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Inner Weather
Depression narrows the world until only the heaviest parts are visible. Counselling widens it again, slowly.
I work with depression using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Behavioural Activation for the practical layer, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for the relationship you have with your own thoughts, and psychodynamic and existential work when the depression is tied to meaning, identity, or something unresolved. In my clinical work I see people with major depressive disorder diagnosed by psychiatrists, so I am not easily alarmed and I will not minimize what you are carrying.
My approach to this work
Counselling and medication are not competing options. If your symptoms are severe, persistent, or physical, a conversation with your GP or a psychiatrist is appropriate and I will encourage it. Many people do their best work with both in place. I do not prescribe, and I will never advise you to stop or change medication.
Sixty minute sessions, weekly or fortnightly at first. Early work is often about small, achievable movement rather than insight, because action tends to shift mood before understanding does.
Getting started
A short call to hear what is going on, answer your questions, and see whether we are a good fit. No pressure either way.
Sixty minutes to lay out the situation in your own words. We get clear on what matters most and what you want to be different.
We settle into a rhythm that suits you, weekly or spaced out, in person on the Sunshine Coast or by secure video anywhere in BC.
If any of this sounds like where you are right now, the next step is a free 15 minute consultation. No pressure, no commitment, just a conversation.