Depression therapists in Cowichan Bay, BC
Browse Depression therapists in Cowichan Bay, British Columbia, Canada. Compare credentials, specialties and therapeutic approach. Contact a therapist to learn more.
Depression
Strength in Heart Counselling
Treatment Center, RSW, RCC, CCC
Depression can feel heavy and isolating, but you don’t have to face it alone. We offer compassionate support and practical tools to help lift your mood and restore hope. Our approach is focused on helping you rediscover meaning and joy in life.
8 Years Experience
In-Person Near Cowichan Bay, BC
Online in Cowichan Bay, BC
Depression
Adria Lipsett
Counsellor/Therapist, MA, Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC)
I offer compassionate, evidence-based care for those struggling with depression. My approach helps you explore underlying causes, build coping skills, and rediscover hope. I am here to support you every step of the way toward healing.
11 Years Experience
In-Person Near Cowichan Bay, BC
Online in Cowichan Bay, BC
Depression
Melissa MacNeill
Counsellor/Therapist, RCC, CCC, Certified EFIT, EFCT, and EFFT Therapist, MACP
Depression is a natural response to feelings of loneliness and hopelessness. If you're feeling disconnected from others, or lacking confidence in your abilities to accomplish your desires, depression naturally follows. I'll help you identify how you're currently coping and explore new ways of engaging with your emotions. You'll experience a new way of interacting with the world that can help to alleviate negative feelings and amplify the joy you feel in life. I'll work with you to help you develop the confidence to reengage with life and the people you love.
5 Years Experience
In-Person Near Cowichan Bay, BC
Online in Cowichan Bay, BC
Depression
Arne Pedersen - Hypnotherapy Victoria
Hypnotherapist, RCCH
Feeling stuck in a cycle of sadness and despair? As a therapist specializing in depression, I provide a safe and supportive space for individuals to explore their emotions and develop coping strategies. Through mindfulness practices and hypnotherapy techniques, we'll work together to uncover underlying issues, challenge negative thought patterns, and cultivate a renewed sense of hope and purpose.
15 Years Experience
In-Person Near Cowichan Bay, BC
Online in Cowichan Bay, BC
Depression
Lincoln Stoller
Counsellor/Therapist, PhD, CHt, CCPCP
Depression is straightforward: it's a delusion. Being distressed is a circumstantial condition, feeling hopeless is an attitude, but being depressed is a state of self destruction. The circumstances may be real and your attitude reasonable, but you need to be rid of the self-destructive energy of depression. Unlike other strategies which offer coping or secondary benefits, depression offers no benefit.
The first step in addressing depression is to recognize it as a kind of disease. This provides no relief, but it can be the foundation of your commitment to change. You must realize that you can overcome depression and that you deserve to. In my experience, depression rests on low self esteem. This is hard to see when you are depressed, but it's not hard to see for those who know you well. Depressed people typically have spent their lives compensating and, as a result, are often highly accomplished.
I had bouts of depression as a graduate student and my father, a successful photographer, struggled with depression after retirement. My seriously depressed clients have all been older people whose problems are compounded by feelings of aimlessness and lack of relevance.
I have found talk therapy to be of little help with depression. Conversation can temporarily lighten a person's mood, but this has no enduring benefit.
Hypnotherapy has proven to be beneficial because it can address issues of identity, value, purpose, and meaning. Psychedelics have also been reported beneficial, but the types of depression to which this applies as well as the nature of the support that's required remain unclear.
Brain training plays a large and typically unrecognized role, and this is a pity. The fact that neither cognitive redirection nor pharmaceutical intervention relieve clinical depression indicates that depression has a strong neurological component. I combine rational-emotive therapy with brain training. This training IS broadly useful in achieving balance and it's inexpensive, effective, simple, easy, painless, and has no side effects. It involves different configurations of transcranial electrical stimulation that you cannot feel but your brain can perceive. Tools of this sort are overlooked because practitioners in the psycho-therapeutic community have generally no knowledge of the brain's role in psychological conditions.
I've worked for almost three decades following research and therapy in brain training. I've worked with the best engineers and clinicians in the fields of EEG neurofeedback and diagnosis. Despite the dramatic evidence of positive effect, brain training has gotten little attention, is not taught, and continues to be under-utilized and overlooked. It seems to require a level of technical, medical, mathematical, and therapeutic skill that does not yet exist in the psycho-therapeutic field. There are sadly few therapists like myself who are able to effectively address depression using these tools.
