The first 1-3 sessions are a comprehensive intake where we’ll take a deep dive into your history, your experiences with depression, and what you hope to achieve from therapy. I’ll ask about your personal and professional life and how depression is impacting you day-to-day—whether it’s your energy, motivation, relationships, or sense of purpose. The goal is to understand the full picture of who you are and what your best hopes are for therapy. From there, we’ll create a personalized plan to help you reconnect with yourself, find relief, and make meaningful progress toward the life you want to live.

If depression is making it harder to live the life you want—impacting your work, relationships, or daily routine—it might be time to consider therapy. While self-help strategies can be helpful, therapy provides a space to explore what’s contributing to your depression and develop tools that are personalized specifically for you. If you’ve been trying to manage it on your own but still feel stuck, unmotivated, or unsure how to move forward, therapy can offer structure and support.

Progress in therapy depends on your specific needs. In the first few sessions, we’ll focus on addressing immediate concerns and giving you practical tools to manage depression—like laying a solid foundation. As we continue, we’ll dig deeper to uncover the patterns that are keeping you stuck, much like building the walls and structure of a house. Over time, the goal is to strengthen your overall mental health, helping you regain energy, clarity, and purpose, so the changes you make are solid, meaningful, and built to last.

That’s a valid concern, and it’s something we can explore together. While CBT is effective for many people, sometimes it doesn’t address everything. If you’re still feeling stuck, we can explore going deeper with EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing). EMDR can help process unresolved experiences or patterns that may be contributing to your depression in ways CBT alone might not have reached. Therapy is a flexible process, and we’ll work together to adjust and find the approach that feels right for you.

No. I can’t guarantee that therapy will work to treat depression for everyone because each person’s journey is unique and depends on many factors, like your goals, the pace of our work together, and how you apply the tools and insights from therapy in your daily life. That being said, evidence suggests that therapy can be effective for many people in reducing symptoms of depression and improving their overall well-being.

If therapy doesn’t feel like the right fit for addressing depression, there are other options to consider. Some people find relief through self-guided practices, such as mindfulness, exercise, or journaling, while others may explore medication with the help of a healthcare provider. You might also connect with practices rooted in your cultural or spiritual traditions, or simply take time to reflect and evaluate what would be most helpful to you. Therapy is just one way of managing depression, and finding the approach that feels right for you is what matters most.