Online Depression therapists in Kirkwall, Scotland Scotland, United Kingdom UK
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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 Kirkwall, Scotland
Depression
Delphine Marina Psychotherapy and Counselling
Registered Psychotherapist, Diploma Soul Centred Psychotherapy; MA(R.es) Cultural Studies; GradDip IT & Politics; BA(Hons)Human
Depression can feel like a disconnection from yourself, others, and the life you once knew—sometimes experienced as numbness, fatigue, or a quiet sense of collapse. It may show up as a loss of meaning, motivation, or joy, but beneath the surface, it often carries unspoken grief, unmet needs, or buried parts of the self. In therapy, we don’t rush to fix or pathologise—we listen with compassion to what the depression might be protecting, expressing, or calling for. Together, we make space for reconnection, vitality, and the slow return of hope and self-trust.Whatever your experience, depression is not a personal failure. It’s a sign that something in you is asking for attention, care, and space to breathe again.
16 Years Experience
Online in Kirkwall, Scotland
Depression
Beth Jackson Counselling and Coaching
Counsellor/Therapist, BA (hons), Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling
Living with the cloud of depression is an isolating and often scary place to be. I can sit in that space with you and help look for relief. Often just having a safe and non-judgemental space can make such a difference.
7 Years Experience
Online in Kirkwall, Scotland
Depression
Funmi Oni
Counsellor/Therapist, MBACP, MSc, Dip in PPC
Depression is a number of mental conditions which can be identified by perpetual low mood, feelings of sadness or negative feelings towards everyday life experiences.
I will work with you by telephone, face2face or video call so you determine your safe space to work
17 Years Experience
Online in Kirkwall, Scotland
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 Kirkwall, Scotland
Depression
Patchouli Therapy
Counsellor/Therapist, Prof. Adv. Dip. PC, Dip. Hyp, Dip. CBT/REBT, Dip. EFT, Dip. SBA, MA Psychosynthesis Psychology
I am a Psycho-Spiritual Counsellor offering bespoke services using a combination of holistic and complementary intervention to help relieve despondency and dejected feelings be assessing your connection with your Will, along with a combination of solution-focused techniques to help promote self-care, rituals and life purpose.
13 Years Experience
Online in Kirkwall, Scotland (Online Only)
Depression
Dr. Stéphanie Gamache, PhD
Hypnotherapist, PhD
Depression is often an expression of emotional loss, internal conflict, and blocked vitality rather than a problem to be treated only at the level of symptoms. My work integrates psychoanalytic exploration, somatic awareness, and hypnosis to understand how sadness, withdrawal, and numbness are shaped by early relational experience and lived in the body. Together, we work toward restoring emotional movement, self-understanding, and a renewed capacity for connection and aliveness.
7 Years Experience
Online in Kirkwall, Scotland (Online Only)
Depression
Adima Hawkes
Counsellor/Therapist, Psychotherapist, Spiritual Teacher, Gene Keys Guide, Trainer Tibetan Acupressure & Iridology
Depression and the reasons for it are a vast field. The healing is a process that needs slowing down and patience. In-person sessions with application of the great body and energy work with TIBETAN PULSING are advised and often successful. I can support you online as well by giving support for self-regulation and by building a new orientation inside for connecting with your own value. Firstly I need a clear diagnosis and information about your situation, including medication and history.
30 Years Experience
Online in Kirkwall, Scotland
Depression
Tamzin Brain @HypnoChange4U
Counsellor/Therapist, Ad.Dip.CP, DipHyp CS, Dip CP, MNCS (Acc), MHS, Counselling Cert, CACHE3, B.A. Honours Degree PsyCrim
Therapy can help you to work with your feelings, thoughts, perceptions, and internal or external conflict. It gives you the opportunity to reflect on what is happening within your life and yourself; reduce confusion; consider alternative ways of doing things, make positive changes and to move forward into the life you want.
15 Years Experience
Online in Kirkwall, Scotland (Online Only)
Depression
Dipak Jilka - Psychotherapist & Counsellor
Therapist, Psychotherapy & Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA) – PACFA Reg. Clinical 26570
May sound strange, but I view depression as a condition that requires deep investigation as opposed to treating, suppressing or distracting from. As a existentialist & humanist in my approach, I view depression as a crisis of meaning, freedom, and authenticity, often stemming from the despair of confronting life's inherent absurdity, mortality, and isolation. My invitation to you is to get intimate with your unique version of depression.
