Therapy for Depression

It Is Okay Not to Be Okay

Depression can be a difficult thing to describe to someone who has not experienced it. It is not simply feeling sad — though sadness is often part of it. It can feel like a heaviness that follows you everywhere, a numbness that makes even small tasks feel monumental, or a sense of disconnection from yourself, others and the things that used to bring you joy.

It can also be surprisingly easy to hide. Many people living with depression become very good at appearing fine on the outside, whilst quietly struggling on the inside. If that sounds familiar, I want you to know: you do not have to keep carrying this alone.

How I Can Help

Depression has a way of making us feel very isolated — as though no one could possibly understand, or as though we are somehow a burden for feeling the way we do. One of the most important things I can offer is a space where none of that applies.

In our sessions together, you will be met with genuine warmth, patience and a complete absence of judgement. You can say the things you have not been able to say elsewhere. We move at whatever pace feels right for you.

Through talk therapy, we will work to gently explore what might be underlying your depression — whether that is unresolved grief, difficult life experiences, long-held beliefs about yourself, or relational patterns that are no longer serving you. Understanding why we feel the way we do does not fix everything overnight, but it is often the beginning of something shifting.

I take seriously the idea that you have wisdom about your own experience, and I will always aim to work with you rather than simply directing you. Your autonomy matters throughout our work together.

ACT and Depression

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is an approach I find particularly valuable when working with depression, and one that sits very naturally alongside the other ways I work.

Depression often brings with it a powerful pull toward withdrawal — stepping back from life, from relationships, from the things we care about. It also tends to arrive with a very loud and unkind internal narrative: I am not good enough. Things will not get better. What is the point?

ACT offers a compassionate and practical way of working with both of these. Together, we can:

Make room for painful feelings rather than pushing them away or being overwhelmed by them — allowing them to be present without letting them dictate everything.

Step back from the harsh inner critic — noticing the stories depression tells us about ourselves, and beginning to hold them a little more lightly.

Reconnect with the present moment, rather than being lost in rumination about the past or hopelessness about the future.

Clarify what truly matters to you — your values — and begin taking small, meaningful steps back toward a life that feels worth living, even when motivation feels absent.

This last point is important. ACT does not wait for you to feel better before encouraging you to act. Instead, it supports you in taking gentle, values-led steps forward alongside the difficult feelings — which often, in time, begins to create its own momentum.

What Depression Therapy Can Help With

Low mood and persistent sadness
Loss of motivation or interest in life
Feelings of worthlessness or hopelessness
Withdrawal from relationships and activities
Difficulty functioning day to day
Grief and loss
Depression related to life transitions or identity
Depression alongside anxiety
Burnout

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Reaching out when you are depressed can feel like the hardest thing in the world. But if you are reading this, some part of you is already looking for a way forward — and that matters. Please do not hesitate to get in touch. I would be glad to hear from you.