Compassionate, results-focused guidance
Depression is a real pain
Colorado Springs counselor Patty Lee offers relief
Depression tires you out, makes you feel bad about yourself, interferes with your sleep, makes you eat too much or not enough and robs you of your concentration. Not to mention the feelings of guilt or shame that can lead to feeling hopeless. In a word, depression stinks.
The good news is that there is hope and help for depression. The most effective treatment for depression includes exercise, counseling and medication. Through compassionate and brief yet results-focused counseling I will help you change your behaviors, your thoughts, and your depression. Together we will focus on solutions tailored to your particular situation. Your counseling will involve a number of different approaches and techniques including:
- Learning to pay attention to your self-talk so you can change what you say to yourself.
- Cognitive behavioral techniques that teach you to monitor your thoughts and choose new behaviors and responses.
- EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing) for transforming traumatic memories into more neutral ones.
- Hypnosis and guided imagery for enhancing self-esteem.
- Learning stress management techniques.
- Homework assignments designed for practicing behavior changes between sessions.