Hosted by AnchoredHeart Counseling LLC
Christian Counselor, MS, BCCT, CCATP
Group meets in Cumming, GA 30040
This group is a safe space for teens who have lived through suicide. We explore the deep beliefs we’ve developed about ourselves, others, and the world causing these attempts. These beliefs can shape how you feel, how you react, and how you see yourself and others. We’ll gently uncover these beliefs, and begin to shift them toward truth, safety, and self-worth for lasting change. There’s no pressure to share more than you’re ready for. Healing happens in your own time. This is a space for honesty, connection, and growth.
Hosted by Anna Moriarty
Licensed Professional Counselor, MPS, LPC, LMHC, CPCS, ACS
Group meets in Cumming, GA 30041
I have had over 25 years experience assisting individuals and families with finding successful outcomes. I developed, trademarked and copyrighted Core Belief Therapy. This therapy helps you grow in your awareness of core beliefs and how they affect your thoughts, emotions and behaviors so that you can find healing from painful experiences and ultimately live with lasting happiness and peace.
An 18 week online group therapy experience will help you identify and work towards a meaninful life dream. Whether you want to make new friendships, find employment, or start dating, every goal is possible! This group is designed to cover three 6 week modules based on learning the social, thinking, and problem solving skills that will support you in achieving your full potential. Become mroe independent, have better conversations, and improve your self-confidence. Each week, we will trouble shoot obstacles and build new skills together.
Hosted by Kassie Love
Marriage & Family Therapist, Kassie Love, LAMFT, MPH
Group meets in Cumming, GA 30041
Some days, it feels like there is a never-ending storm cloud hanging over you. No matter how hard you try, you can’t shake overwhelming emotions. One moment, you’re on top of the world, and the next you’re plunged into deep despair without any reason. It’s exhausting to feel like something terrible is always about to happen. Even the smallest setback triggers a cascade of negative thoughts that feel inescapable. The voices in your head are constant and upsetting. You feel helpless, exhausted, and misunderstood—even by your family and loved ones.
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Depression Support Groups
What is the goal of therapy for depression?
Therapy for depression has several major goals. One is to relieve the mental pain of depression, which distorts feeling and thinking so that sufferers cannot see beyond their current state of mind or envision feeling better. Another is to give people the mental tools to recognize and correct the kinds of distorted thinking that turn a problem into a catastrophe and lead to despair. Therapy also teaches people how to process negative emotions in constructive ways, so they have more control over their own emotional reactivity. And it helps people regain the ability to see themselves positively, the motivation to do things, and the capacity for pleasure.
What happens in therapy for depression?
Perhaps most important, no matter the type of therapy, patients form an alliance with the therapist; that connection is therapeutic in itself, plus it becomes an instrument of change. Patients learn to identify and to challenge their own erroneous beliefs and thoughts that amplify the effects of negative experiences. They learn to identify situations in which they are especially vulnerable. And they learn new patterns of thinking and behaving. They may be given “homework” assignments in which they practice their developing skills. In addition, good therapists regularly monitor patients to assess whether and how much the condition is improving.
What therapy types help with depression?
Several types of short-term therapy have been found effective, each targeting one or more areas of dysfunction. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps clients challenge their negative thoughts and beliefs, learn new behavioral strategies, and curb reactivity to distressing situations. Behavioral activation (BA) is a form of therapy often used in conjunction with CBT; it focuses on engagement in rewarding activity as a pathway to changing negative feelings and disturbed mood. Another widely used approach is interpersonal therapy (IPT), which targets the social difficulties that both give rise to and get exacerbated by depression. Therapists may combine approaches as needed.
Can therapy for depression be done online?
Studies have found that online therapy can be highly effective for treating depression, although it may be more challenging to build a good therapist-patient alliance on screen than in person—at least at first. However, online therapy can offer considerable advantages. Accessibility and convenience are tops among them. Some people actually find it easier to talk about problems online than in person. While online therapy typically limits visibility of facial expression and body gestures that give important nonverbal cues to a patient’s state of mind, it can give therapists a glimpse into a patient’s world and life, providing information that can be highly useful in guiding therapy.
How effective is therapy for depression?
Many studies show that therapy is highly effective provided that patients complete the prescribed course of therapy, commonly 16 to 20 sessions. Over the long term, it is more effective than medication and the effects are more enduring. As a result, psychotherapy has the power not just to relieve current suffering but to prevent future episodes of the disorder. Therapy reverses the dysfunction in neural circuitry that disposes individuals to a negative view of themselves, the world, and their future and they acquire coping techniques, problem-solving skills, and understanding of their own vulnerabilities that are useful over the course of a lifetime.