When Life Feels Heavy, We're Here to Help You Carry It
Compassionate depression support that meets you where you are and helps you rediscover hope, connection, and meaning in your life.
What is Depression Support?
Depression can make you feel isolated and hopeless, but you don't have to carry this weight by yourself. Depression support is specialized therapy designed to help you navigate the complex experience of depression, whether you're feeling persistently sad, empty, disconnected, or struggling with the physical and emotional weight that depression brings to daily life.
At Alba Wellness Group, we understand that depression isn't a sign of weakness or something you can just "snap out of." It's a real condition that affects your thoughts, feelings, energy, and relationships in profound ways. Our depression support goes beyond temporary fixes to address the root causes and help you build lasting strategies for healing and resilience.
We recognize that depression can look different for everyone, from the person who appears high-functioning on the outside while struggling deeply inside, to those who find it difficult to get out of bed or complete basic tasks. Whatever your experience, we're here to provide the understanding, tools, and support you need to find your way back to yourself.
With the right support, tools, and time, you can find your way back to a life that feels meaningful, connected, and full of possibility.
What to Expect from Depression Support
✔ Creating Safety & Understanding
Your first sessions will focus on creating a safe space where you can share your experience without judgment. We'll explore how depression shows up in your life and begin to understand the unique factors contributing to your symptoms.
✔ Addressing Immediate Needs
We'll work together to address urgent concerns like sleep difficulties, loss of appetite, social isolation, or thoughts of self-harm, ensuring you have support for your most pressing needs.
✔ Building Daily Structure & Meaning
We'll help you create small, achievable daily routines and activities that can begin to lift your mood and restore a sense of purpose and connection.
✔ Exploring Underlying Patterns
Depression often involves negative thought patterns, unprocessed emotions, or life circumstances that feel overwhelming. We'll gently explore these patterns and work to shift them in ways that feel manageable.
✔ Developing Long-term Resilience
Our goal is to help you not just feel better now, but to develop skills and insights that support your ongoing mental health and well-being.
✔ Processing Life Experiences
Many people find that depression is connected to past experiences, grief, trauma, or major life changes. We'll create space to process these experiences in a supportive environment.
Goals of Depression Support
✔ Reduce feelings of sadness, emptiness, and hopelessness that make each day feel overwhelming
✔ Increase energy and motivation to engage with life and activities you once enjoyed
✔ Challenge negative thought patterns that keep you stuck in cycles of self-criticism and despair
✔ Improve sleep patterns and appetite that depression often disrupts
✔ Develop healthy coping strategies for managing difficult emotions and life stressors
✔ Create sustainable wellness practices that support your ongoing mental health
✔ Build self-compassion and a more loving relationship with yourself
✔ Reconnect with relationships and rebuild social connections that depression may have strained
✔ Rediscover meaning and purpose in your daily life and long-term goals
OUR APPROACH TO DEPRESSION SUPPORT
Our depression support is rooted in compassion, evidence-based practices, and a deep understanding that healing happens in relationship and community.
✔ Trauma-Informed Care: We recognize that depression is often connected to life experiences, trauma, or ongoing stressors. Our approach addresses these underlying factors with sensitivity and care.
✔ Culturally Responsive Treatment: We understand how cultural background, discrimination, and systemic oppression can contribute to depression, and we provide care that honors your identity and lived experience.
✔ Evidence-Based Therapies: Our therapists use proven approaches including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Interpersonal Therapy, mindfulness-based interventions, and EMDR when trauma is a factor.
✔ Strengths-Based Focus: While we don't minimize your struggles, we also help you reconnect with your inherent strengths, resilience, and capacity for healing.
✔ Holistic Wellness: We consider how depression affects your whole life, relationships, work, physical health, and spirituality, and address these areas as part of your healing journey.
✔ Collaborative Care: We may coordinate with your primary care doctor, psychiatrist, or other healthcare providers to ensure you're getting comprehensive support.
Frequently Asked Questions
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If you've been feeling persistently sad, empty, hopeless, or disconnected for more than two weeks, and it's impacting your daily functioning, you may be experiencing depression. Other signs include changes in sleep, appetite, energy, concentration, or thoughts of self-harm.
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Many people experience guilt or shame about depression, but these feelings are part of the condition, not a reflection of your worth. Depression is a medical condition, not a personal failing.
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We understand this concern. Our approach focuses on creating safety and stability first, then gradually working through deeper issues at a pace that feels manageable for you.
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Some people notice improvements within a few weeks, while others benefit from longer-term support. We'll regularly check in about your progress and adjust our approach as needed.
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There are many different therapeutic approaches, and finding the right fit is important. We'll work together to understand what hasn't worked in the past and try different strategies that might be more effective for you.
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Yes, we have experience supporting people through suicidal thoughts and will work with you to create a safety plan. If you're having thoughts of self-harm, please call 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline) or go to your nearest emergency room.
You Don't Have to Face This Alone
Hope and healing are possible, even when everything feels dark.
