Depression Therapists in Charlottesville, VA
I help clients manage anxiety, lift the weight of depression, and navigate relationship challenges.
Life can be challenging, but support is here. I’m Jessica, a mental health professional with 20 years of experience helping adults of all ages navigate life’s difficulties. I provide compassionate, evidence-based therapy tailored to each individual, drawing from my work in community mental health centers, hospitals, and home care. My goal is to help you build resilience, gain insight, and live a more meaningful, fulfilling life in a safe and supportive environment.
I help clients manage anxiety, lift the weight of depression, and navigate relationship challenges.
Life can be challenging, but support is here. I’m Jessica, a mental health professional with 20 years of experience helping adults of all ages navigate life’s difficulties. I provide compassionate, evidence-based therapy tailored to each individual, drawing from my work in community mental health centers, hospitals, and home care. My goal is to help you build resilience, gain insight, and live a more meaningful, fulfilling life in a safe and supportive environment.
Navigating life’s challenges can be stressful, especially if you are experiencing anxiety, depression, or issues related to past trauma.
To support you in reaching your goals, I will help you learn coping strategies, improve communication skills, and process past trauma that may be contributing to your current challenges. I take a strengths-based approach and use a variety of therapeutic modalities, including CBT, structural family therapy, and EMDR.
Navigating life’s challenges can be stressful, especially if you are experiencing anxiety, depression, or issues related to past trauma.
To support you in reaching your goals, I will help you learn coping strategies, improve communication skills, and process past trauma that may be contributing to your current challenges. I take a strengths-based approach and use a variety of therapeutic modalities, including CBT, structural family therapy, and EMDR.
I believe that healing happens when you feel truly seen. If you feel like you are on an emotional roller coaster: battling waves of anger or feeling a profound sense of loneliness, I want you to know your desire for connection and understanding is valid. My practice is built on radical empathy, validation, and a touch of humor. Together: we will look at your story, make sense of the way you feel, and identify the strengths you already possess-even if you have lost sight of them.
I believe that healing happens when you feel truly seen. If you feel like you are on an emotional roller coaster: battling waves of anger or feeling a profound sense of loneliness, I want you to know your desire for connection and understanding is valid. My practice is built on radical empathy, validation, and a touch of humor. Together: we will look at your story, make sense of the way you feel, and identify the strengths you already possess-even if you have lost sight of them.
I work with adults and teens navigating depression, anxiety, perfectionism, life transitions, relationship challenges, the effects of trauma, and other concerns.
The heart of my work as a therapist is creating a warm, nonjudgmental space where you feel truly seen and heard. When your experiences are met with empathy and acceptance, your nervous system can begin to relax—often bringing a sense of relief right away. From there, it becomes possible to gently explore patterns in your thoughts and behaviors—patterns that once protected or served you but now may be keeping you from living the life you want. Together, we’ll approach these patterns with compassion and curiosity, opening the door to lasting change.
I work with adults and teens navigating depression, anxiety, perfectionism, life transitions, relationship challenges, the effects of trauma, and other concerns.
The heart of my work as a therapist is creating a warm, nonjudgmental space where you feel truly seen and heard. When your experiences are met with empathy and acceptance, your nervous system can begin to relax—often bringing a sense of relief right away. From there, it becomes possible to gently explore patterns in your thoughts and behaviors—patterns that once protected or served you but now may be keeping you from living the life you want. Together, we’ll approach these patterns with compassion and curiosity, opening the door to lasting change.
Chasity is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Virginia who believes that healing begins the moment someone feels truly seen, heard, and understood.
She is dedicated to helping individuals, couples, and families strengthen relationships, navigate trauma, and foster meaningful personal growth. With a background rooted in both military culture and mental health, Chasity brings over a decade of experience supporting children, adolescents, and families facing complex emotional and relational challenges.
Chasity is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Virginia who believes that healing begins the moment someone feels truly seen, heard, and understood.
She is dedicated to helping individuals, couples, and families strengthen relationships, navigate trauma, and foster meaningful personal growth. With a background rooted in both military culture and mental health, Chasity brings over a decade of experience supporting children, adolescents, and families facing complex emotional and relational challenges.
How are you feeling? tough question to be asked especially with the swirling energy of these times—so much movement, change, and uncertainty. It’s easy to feel unmoored. But within the chaos, there’s a quiet place we can return to: the heart center. It took time to find mine—and the journey is still unfolding. My path began in the world of business, but after years of deep inner work and breaking long-held patterns, I found my true calling: guiding others through meaningful transformation. This isn’t just theory—I’ve lived it. If something in you is stirring, trust it. Your path is unfolding, and you don’t have to walk it alone...
How are you feeling? tough question to be asked especially with the swirling energy of these times—so much movement, change, and uncertainty. It’s easy to feel unmoored. But within the chaos, there’s a quiet place we can return to: the heart center. It took time to find mine—and the journey is still unfolding. My path began in the world of business, but after years of deep inner work and breaking long-held patterns, I found my true calling: guiding others through meaningful transformation. This isn’t just theory—I’ve lived it. If something in you is stirring, trust it. Your path is unfolding, and you don’t have to walk it alone...
