Online Depression therapists in Barnstaple, England ENG, United Kingdom UK
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Depression
Lisa Hawkins-Jack
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, LMSW
Depression is difficult to define into many it feels a lot like being stuck and on excited about anything. There is a light at the end of the tunnel and sometimes you need someone else to help you focus on it.
31 Years Experience
Online in Barnstaple, ENG
Depression
Vicky Mould
Counsellor/Therapist, Accredited Professional Registrant (PNCPS Acc.)
Depression/persistent low mood can be debilitating and distressing, which may leave you feeling exhausted, stuck, overwhelmed, or lacking a sense of control. But you can find your way through it. And I can support you in that journey. I can offer a safe, compassionate and non-judgmental space where you can relieve thoughts and feelings you find troubling (including suicidal thoughts and feelings), and gently work through any experiences underlying your depression/low mood. You're welcome to get in touch to ask questions or book a consultation to explore if I'm the right counsellor for you.
15 Years Experience
Online in Barnstaple, ENG (Online Only)
Depression
Karine Flynn
Psychologist, MSc, GMBPS
Depression often involves a profound disconnection from the body - a flatness or numbness that makes even basic engagement feel effortful. This work doesn't ask you to feel more before you're ready. It works gently with what's present - however little that might be - and creates the conditions for aliveness to return at the body's own pace, rather than on a timeline that adds another layer of pressure.
PS: For clients experiencing depression, I work outside the programme format - at your pace, without a fixed sequence or timeline.
23 Years Experience
Online in Barnstaple, ENG
Depression
Kyle Davies
Psychologist, BSc MPhil CPsychol AFBPsS
In modern society, the word depression is used to describe experiences ranging from low mood and sadness to a complete inability to function. Depression can manifest as extreme fatigue, cognitive dysfunction and suicidal thoughts.
Statistics tell us that one in six to a quarter of us will suffer from mild to severe depression at some point in our lives. Mild to severe depression can last from a few days to many years. Often there are no clear-cut manifestations of the depression that outsiders can observe, and this compounds the problem because people don’t understand what you are experiencing.
No two people’s experience of depression is exactly the same, and it can be very difficult to understand why the symptoms are even present much less what to do about it. Having experienced depression firsthand, I know what the experience is like and how debilitating it can be. I have now successfully treated sufferers of depression for over 20 years and have drawn heavily on my personal experience and the lessons it taught me.
Depression symptoms can manifest themselves in many different ways and can also increase gradually over time making them harder to detect in the early stages. The symptoms can be wide-ranging and the symptoms can appear to be constant and relentless. Your symptom experiences may well include:
low mood
hopelessness
lack of motivation
confusion and a sense of being lost or stuck
loss of appetite, weight loss, or weight gain
cognitive dysfunction – ‘brain fog’, inability to concentrate and memory loss
sleep disturbance
loss of pleasure and interest in life
agitation
fatigue and lack of energy
suicidal thoughts
weakness
aches and pains
Loss of libido
I’d like to be very clear, we often think that when we experience symptoms there is something wrong with our brain. While this can be the case, a more useful way of looking at symptoms for the condition of depression, is that your body is seeking to get your attention, to let you know that something is not quite right. You are NOT broken, your body is working perfectly normally, it is simply alerting you to the fact that you’ve become disconnected from YOU and something needs to change. Opening up to a new understanding and making that change is well within your own capability.
27 Years Experience
Online in Barnstaple, ENG
Depression
Mandy Randall-Gavin MBACP, UKATA
Counsellor/Therapist, BA Hons, Dip TA Prac: UKATA
Depression can be described as a disturbance in a person’s ability to grow to their full potential. Every individual holds the key to their own ability to facilitate change given the right conditions for growth and positive change. If you are depressed, I can help you shift your perspectives by employing empathy, unconditional positive regard and congruence. If you're experiencing these conditions, healing can begin to take place. Each depressed person is seen as a unique individual with their own set of circumstances. Given the right interpersonal environment where real contact can take place, I can help you lift your depression by you experiencing more self-acceptance and self-worth.
14 Years Experience
Online in Barnstaple, ENG
Depression
Jason Fletcher Hypnotherapy and Coaching
Hypnotherapist, FNCIP SQHP
Depression work focuses on understanding the emotional and belief patterns that can sit beneath low mood, withdrawal, or loss of motivation. I support people in developing steadier emotional regulation and reconnecting with a sense of stability over time. Sessions are carefully paced and grounded, without pressure to force change.
