Depression Treatment
Does life feel overwhelming right now? Depression can happen to anyone. Your feelings are valid and you are worthy of getting help.If you're not excited about the life you're living and feel like there must be more, depression counseling may help you.
Therapy for depression can help if you are struggling with:
Feelings of sadness, emptiness or hopelessness
Loss of interest in activities, or things that normally bring you pleasure
Constant tiredness and lack of energy
Anxiety, agitation or restlessness
Trouble thinking, concentrating, making decisions and remembering things
Angry outbursts, irritability or frustration, even over small matters
Holistic Depression Treatment
Depression and anxiety often go hand in hand and can impact your whole life – your body, mind, spirit, and relationships. So the treatment needs to benefit a person’s whole life, too.
We can help you address the source of your depression, develop tools and skills to manage your mood, and learn to live with curiosity and self-compassion.
What to expect from Depression Counseling
Many people come to us feeling heavy, overwhelmed, numb and terribly alone. Working with a therapist to create a depression treatment plan can help you feel better now, and lead to a full and satisfying life in the long-term.
After a few sessions of depression counseling, many of our clients report that they have more energy and their thoughts aren’t as dark. They begin to reach out to friends again, start caring about life, and overall become kinder to themselves.
Through the process of depression therapy, you'll find ways to identify negative thought cycles and notice them sooner, in order to get out of your head and back into life.
You may need some courage to process painful experiences from your past, but a therapist can teach you how to manage those feelings without getting overwhelmed by them.
Ultimately, you'll gain the ability to respond to life's challenges and gain a new sense of hope and curiosity about what the future holds for you.
You might have some questions and concerns about depression treatment…
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Dealing with depression often means having a lot of uncomfortable feelings like sadness, irritability, self-doubt and self-criticism. These feelings can be caused by situations, relationship problems, or major life events.
Some people find that they have physical and physiological issues causing depression symptoms. Chronic stress and immune or endocrine system issues can have major impacts on mood.
It is important to not only treat the symptoms, including the emotions, but to also identify and treat the underlying causes of these issues in order to reclaim a sense of well-being.
Our caring and experienced therapists are here to help. Whatever you are feeling, we will support you as you learn to respond to your feelings, rather than react. You will learn to “ride the wave” of your feelings and work with your emotions instead of suppressing or avoiding them.
It feels good to know that you are capable of managing your emotions with self-compassion and skill, and we will help you get there.
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One of the challenges of treating depression is that many people don’t realize that they can feel a whole lot better with depression therapy. While you may not meet the clinical definitions of anxiety or a major depressive disorder, you may experience a chronic, low-grade worry or angst that undermines your everyday well-being.
It’s common to experience short depressive episodes, or have a sense that you are not living the life you’re meant to be living. Perhaps you’re also feeling heavy, burdened, and stressed.
Life can be really hard sometimes, and it’s easy to get overwhelmed. When that happens, you may begin to feel isolated and alone, which makes it difficult to find your way to happiness.
You don’t have to cope with depression alone.
Depression counseling can get you out of the cycle of self-criticism and blame and get back to living the life you want to live. We can help you move from problems to possibilities.
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There is a paradox here: letting things come up and out actually brings a sense of relief, especially when you have a compassionate and non-judgmental therapist to guide you. What’s more, we won't push you to go faster than you are ready to go, so you never have to discuss anything you’re not comfortable with.
Depression Treatment with Four Corners Counseling & Well-Being can help you calm your inner critic and strengthen your sense of Self.
Depression is a whole-body response to intense stressors in life. While it can feel like depression is keeping us from living life to the fullest, sometimes the ways we try to suppress or avoid our depressive symptoms can get in the way of returning to a full and vibrant life.
What is your deepest desire for yourself?
We can help you get there; your life and your focus can shift from problems to possibilities and you can begin to thrive in all parts of your life: mind, body, spirit and relationships.
Our entire team is here to support you, if you are suffering from from anxiety and depression.
Through practical tools and evidence-based therapy, including internal family systems, we help you gain a clear sense of how your mood state shifts into depression and why.
You will learn mindfulness practices and specific techniques you can use each day to minimize triggers and increase your positive experiences.
You will establish long-lasting ways to reduce your suffering and build resilience and well-being.
Once you learn these simple yet profound concepts and skills, your relationship with yourself and with your depression will fundamentally shift.
Ready to get started?
To begin the healing process, call us at 301-960-8960 for a short chat with our Client Care Coordinator, who is available weekdays from 9 AM to 5 PM. You can also fill out the contact form and we will get back to you.
If you are experiencing a mental health crisis, thinking about suicide, or in immediate danger, please take action right away:
Call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room.
Call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (available 24/7 nationwide).
Call 211 and press 1 to reach the Maryland Crisis Hotline (available 24/7 for local Maryland support).
Text HOME to 741741 to connect with the Crisis Text Line.
There’s a way of breathing that’s a shame and a suffocation and
there’s another way of expiring, a love breath, that lets you open infinitely.
- Rumi, 13th-century Persian poet, theologian, and mystic
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