Treatment for Clinical Depression, Counselling, CBT & more

Depression is a condition that can affect anyone. Depending on the severity, Depression can be debilitating and, in some circumstances, affects our everyday life. If you’re reading this page, you might have already begun a search for support and specific treatment.  You will notice that some of the treatments overlap with those for anxiety.

In addition to general counselling approaches, specific psychological treatments for depression include:

• Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) to help us notice patterns of unhelpful thoughts and beliefs, such that we can make changes to our emotions and behaviours by adopting more beneficial beliefs or changing our thinking styles

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which helps us change our relationship with our emotions and challenges, and to improve psychological flexibility through building skills such as Mindfulness, Acceptance, Defusion, making value-based actions etc.

• Interpersonal Therapy (IPT), which focuses on our relationship patterns and developing the skills or resources to improve this important domain of our mental wellness

• Behaviour Therapy which focuses on changing behaviour or our choice of activity via healthy rewards and reducing unhelpful behaviour such as avoidance, withdrawal of inactivity, all of which can perpetuate depression

• Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) focuses on developing skills based on mindfulness and engagement in the present moment, without judgement or attempt to change it

• Other formats of therapy which can be helpful, such as Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy and long-term psychodynamics or insight-oriented therapy

These treatments are often delivered by trained clinicians. If you want to find out more, you can contact us to discuss which clinicians might be suitable for your needs.