Depression and Low Mood
Depression doesn't always look like sadness. Sometimes it looks like flatness, a muted version of life where things that used to matter simply don't anymore. Sometimes it looks like going through the motions, functioning well enough on the outside while feeling disconnected from everything on the inside. Sometimes it looks like exhaustion that sleep doesn't fix. If you've been feeling this way for a while, you're not broken. But you don't have to keep pushing through it alone either.
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Signs You Might Be Experiencing Depression
Depression can be hard to recognise in yourself, partly because it changes how you think. It tends to make the current state feel permanent, as though this is just who you are now. Common experiences include persistent low mood, loss of interest in things you previously enjoyed, difficulty concentrating, changes in sleep or appetite, and a heaviness that's hard to explain to others. For many millennials and Gen Z, depression also shows up alongside being high functioning. You're still working, still socialising, still meeting your obligations. But something feels fundamentally off, and has been for longer than you'd like to admit.
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How Online Therapy Helps with Depression
Depression often involves patterns of thinking that reinforce themselves, negative views of yourself, the world, and the future that feel like facts rather than interpretations. Therapy helps you examine those patterns, understand where they came from, and develop a different relationship with them. It also addresses the behavioural side. Depression tends to reduce the activities and connections that would otherwise sustain mood, which deepens the low. Understanding that cycle and learning tools and skills to gradually interrupting it is a core part of the work.
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What a Session Looks Like
Sessions are collaborative. We spend time understanding your experience, identifying the patterns that are maintaining low mood, and working on both insight and practical strategies. Progress in therapy isn't linear. What matters is building a clearer picture of what's driving the depression and developing real tools for navigating it.
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My Approach to Treating Depression
I draw on cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT), schema therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and motivational interviewing. For depression, these approaches each bring something distinct to the work.
CBT addresses the thought patterns and behavioural cycles that maintain low mood, the negative interpretations of yourself and your circumstances that feel true but can be examined and changed. Schema therapy looks further back, at the deeper beliefs about yourself and the
world that may have made depression a familiar state.
ACT approaches the work differently: rather than focusing primarily on changing difficult thoughts, it builds the capacity to hold them without being controlled by them, and to take action guided by your values even when motivation is low. This distinction matters for depression particularly, because waiting to feel motivated before acting tends to deepen the low rather than lift it.
Motivational interviewing runs underneath all of it, it shapes how we explore what matters to you and what movement toward change might look like, without prescribing a path.
Not sure if therapy is the right fit? A free consultation is a low-pressure way to gain some clarity.
Persistent low mood can deeply impact how we see ourselves and how we interact with others, often linking back to struggles with Self-Esteem or Relationship Issues. To learn more about how we support these areas, view our services to discuss your needs in a safe space.