23 Years Experience
Online in Barnstaple, ENG
Depression
Sara Aicart-Pendlebury
Art Therapist, Human Givens Practitioner (HG.Dip.P), Member of Human Givens Institute, IFS therapist Levels 1&2, Narm Practitioner
If you are feeling low, or depressed I can help you by integrating behavioural, cognitive and interpersonal approaches with relaxation, visualisation and guided imagery techniques. Contact me for a free consultation to feel more motivated, with a clear plan how to begin to solve your problems. Contrary to common belief, depression is not primarily a biological illness, inherited through the genes. Nor is it the setbacks, crises or tragedies in our lives that cause depression. It is our response to adverse events that determines whether we get depressed or not. Research shows that people most likely to suffer depression are those who react to adversity by taking it personally, seeing all areas of their lives as blighted by it, and the misery as going on forever. Depression is always a second and unnecessary problem, and just makes problematic circumstances worse. This is good to know because it means that, instead of feeling helpless or hopeless, people can learn to take back control over their lives. They may not be able to change certain circumstances but they always have options about how they react to them.
The symptoms of depression include low mood, loss of interest or pleasure in usual activities, loss of appetite and energy, sleep disturbance, feeling agitated or lethargic, worthless or guilty, difficulty in thinking straight and having repeated thoughts about suicide. Antidepressant drugs may help some people because they lift levels of a ‘feel-good’ chemical in the brain; unfortunately, they do nothing to change the underlying circumstances or thinking patterns that led to the depression. Depression is always related to unmet essential emotional needs and that is why the human givens approach, which focuses on helping people in distress find healthy ways to meet their emotional needs, is so successful.
Depressed people may seem deflated and flat but, in actual fact, they have raised levels of a stress hormone called cortisol, which means that they are in a state of constant high emotional arousal. When our emotions are aroused we can’t think rationally, so this is why people deep in the grip of depression can’t concentrate well or even make simple decisions. Learning simple relaxation techniques to calm themselves down will start reducing those cortisol levels.
The main reason that depressed people are so emotionally aroused is that they spend a vast amount of time worrying about the future or beating themselves up about past events. Perhaps they still feel guilty about something that happened recently – or years ago; perhaps they are frightening themselves with dire ‘what if?’ scenarios (likely or unlikely), in which loved ones encounter dangers or they themselves lose their jobs or their homes; perhaps they feel beaten down by chronic pain or anger (“Why did this have to happen to me?” “How could he have been so cruel?”); or maybe they experience a combination. They also have a huge tendency towards negative thinking – “I’ll never be good enough”; “I’ll never cope”; “nothing ever goes right”; “the pain will only get worse”. All this kind of negative imagining and thinking saps an enormous amount of energy – and makes people utterly miserable.
Far from feeling more refreshed after a night’s sleep, most people with depression wake up next day still exhausted and feeling totally unmotivated. It is hard for them to get out of bed and do anything at all. We now know why this happens. Psychologist and co-founder of the human givens approach Joe Griffin carried out research over many years which showed that, when we dream at night, we are discharging unexpressed emotional arousals from the previous day. If earlier we were upset about something our spouse did or didn’t do, but kept it to ourselves, we would later dream that out, perhaps in the form of getting angry with someone else (dream content is never straightforward); that would have the desired effect of lowering our levels of emotional arousal, so that we can start next day afresh, even though we are unlikely to remember we had the dream. (If we did express our feelings with our spouse at the time, we wouldn’t need to dream about it. And, of course, if we wake up and remember what our spouse did or didn’t do, we may get emotionally aroused about it all over again, requiring more dream discharge that night, if we still don’t resolve it.)
17 Years Experience
Online in Barnstaple, ENG
Depression
Gordon Wax BA HONS MBACP
Counsellor/Therapist, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
You don't have to be in bed crying to be depressed. Therapy will help you to support yourself.
13 Years Experience
Online in Barnstaple, ENG
Depression
Dr Jody Eiser
Therapist, Doctorate in Psychology
Depression is often more than low mood, it can reflect patterns shaped by what has been endured over time. My work focuses on understanding these experiences through a trauma-informed lens and a focus on trauma endurance, exploring the deeper patterns that influence how you feel, relate, and cope. This creates space for meaningful, lasting change.
0 Years Experience
Online in Barnstaple, ENG
Depression
Rachel Eddins
Counsellor/Therapist, MEd, LPC
Does your world seem dull and draining and you don't know why? Have you lost motivation or interest in things you usually have energy for? The weight of depression can be lifted. There is hope. Depression therapy can help you feel joy, happiness and fulfillment again.
21 Years Experience
Online in Barnstaple, ENG
Depression
Janine & ComposurePsychology Team
Psychologist, Chartered Clinical Psychologist, HCPC & BPS registered, DClinPsy, CSAccred.(AAC), MPhil (cantab)
All of our Clinical Psychologists at ComposurePsychology are very experienced in helping people understand, manage and overcome low mood, overwhelm, a sense of being stuck and depression. We draw from evidence based therapies including; CBT, ACT, CFT, SFT, DBT, EMDR, systemic, narrative, psychodynamic and others.
13 Years Experience
Online in Barnstaple, ENG
Depression
Dr Jacob Ellwood
Psychologist, PsychD, Cpsychol
Depression can be debilitating and cause us to lose hope that we will ever be 'normal' or content again. To help my clients through their depression I use a combination of approaches, including CBT, behavioural activation and mindfulness, all proceeding from an empathic, person-centred base.
