Depression Therapy in Denver
On paper life isn’t bad, but the way you feel doesn’t match up.
Depression can look a lot of different ways. It can be so debilitating you can barely get out of bed, or can be a lingering sense of listlessness with everything you are doing. One thing is for certain, life feels smaller, less meaningful.
You feel discontent all the time.
You’ve worked hard to get where you are but you feel like you can’t enjoy it as much as you would like. Even though life is pretty good it just doesn’t feel that way. Instead if feels like you’re just passing through.
Things feel stuck.
There is a critic in your head that is always judging you unfavorably. You find yourself asking “what’s the point?”.
People always remind you how good you’ve got it. You even tell yourself you shouldn’t feel this way, life could be a lot worse. As true as those statements may be, they don’t make you feel any better.
You know all the things you “should” be doing. Eat right, exercise, get enough sleep… You’re either doing them already, or just don’t have the motivation for them.
What depression might look like:
Feeling like a failure
Lingering sense of discontentment
Never feeling like “enough”
Just going though the motions
Comparing yourself to others unfavorably
Feeling like things are never good enough
Feeling tired and fatigued all the time
A nagging critic in your head that just won’t shut up
I can help you get unstuck and start really living your life again
Working together we can reduce the intensity and influence of depression in your life. Depression is more than a feeling, it is a whole process. We work together to identify the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that can keep you stuck in depression. Then we build an actionable plan to get you unstuck.
You’ll learn skills to change your relationship with distressing thoughts and feelings, skills to change the way you respond to them. Changing these responses and relationships are a way to reduce the impact and influence of depression on your life.
Together we will set goals that are meaningful for you and build patterns of behavior to get you there. Science can’t tell us what to value or how to how to value it, but it does tell us that living in line with our values can radically improve our quality of life. An improved quality of life can bring a sense of meaning and purpose that just might stop the struggles with “what’s the point”?
I have spent more than a decade helping men end their struggle with depression. My practice is grounded in well researched, reliable, and evidenced-based methods. Together we use these methods to identify old, unhelpful, counterproductive behavioral patterns, and then build more flexible, adaptive, behavioral patterns.