Depression therapists in Gladstone, Missouri MO
Dr. Leigh Anne Randa
Psychologist, PhD
Effective treatment for depression includes biological, emotional, mental (thinking), and spiritual interventions. When treating depression, Dr. Randa will first help you assess lifestyle factors that may be contributing to or supporting your depression, reviewing such factors as nutrition, sleep, exercise, and supplements. Treatment continues with understanding our emotions and how they affect our behavior and branches into learning how to change our behavior through our thought processes. Many people find that some discussion devoted to unpacking their existential or spiritual discomfort is also helpful in recovery from depression. Dr. Randa is skilled in helping you to examine your faith beliefs with dignity and openness.
18 Years Experience
Paul W Anderson, PhD
Psychologist, Licensed counseling psychologist, Licensed Addictions counselor
Feeling down and blue is a normal, healthy, human experience. Having clinical depression is another thing and requires a trained professional to help you understand the difference. Basically, clinical depression is normal depression that goes to an extreme level and gets stuck there. Most people need assistance of one sort or the other to get back to normal functioning once they reach this point.
br>I will help you first determine where you are along the spectrum from feeling somewhere down and actually being stuck in depression. We'll then look at options available to you to help you feel better and begin enjoying life again.
43 Years Experience
Dr. Francis J. Manley
Therapist, Ph.D
I have more than 25 years experience helping people solve psychological problems and go on to live satisfying lives as fully developed individuals. Therapy is a rewarding process in which therapist and client collaborate to find solutions and undreamed of possibilities.
35 Years Experience
Dr. Ann Becker-Schutte; Healthy Balanced Life Psychology, LLC
Psychologist, Ph.D.
Depression is a serious illness, and can prevent you from accessing your normal coping tools and strategies. I work with clients to help them understand their depression and develop strategies to work around it.
21 Years Experience
Norma J. Perez
Psychologist, PhD
I approach depression initially by exploring your life circumstances and/or the thoughts going through your head that are trigging your mood. There are times when we may want to look at the old tape recordings playing through your head triggering depression. Once I have an idea of what is fueling your depression then we can target that. I teach your how to use thought strategies and behavior strategies to reduce depression and improve your mood. My goal is to teach you several tools so that in any given situation, you have a tool to use.
20 Years Experience