14 Years Experience
Online in Barnstaple, ENG
Depression
Samantha Coleman
Therapist, MBACP Prof Dip
Depression can affect every part of life, including motivation, energy, self-worth, relationships, hope, and your ability to feel connected to yourself or the world around you. It can leave you feeling flat, overwhelmed, numb, stuck, or exhausted by simply getting through the day. My approach is compassionate, thoughtful, and grounded in understanding your inner world rather than reducing you to a diagnosis. Together, we can make sense of what may be sitting underneath the depression and help life feel more manageable and meaningful.
13 Years Experience
Online in Barnstaple, ENG
Depression
Fiona Grace
Counsellor/Therapist, AdvDipCounselling &Pyschotherapy MBACP
Bognor Regis, Bristol, London, West Sussex I have worked for over 20 years with high support mental health needs, I have researched and studied the impacts of depression and techniques to support people who suffer from this condition
20 Years Experience
Online in Barnstaple, ENG
Depression
Shareen Birges
Registered Social Worker, BASS, GDYMH, MSW
My person centered, strengths based & trauma informed practice helps me to create individual counselling plans that can support people through their depression. I have completed a Graduate Diploma in Youth Mental Health which has given me a great knowledge in both mental health & how to identify & therapeutically treat mental conditions in both adult clients & young people.
18 Years Experience
Online in Barnstaple, ENG
Depression
James Hitchen - I Am James Therapy & Coaching
Therapist, Psychotherapeutic counselling (level 5), MBACP, AdV member Addiction Professionals, MNCPS accred. National Centre For Eating Disorders
I am an integrative counsellor drawing on a number of methods to help them overcome or manage issues such as depression . I have a holistic view of mental health and wellbeing helping clients to look after their mental, physical, spiritual and emotional health to work through their depression and thrive in life. Depression does not need to be a life sentence and recovery is possible! I work collaboratively with my clients using both counselling and coaching skills to help promote positive, lasting change.
9 Years Experience
Online in Barnstaple, ENG
Depression
Dr Paul Garden
Psychologist, Doctorate in Psychology, DPsych, MSc with Distinction, BSc First Class Honours.
Feelings of low mood and depression can strongly impact the way a person feels about themselves, the people around them and the world in general. Like anxiety, depression can be extremely debilitating. I specialise in treating these experiences by first attempting to make sense of where the distressing feelings come from.
11 Years Experience
Online in Barnstaple, ENG
Depression
Jimi Katsis
Registered Psychotherapist, MA psych, Dip SW
Depression isn't sadness. It's exhaustion. It's going through the motions while feeling nothing. It's knowing you should care about things but not being able to feel it. It's functioning on the outside while being completely disconnected on the inside.
Some people describe it as numbness, others as a heavy weight they can't shake. Either way, it makes life feel pointless even when objectively things are fine. That disconnect is what we need to understand.
Depression often isn't about what's happening now—it's about patterns that got laid down years ago. We work to understand where the disconnection started, what purpose it served then, and why it's still running now. Then we can start changing it.
This isn't about positive thinking or forcing yourself to feel better. It's about understanding why your system shut down, and gently helping it come back online.
27 Years Experience
Online in Barnstaple, ENG (Online Only)
Depression
Ashley Horsley
Registered Psychotherapist, BA, MA, Post MA Dip, BACP Accred
Do you find it nearly impossible to get out of bed? Or if you can get out of bed do you drag yourself to work? Do you put off any chores possible to postpone? Do you hide away as much as you can, taking refuge in escapist behaviours such as sleeping too much/ drinking too much/social media etc? Depression is a debilitating lack of energy and hope. Coming to find me is a fantastic first step out of the shut-down shut-off spaces you have got stuck in. You can do it!
24 Years Experience
Online in Barnstaple, ENG
Depression
Jayne LESLEY Allen
Therapist, MIBWRT(AC and Coach, TFT DX, NLP Practioner and Coach, Hypnotherapist
I support people that are experiencing low mood, lack of motivation, or a sense of disconnection from life. Using neuroscience-based therapy along with traditional methods we work together to understand the patterns that may be keeping you stuck and develop practical ways to shift them. My approach is compassionate and collaborative, helping you to restore balance, resilience, and reconnect with a sense of purpose.
16 Years Experience
Online in Barnstaple, ENG
Depression therapists in Barnstaple, England, United Kingdom Statistics
Depression therapists in Barnstaple, England, United Kingdom average 15 years of experience and charge around ¤116 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The most commonly treated issues are Depression (100%), Anxiety or Fears (90%), and Self Esteem (75%).
Average years in practice
15 Years Experience
Average cost per session
¤116
Gender ID
| 68% |
Female |
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| 30% |
Male |
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| 1% |
Non-Binary |
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| 1% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 65% |
In Person and Online |
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| 35% |
Online Only |
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Top Specialties
| 100% | Depression |
| 90% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 75% | Self Esteem |
| 72% | Stress |
| 68% | Trauma and PTSD |
| 62% | Loss or Grief |
| 62% | Social Anxiety |