Therapy for Depression

Depression is a mental health condition that affects millions of children and adults globally – and there are indications that it is on the rise. At Hills, we understand how depression affects your daily life and offer comprehensive therapy for depression that incorporates modalities that target the brain, body, and mind. This combination of services can help you feel better, enhance your social engagement, and inspire a healthy lifestyle. Our program provides the support you need to reach the top of the hills and see clear blue skies.

What Is Depression?

Clinical depression is when someone feels sad most of the time, to a degree where they find it difficult to function. Coping with depression can make even the simplest tasks exhausting.

Symptoms of depression may include:

Persistent feelings of sadness, hopelessness, or worthlessness
Difficulty sleeping or sleeping all the time
Increased or decreased appetite
Difficulty concentrating
Lack of motivation
Loss of energy or fatigue
Loss of interest in activities
Physical pain
Frequent thoughts about death or suicide

How We Help Alleviate Depression

Our approach aims to restore balance in your brain activity, body, and mind to increase positive mood, motivation, pleasure, and engagement in a meaningful life.

Training and therapy sessions for depression may include:

Brain Mapping (qEEG)

Helps identify brainwave patterns often found in clinical depression. One neuro marker for depression is an imbalance in alpha brainwave activity between the right and left sides of your frontal lobe. The left frontal lobe, which is associated with positive mood, is less active than the right frontal lobe, which is associated with negative mood. Brain mapping helps illuminate brainwave imbalances that might contribute to your depression.

Neurotherapy

Aims to unlock “stuck” brain patterns contributing to your depression, stimulate healthy brainwave activity, and teach you to create these patterns independently. Research demonstrates neurofeedback is an efficacious treatment for depression.

Heart Rate Variability Training (HRVB)

Helps increase the calming part of the nervous system and increases vagal tone. Research shows individuals with depression have significantly lower HRV compared to non-depressed individuals. HRV training showed a significant decrease in symptoms of depression, reduced anxiety, decreased heart rate, and increased HRV (Siepmann et al., 2008).

EMDR

Is an individual therapy that increases adaptive processing of events, modifies maladaptive beliefs, increases positive beliefs, and increases emotional and physical well-being.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Helps you identify and correct unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that make your depression worse.

Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Teaches you techniques for dealing with complicated feelings, reconnects you to your values, and helps you engage in life.

Mindfulness Meditation

Helps you distance yourself from distressing thoughts and fears and develop a gentle, observing awareness of what is going on in your body without fighting its responses.

Experiential Therapy

Takes you outdoors to connect with nature and exercise in a social setting, which has been shown to help alleviate symptoms of depression.

Group Therapy

Provides evidence-based techniques to change the thinking patterns that influence your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and lead to depression. Working as a group helps increase social support.

Complementary and Alternative Treatment

Offers new ways to soothe your mind and body. We offer chiropractic care, massage therapy, acupuncture, and herbal medicine.

Schedule a Free Consultation

Contact us to schedule a free, 15-minute phone consultation to learn more and see if our integrative psychology services are right for you.

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