of what you’re feeling. Clients often tell me they feel more understood, less isolated, and better able to reconnect with parts of themselves they thought were lost. Therapy can help lift the fog and make room for hope, energy, and purpose again - at a pace that feels right for you.

Depression shows itself in many ways from losing interest in many things, losing your appetite, low self-esteem, having difficulty making decisions, and many other ways. Kindred Hope Wellness' team will help you navigate through these challenges and support you in your journey to overcome depression. You will benefit from a compassion and empathetic approach that involves techniques, such as narrative therapy and mindfulness. Words have a surprising amount of power, so let's try to rewrite your story and move forward at whatever speed suits you.

Depression not only affects your mood state, but also your -- *behavior, *the way you look at yourself, *relationship with people around you and *physical and organic function. Gestalt therapy emphasizes your capacity to develop your potential. In therapy with me change will take place through the relational experience, and increased awareness, this process, is what gives meaning to discovery to you. In Gestalt therapy, what is considered is your totality, a combination of your sensorial, affective, intellectual, social, and spiritual dimensions (Brownell, 2010). Studies show that the patients treated with Gestalt demonstrated fewer depressive symptoms following the intervention.