Finally, the circumstances that maintain depression take time and effort to change. Many people lack the resolve to change their circumstances, and being depressed limits them further. In addition to education, training, and healing, a depressed person needs support and encouragement. Depression is curable, but it takes a therapist who is more skilled than most.
21 Years Experience
In-Person Near Cowichan Bay, BC
Online in Cowichan Bay, BC
Depression
Michelle Iulianella Counselling & Psychotherapy
Counsellor/Therapist, BEd, MBA, MA, RCC
Depression shows up differently for everyone. It can show up as pervasive and persistent low mood, anger, sadness, hopelessness, helplessness and a lack of interest or pleasure in activities that once sparked happiness. It can also show up for people as feelings of worthlessness, shame and guilt, as well as trouble concentrating and making decisions. Depression can manifest in the body as fatigue, too much or too little sleep and marked changes in appetite. Reoccurring suicidal ideation and self-annihilation fantasies can also be common when one is experiencing clinical or situational depression. A complex interplay of factors can contribute to the development of depression, including brain chemistry, life stressors and genetic predisposition. Michelle knows that it is essential to seek help when experiencing depression; she works with clients who are experiencing chronic depression and situational depression as the result of life stressors.
11 Years Experience
In-Person Near Cowichan Bay, BC
Online in Cowichan Bay, BC
Depression
Our Landing Place
Therapist, RCC, CCC, RSW, RP, RCT
We walk alongside folks living with depression, offering gentle, affirming support that honours the weight you’re carrying while working toward relief, meaning, and connection—at your pace.
16 Years Experience
Online in Cowichan Bay, BC (Online Only)
Depression
Dena Marie Counselling & EMDR Therapy
Counsellor/Therapist, MEd, RCC
Struggling to get out of bed, feeling numb or disconnected, going through the motions without really being present — depression can make even small things feel heavy. Using EMDR, I help you gently process the underlying experiences, patterns, or memories contributing to low mood, lack of motivation, or hopelessness, so their emotional weight starts to lift rather than just being managed day to day. Over time, this helps you feel more grounded, energized, and able to engage with life in a way that feels balanced and meaningful again.
4 Years Experience
Online in Cowichan Bay, BC (Online Only)
Depression
Linda Szeto
Therapist, RCC, CCC
Depression can leave you feeling sad, stuck, exhausted, disconnected, or like life has become harder to manage. You might be struggling with past experiences, current circumstances, worries about the future, or a sense that things aren't going to change. My approach draws on EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Brainspotting, and somatic approaches to help you work through difficult experiences and emotions that may be contributing to how you're feeling. The goal is to feel less weighed down, feel more hopeful, and find more room to move forward.
1 Years Experience
Online in Cowichan Bay, BC (Online Only)
Depression
Theodosia Daflos
Counsellor/Therapist, MA
While everyone feels down from time to time, the experience of clinical depression is something else entirely. Clinical depression can include many physical symptoms, like changes in energy, exhaustion, sleep problems, and body pains, as well as overwhelming negative thoughts that can make it difficult to think that you will ever feel better. Using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, we will slowly work on identifying these negative thoughts and slowly help you start doing the things that are important to you in your life, which breaks the cycle of depression.
15 Years Experience
Online in Cowichan Bay, BC (Online Only)
Depression therapists in Cowichan Bay, BC Statistics
Depression therapists in Cowichan Bay, BC average 11 years of experience and charge around $164 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The top treatment approaches are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (63%), Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) (53%), and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) (48%).
Average years in practice
11 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$164
Accept insurance
68%
Offer sliding scale
52%
Gender ID
| 72% |
Female |
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| 24% |
Male |
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| 2% |
Gender Fluid |
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| 2% |
Non-Binary |
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Session Type
| 62% |
In Person and Online |
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| 38% |
Online Only |
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Top Treatment Approaches
| 63% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 53% | Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) |
| 48% | Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) |
| 47% | Internal Family Systems (IFS) |
| 42% | Somatic Therapy |
| 40% | Existential / Humanistic Therapy |
| 39% | Narrative Therapy |
Ages Served
| 100% | Adult |
| 73% | Young Adult |
| 58% | Senior |
| 49% | Teen |
| 14% | Children |
Client Focus
| 64% | Women |
| 52% | Men |
| 45% | LGBTQ+ |
| 33% | Persons with Disabilities |
| 32% | Christian |