CBT for Depression

Feeling depressed can leave you feeling like a flat battery.   However, like a flat battery, you help overcome depression by recharging not by resting and withdrawing.  CBT can help you find this hidden energy, re-set and push forward

Research shows that people who suffer from depression are prone to negative automatic thinking patterns – a habit of negatively appraising themselves, the world and the future.  Over time this negative bias in thinking can cause low mood, feelings of hopelessness and helplessness and emotional isolation. Reduced activity is typical with depression and social and communicational withdrawal common. This negative cycle can gather momentum and become a longer term problem.

robbing you of good feelings of contentment, inclusion and belonging, self-confidence, healthy connection to others and to daily activities.

Depression can very often follow on from difficult life transitions, traumatic experiences or from complex loss/bereavement.  The CBT approach can help you overcome negative symptoms of depression, and recover overall good feeling day-to-day.  Individuals are helped to recover a healthy connection with life, with those around them, work and leisure, and to free up potential for ongoing personal growth and development.

Happiness requires more than just the removal of distress!