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Overcoming depression: a proactive approach

One of the difficulties of being depressed is that, in addition to feeling down, you also feel powerless about feeling down... a vicious cycle!

It is good when you can start to reverse this vicious cycle. Sometimes, therapy is enough to help you change. Sometimes, the most effective way to break the cycle (and get the most out of therapy) is to take medication. This is a pragmatic issue that we deal with by monitoring progress.

My role is to help you find and develop within yourself the resources you need to overcome depression. What you learn in the process stays with you. You build up your own personal strengths. So the change you achieve is lasting.

It helps to have a healthy respect for the difficulty of this task... but to not let this intimidate us. Together, we go right into the eye of the storm: we explore what happens during these semi-conscious moments when you shift from feeling OK to feeling overwhelmed or depressed.

I help you go through a "slow motion replay" of these difficult moments. We explore together what happens, in a gentle, curious and accepting way. This helps you become more aware of what is happening, and how to fight it.

Change doesn't happen instantly. Success comes from both getting insights into what happens, and practicing new habits. A supportive approach helps you overcome the ups and downs that are a normal part of the process.

As you stick with it, this process brings about changes. And, as you act differently, you experience yourself as a different person.

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