Atlantic Counseling Services have therapists who specialize in multi-cultural issues, grief, trauma, pre-marital therapy; marriage conflict, divorce, blended family issues, depression, anxiety, bipolar, sexuality/sexual issues, forensic counseling, and religious and spiritual issues.
Hosted by Atlantic Counseling Services
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, LCSW, PsyD
Verified Verified
Group meets in Savannah, GA 31405
We provide quality, confidential clinical mental health care to members of Coastal Georgia and are dedicated to providing low-cost, effective services to all members of our community. We have over 70 years of combined experience providing Clinical Mental Health Services to Coastal Georgia.
Faith-based group that focuses on the relief of anxiety, depression, and stress. Improve your adaptability and resiliency Do it with Stable Steps Strengths!
Hosted by Stable Steps TeleTherapy
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, PMHNP, BC
Verified Verified
Group meets in Savannah, GA 31419
We use solution focused therapy to assess your strengths, to help you reach your goals. Narrative therapy will help you rewrite your story for the happy ending you deserve! We use cognitive behavioral techniques to help you reframe negative thoughts to positive thoughts. No matter your struggle, we’re here to see you, hear you, and provide real help.
Men, women, marginalized communities, and mothers of children with special needs.
Hosted by Sandra Smith
Associate Professional Counselor, MA, LAPC, NCC
Verified Verified
Group meets in Savannah, GA 31404
Are depression, anxiety, trauma, grief, and life transitions leaving you feeling overwhelmed, unmotivated, and like a burden to others?
I draw from a few therapeutic modalities and tailor my approach to meet your unique needs. I offer a safe, supportive, and encouraging environment where clients can tell their story, at their own pace, and feel heard.
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Dialectical Behavior Therapy is a structured therapy that focuses on teaching four core skills (mindfulness, acceptance & distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness) to help you create a good life. You work on those skills through a series of lessons and then start applying them to your life. DBT is a type of cognitive behavioral therapy. CBT focuses on helping people change unhelpful thought patterns. DBT takes those CBT ideas or challenging unhelpful thought patterns, but also adds additional elements like mindfulness, acceptance and distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills to give you more tools for dealing with hard situations.
Hosted by Jean Goldthwait
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LCSW, LISW-CP
Verified Verified
Group meets in Pooler, GA 31322
Specialties: Marital and Premarital Counseling, Family Conflict, Anxiety, Depression, Coping Skills, Bi Polar Disorder, Personality Disorders, Parenting, Family Counseling, Self Esteem, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Addiction
Everyone has challenges and struggles in life. It takes a courageous person to seek help. Your healing can begin now! I will assist you in overcoming challenges in a safe, positive atmosphere - No judgement here. I am a skills-based therapist that focuses on your strengths and with partner with you to formulate a plan to achieve positive change. Let me assist you with assessing your goals and teach you the skills to achieve them! It would be my sincere privilege to partner with you in your personal journey toward healing. There is hope and change is possible.
This is a 4 week course for adults dealing with breast cancer and it’s effects on daily life. This course offers strategies and tools for how to address the emotional piece to healing after a diagnosis. Key areas addressed: the purpose of emotions, irrational vs. rational thinking, acceptance and how to get there, being present in life’s moments, reconciling the past and facing the future, applying these strategies to real life.
Hosted by Julia Jerome
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC
Verified Verified
Group meets in Pooler, GA 31322
I want to assist individuals, couples, and families, ages birth to 99+, on their chosen paths to living a healthy, mentally stable lifestyle by creating a safe, compassionate, and caring environment where individuals are free to be themselves, where they are comfortable in their own skins, where they can identify their strengths, identify their goals, and pursue those goals on their timeline. I also want to strive to help families define their normal and achieve that vision, while developing a positive self-esteem, healthy coping skills, and appropriate boundaries.
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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.