Psychotherapy for Depression: Healing Through Meeting and Resolution

Understanding Psychotherapy for Depression

The weight of a depressive spiral is suffocating: It separates you from your feelings, thoughts and motivation to get through the day. Psychotherapy for depression, also known as talk therapy, can assist with your symptoms and help you deal with the thoughts, feelings and life situation that have sprung up because of it.
Unlike a medication, psychotherapy offers you tools to dissect just what your emotions are doing and how you’re thinking in a way that could help save your long-standing relationships and improve emotional resilience beyond treatment.

How Psychotherapy Helps with Depression

In Psychotherapy you have a space to safely explore, and work toward your goals or dreams:

  • Learn about thoughts, feelings and actions that contribute to depression.
  • Try and work out how to more effectively address stress and sadness, or a down mood.
  • strengthen relationships with others
  • Increase understanding and kindness towards self
  • Build and promote emotional regulation and resiliency.
  • Reduction of isolation and hopelessness

They’re led by a trained therapist who listens deeply and helps you make meaning of what has happened to you, while also helping you find ways to step realistically into the future.

Types of Psychotherapy for Depression

There is no one-size-fits-all, and your therapist will personalize your treatment. Some effective therapy types include:

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

The theory is based on the premise that mood is affected by thinking and actions. It tends to shake you up and fight negative thoughts patterns, replacing them with something more positive – could alleviate your depression.

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)

MBCT is a cross between CBT and mindfulness. It shows you, gently, how to work through thoughts and feelings without judgment, so your rumination will diminish and your relapse risk will wane.

Interpersonal Therapy (IPT)

IPT looks at relationship and communication patterns which contribute to your being distressed. It increases supports from others and decreases conflict with others.

Psychodynamic Therapy

This goes deeper into emotional patterns and unresolved past experiences that may be impacting present day in depression for greater insight and change.

Supportive Psychotherapy & Other Approaches

Supportive therapy will focus on building individual emotional resilience and offering support or encouragement and coping mechanisms if depression has had an impact on confidence or feelings of oneself.

Who Can Psychotherapy for Depression Help?

Anyone coping with these problems can benefit from psychotherapy:

  • Feeling down, feeling low mood and disinterested in things
  • No longer enjoying things that you used to enjoy
  • Trouble focusing or deciding
  • Change in sleeping patterns (over or not enough)
  • Worthlessness or excessive guilt
  • Feeling emotionally numb or irritable
  • Interpersonal conflict/ life changes

It may benefit mild, moderate or chronic depression and can be used in conjunction with or without medication.

Why Getting Psychotherapy at Find A New Way?

Here at Find A New Way to Live, this is how we approach psychotherapy for depression:

Empathetic & person-centered

We create a loving environment in which you feel heard, seen and safe.

Evidence-Based & Tailored

Every session is surrounded by handpicked, research-based therapy that’s right for you.

Holistic Healing

We help you become more resilient, and develop new patterns of thinking that are healthier, basically, improving your mind or emotional fitness.

Collaborative & Empowering

Our therapists work in collaboration with you to create skills that will help long after you have your treatment.

Take the First Step to Feeling Better

Depression doesn’t have to be a life sentence. Psychotherapy for depression provides people with insight into what is really going on in all their lives, and it develops confidence and skills so that they may move forward.

Book a session today

Begin your journey to clarity, healing and transformation. You shouldn’t have to sort through all this shit solo: we’re here, our help is here and treatment can work.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is psychotherapy for depression?

Psychotherapy or talk therapy: Working with a therapist to talk about thoughts, feelings and behaviors that may be contributing to your depression; learning skills so you can develop new coping mechanisms.

2. What happens in depression therapy?

Therapy can help you identify negative thought patterns, better understand what makes you tick and establish new coping skills and tools for getting through during difficult times or when symptoms flare.

3. Am I really going to tell someone how I’m feeling in a therapy session?

Yes. Therapist edition: A hot session of shared thoughts, feelings and experiences. And a good therapist would help make them understandable and support you in figuring out how to try and address them in order to change.

4. What are the psychotherapies for depression?

That is likely to involve things like cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) which can change the way people think about things negatively, as well as interpersonal therapy – improving relationships between patients – and other supportive therapies that help with the management of emotion and behaviour.

5. When will therapy helps me feel better?

Everyone’s journey is different. Some start to move after a small number of sessions; others stay in therapy for weeks or months. The rate of progress you make is going to be different for everybody based on how severe your symptoms are, what your goals are, and how often you do the work.