Depression treatment using psychotherapy to address the root causes of depression and provide mental health support to live a more fulfilled life.
Depression or depressed feelings can come from biological or psychological causes. Depression is a signal our body sends to let us know that the situation we are in does not feel life-giving. There are many ways that life can feel meaningless.
In our therapy for depression sessions, we help you learn how to build a healthy relationship with your depressed experience, seeking to identify what is not life giving in your situation. We use tools to help you interact with your depressed feelings and environment meaningfully and practically.
Understanding your experience of depression is an important step in depression therapy. This means exploring your experience of depression to better understand what is going on exactly. This informs our depression treatment.
One way of addressing depression in therapy is to build a relationship with feelings of depression. In this type of depression therapy, we include:
Depression or depressed feelings can come from biological causes, or from psychological ones. Depression can be a signal our body sends to let us know that the situation we’re in does not feel life-giving. Clinical depression includes feeling a depressed mood for more than a couple of weeks and having a number of depression symptoms. Check out the Canadian Psychological Association’s fact sheets for more information.
Clinical depression includes depressed mood for more than a couple of weeks accompanied by some of the following signs of depression, or depression symptoms:
Bipolar disorder (formerly called manic depression) is a mental health disorder that causes clear shifts in a person’s mood, energy, activity levels, and concentration. People with bipolar disorder often experience periods of feeling elated, irritable, or energized (known as manic episodes) and periods of feeling sad, indifferent, or hopeless (known as depressive episodes).
Check out the Canadian Psychological Association’s fact sheet for more information.
Depression is a mental health disorder that requires depression treatment, such as anti-depression medication, psychotherapy or psychological counselling for depression. If the root causes of depression are existential concerns, then existential psychotherapy is an effective depression treatment.