6 Years Experience
Online in Kirkwall, Scotland
Depression
Will Salter - Connected Man Counselling
Counsellor/Therapist, ACA member, L2 IFS trained, Diploma of Counselling
I support individuals experiencing anxiety, depression, stress, anger, relationship difficulties, challenges with self-worth, and major life transitions. My work focuses on helping people explore and process emotions, recognise recurring patterns, and build deeper connections with different parts of themselves
6 Years Experience
Online in Kirkwall, Scotland (Online Only)
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 Kirkwall, Scotland
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 Kirkwall, Scotland
Depression
Julie Kuhn - Counsellor & Supervisor
Counsellor/Therapist, Therapeutic Arts Counsellor BACP (Accred)
Counselling can help you to explore the root of your depression and regain your self-confidence. It can also give you tools to help and to create a plan for the future.
9 Years Experience
Online in Kirkwall, Scotland
Depression
Candida Stevens - Therapist & Coach
Registered Psychotherapist, MHGI, MSc, CBT-I
Depression can feel like a hole you are never going to get out of. Be reassured, all holes can be got out of with the right ladder. Help with identifying what has got you there, and looking at your lifestyle more broadly (exercise, nutrition, sleep) can be a significant part of recovery.
1 Years Experience
Online in Kirkwall, Scotland
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 Kirkwall, Scotland
Depression
Nicole Rolls
Counsellor/Therapist, PG Dip, MA, BACP Accred, EMDR Accred, 20 years experience as a Therapist
The sad feelings of Depression may lead you to having terrible thoughts. We can work together at understanding better what has led you to this state, learn to challenge those negative thoughts by reconnecting to the body, supporting difficult feelings and finding ways of reconnecting to a happier way of being in the world.
21 Years Experience
Online in Kirkwall, Scotland
Depression
Aleksei Panov
Registered Psychotherapist, MA Psy, MS Psy, RP
In dealing with depression, first of all, I help my clients to manage their physical symptoms of depression. When you are depressed, you have no energy to do anything, but the only way to deal with depression is to try to stay active. Not just active, but also relaxed. We will start slowly, step by step increasing your activity, improving your motivation and identifying automatic negative thoughts.
17 Years Experience
Online in Kirkwall, Scotland
Depression
Georgie Gee
Registered Psychotherapist, Masters in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy treats depression by addressing the underlying emotional conflicts, and maladaptive relationships patterns that can be at the root causes of depression symptoms.
19 Years Experience
Online in Kirkwall, Scotland
Depression
Sudeva Hawkes
Registered Psychotherapist, Registered Clinical Counsellor, B.Couns., MNCPS Accred. , PACFA Reg.
My aim is to create a safe space where you can look into the impact of Depression, a state that is often accompanied by Anxiety. It can be a scary place to be. I don't support the idea that you should be 'fixing' yourself, but rather encourage an exploration of that part of you which experiences melancholy, sadness or anxiety and how this originated. My way of working is singular, joining as it does clinical experience and the healing of trauma with meditation and mindfulness. My wish is to serve and support you in your authentic flowering, rather than to 'fix' you according to the expectations of conventional therapy.
29 Years Experience
Online in Kirkwall, Scotland (Online Only)
Depression therapists in Kirkwall, Scotland, United Kingdom Statistics
Depression therapists in Kirkwall, Scotland, United Kingdom average 15 years of experience and charge around ¤115 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The most commonly treated issues are Depression (100%), Anxiety or Fears (91%), and Self Esteem (76%).
Average years in practice
15 Years Experience
Average cost per session
¤115
Gender ID
| 69% |
Female |
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| 29% |
Male |
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| 1% |
Non-Binary |
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| 1% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 64% |
In Person and Online |
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| 36% |
Online Only |
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Top Specialties
| 100% | Depression |
| 91% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 76% | Self Esteem |
| 73% | Stress |
| 68% | Trauma and PTSD |
| 63% | Loss or Grief |
| 63% | Social Anxiety |