Online Depression Therapy in New Jersey
Therapy for adults across New Jersey who feel stuck, numb, withdrawn, and insecure.
Depression can feel like a heavy burden to carry. It wants you to sleep the day away, cancel the plans, detach from what you used to love. It may come with a pretty harsh internal voice that tells you you’re a failure and that things will never get better. People tell you to be grateful and you try your best but it’s also exhausting to pretend.
While it’s tempting to see depression as something you suffer through, consider that there’s something protective about the apathy, the loss of hope, the brain fog. Sometimes depression is an understandable side effect of a deeply held wound made in our past. A wound that says good things don’t happen to a person like you or that expecting good things would just lead to devastating disappointment or rejection.
What Therapy for Depression with me Looks Like
We begin by uncovering what your depression looks like and what it’s attempting to protect you from. We don’t immediately try to minimize it or push the feelings away. We lead with curiosity to get at the root cause. That root cause may be that staying isolated means you never have to face crippling rejection. It may be that thinking you’re less than means you won’t be like a parent who was arrogant and self-centered. The depression may come from a learning that you’re unlovable because of experiences in your past.
When the root cause is discovered, it’s met with understanding and compassion. From that headspace and using techniques aligned with transformational change, clients begin to understand that what they are expecting from life can be updated and changed to make room for authenticity, connection, hope, and joy.
Take a look at the evidenced-based approaches to treating depression:
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IFS believes that within each of us is a complex internal “family” containing different parts.
There is the part of you that chose to seek therapy and there may be another part of you that’s scared to start. In the IFS world, this complexity is all welcome. Every part of you is fleshed out slowly, with compassion and curiosity because IFS believes every part has intentions of protecting or helping you…even the parts you don’t like.
IFS also believes we all have a core Self beneath the defense mechanisms we adopted in response to pain, trauma, and adversity. Our core Self is compassionate, curious, clear-minded, calm, creative, courageous, confident, and compassionate.
Through IFS techniques, profound relief is possible.
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I am IFS-trained and utilize this approach to treat individuals in New Jersey.
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Brainspotting is an evidence-based somatic-therapy that supports the achievement of relief from traumatic experiences. It’s tagline is, “Where you look affects how you feel”.
The approach hones in on eye position as a mechanism for memory reconsolidation, the brain’s process for unlearning core beliefs about yourself and the world.
Brainspotting was born out of EMDR and offers comparable results without a strict protocol. When individuals are guided to find an eye position connected to pain, trauma, or adversity, Brainspotting enables the brain to engage in its natural healing and consolidation process by activating brain regions tied to survival responses, emotion, and memory.
This approach can be beneficial for folks who: intellectualize and/or want a different experience than standard talk therapy.
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I am Phase I trained in Brainspotting and utilize this approach to treat individuals in New Jersey.
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Coherence Therapy is an evidence-based approach that facilitated unlearning and resolution of deep emotional wounds. The approach works via the memory reconsolidation process.
Coherence therapy is nonjudgemental, holding the philosophy that our symptoms actually make total sense based on the (often unconscious) emotional lessons we learned when we experienced pain, suffering, and trauma.
Coherence therapy works to uncover the unconscious emotional lessons themselves so that they can be transformed and long-term relief can be experienced.
I am trained in Coherence Therapy and utilize the approach to treat individuals in New Jersey.
Who is this Therapy For?
Adults in New Jersey can benefit from this work to address the following challenges:
You feel exhausted mentally and physically, like you’re trudging through mud
It’s hard to do things like shower, brush your teeth, and tend to your space
You’ve noticed yourself withdrawing from loved ones and previously enjoyed activities
You see the glass half empty, never or rarely believing that life will get better
You compare yourself to others and believe you’re somehow deficient or less than
You feel like you’re in a fog and it’s hard to concentrate