Depression
Depression is more than sadness.
It can drain your energy, cloud your thinking, and make everyday life feel heavy. At Transcendent Self Therapy, we understand the weight of depression and offer support to help you navigate it. Together, we’ll work toward relief, resilience, and a renewed connection to yourself.
We all have our moments of sadness: crying, longing, loss… suffering is unavoidable and a part of the depth it is to be human. Depression is different than sadness. It is when suffering becomes overbearing and untenable. Depression is difficulty getting out of bed, keeping up with your hygiene, making and keeping appointments, maintaining relationships, completing your work, getting anything done. Depression feels like a thick blanket, although not any blanket you would actually want to feel nice and cozy, but rather a blanket that is smothering you, when it’s hard to breathe, when you don’t know how you will continue on.
So many people suffer in silence. They feel ashamed of their difficulties with functioning, and so they burrow further down into a hole of melancholy, and the hole just gets deeper. For some, depression looks like increased irritability and anger. For some, it’s a loss of interest in what used to give them pleasure, whether that’s hobbies or sex. For some, it’s difficulties with eating — either too much or not enough. For some, it’s issues with sleep — again too much or too little. For some, it’s the abuse of substances. And for some, it’s just a feeling of utter nothingness, blankness, deadness. A desire to “just not exist.”
Can you imagine feeling better, more like yourself again? If it’s hard to do so, we will hold that hope for you. We will work with you to understand your pain, to find your voice, to explore your wants, to assert your needs, to heal. Through our therapeutic relationship, you will find meaning again or perhaps for the first time in your life. You will build a sense of self worth that you may not have even conceived was possible. You can feel better, and we are here to help you in that process of change.
What Depression Feels Like — More than Just a Low Mood
We all feel sad sometimes. But depression is different. It can feel like:
A heavy, suffocating blanket wrapped tight — everything becomes harder.
Barely getting through daily tasks: rising, washing, socializing, working — even when you want to.
A numb void, emptiness or blankness that swallows hope.
A shift in your inner tone: irritability, emptiness, loss of meaning, or even anger.
Insomnia or sleeping too much, appetite changes (eating more or less), or substance use seeking “relief.”
A wish to “just not exist anymore,” or a fading sense of self.
For many, depression is silent suffering — a deep, isolating ache that’s often hidden, and misunderstood.
We Hold Hope With You
Imagine glimpsing something better: yourself, reawakening.
Even if you can’t see it yet, we’ll hold that possibility together. Through a deep, compassionate therapeutic process, you can:
Uncover and speak your pain
Reconnect to your needs, wants, and voice
Rebuild self-worth, even if it feels foreign now
Discover meaning, even amid the darkness
Return — bit by bit — to more of yourself
Yes — you can feel better, perhaps more fully than you have in years.
Our Therapeutic Approach to Depression
We don’t just aim to “fix symptoms.” We partner with you to address root causes, integrate your inner experience, and cultivate sustainable strength.
Deep Inquiry
We’ll explore beliefs, wounds, patterns, and narrative threads that feed depression.Somatic & Mindful Regulation
Practices to re-regulate your nervous system: breathwork, body awareness, grounding, interoception.Inner Dialogue & Compassion
Working with inner critics, reframing shame, developing self-compassion and attunement.Values & Activation
Identify what matters. Take small, meaningful actions even when motivation is low.Integration & Resilience
With dedicated effort, you will be able to respond to life’s challenges with more presence, flexibility, and authenticity.
Who This Helps Most
You might benefit from working together if you:
Feel stuck, flattened, or disconnected
Struggle with everyday functioning (work, relationships, self-care)
Know you’re “not just sad” but don’t know what’s wrong
Want more than surface coping — you want deeper change
Are ready (or curious) to try a different lens of healing
What You May Notice Over Time
A subtle lightening of inner heaviness
More curiosity about your feelings rather than shutdown
Tiny steps of re-engagement with life (joy, connection, interest)
A gentler inner voice — more kindness to yourself
Greater stability, presence, responsiveness rather than reactivity