I’m Kara Tracy, a Licensed Professional Counselor with 5+ years helping teens and adults navigate trauma, life transitions, anxiety, depression, grief, infertility, and substance challenges.
Need a safe space to be heard and supported? I offer empathy, honesty, and full attention, moving at your pace. Together, we’ll empower you to live a healthier, happier, and more fulfilling life—your goals, your treatment, your growth.
I’m Kara Tracy, a Licensed Professional Counselor with 5+ years helping teens and adults navigate trauma, life transitions, anxiety, depression, grief, infertility, and substance challenges.
Need a safe space to be heard and supported? I offer empathy, honesty, and full attention, moving at your pace. Together, we’ll empower you to live a healthier, happier, and more fulfilling life—your goals, your treatment, your growth.
I help clients manage anxiety, lift the weight of depression, and navigate relationship challenges.
Looking for a clinician who provides compassionate, personalized care for children, teens, and adults? Meet Loma Gulley.
Loma brings over eight years of experience working across a variety of settings, including outpatient agencies, inpatient crisis stabilization centers, substance use programs, therapeutic day programs, case management, and school-based services. She specializes in individual therapy tailored to each client’s needs.
I help clients manage anxiety, lift the weight of depression, and navigate relationship challenges.
Looking for a clinician who provides compassionate, personalized care for children, teens, and adults? Meet Loma Gulley.
Loma brings over eight years of experience working across a variety of settings, including outpatient agencies, inpatient crisis stabilization centers, substance use programs, therapeutic day programs, case management, and school-based services. She specializes in individual therapy tailored to each client’s needs.
I help teens, adults, couples, and professionals address trauma, anxiety, depression, burnout, and relationship challenges.
Something is not working, and you can feel it. The anxiety that used to come and go has become a constant companion. The trauma you thought you had moved past still shows up in your relationships, your body, and your ability to be present. You are tired of just getting through each day, managing symptoms while something deeper remains unaddressed. Maybe you have tried therapy before and it helped on the surface but never reached the root of what is really going on. You are ready for something different, something grounded in real science and tailored to how your brain actually works.
I help teens, adults, couples, and professionals address trauma, anxiety, depression, burnout, and relationship challenges.
Something is not working, and you can feel it. The anxiety that used to come and go has become a constant companion. The trauma you thought you had moved past still shows up in your relationships, your body, and your ability to be present. You are tired of just getting through each day, managing symptoms while something deeper remains unaddressed. Maybe you have tried therapy before and it helped on the surface but never reached the root of what is really going on. You are ready for something different, something grounded in real science and tailored to how your brain actually works.
I help clients manage anxiety, lift the weight of depression, and navigate relationship challenges.
Everyone deserves a safe, affirming space to be fully themselves. Frankie, a Licensed Professional Counselor with advanced degrees in Counseling Psychology and Sociology, supports individuals, couples, and those exploring identity, relationships, and life’s challenges. Passionate about working with the LGBTQIA+ community and allies, Frankie provides a warm, nonjudgmental environment where clients feel truly seen and heard. Their compassionate, person-centered approach helps clients build confidence, heal, and grow into their most authentic selves.
I help clients manage anxiety, lift the weight of depression, and navigate relationship challenges.
Everyone deserves a safe, affirming space to be fully themselves. Frankie, a Licensed Professional Counselor with advanced degrees in Counseling Psychology and Sociology, supports individuals, couples, and those exploring identity, relationships, and life’s challenges. Passionate about working with the LGBTQIA+ community and allies, Frankie provides a warm, nonjudgmental environment where clients feel truly seen and heard. Their compassionate, person-centered approach helps clients build confidence, heal, and grow into their most authentic selves.
Morgan (Soper) Hickman
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSSW, LCSW
1 Endorsed
Charlottesville, VA 22902
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who specializes in working with adults (18+) who struggle with depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), and difficulty coping with medical issues.
My hope is to develop a therapeutic relationship with you and earn your trust to work towards your personal goals. I understand the daunting task of finding the right therapist, and I would love to connect with you to help you overcome barriers so you can find true fulfillment and contentment in your life.
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who specializes in working with adults (18+) who struggle with depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), and difficulty coping with medical issues.
My hope is to develop a therapeutic relationship with you and earn your trust to work towards your personal goals. I understand the daunting task of finding the right therapist, and I would love to connect with you to help you overcome barriers so you can find true fulfillment and contentment in your life.
My approach to therapy uses Internal Family Systems, an insight-oriented therapy which is a powerful method for understanding conflict, trauma, and defenses, and for promoting healing, change, self-empowerment and self-compassion. I view the counseling process as a partnership and an opportunity for you to learn more about yourself. We will honor the patterns that have kept you safe in the past, while at the same time gently removing the barriers that have kept you from being the person you wish to be. I utilize EMDR in my work as well to address trauma that happened long ago, as well as any recent trauma.
My approach to therapy uses Internal Family Systems, an insight-oriented therapy which is a powerful method for understanding conflict, trauma, and defenses, and for promoting healing, change, self-empowerment and self-compassion. I view the counseling process as a partnership and an opportunity for you to learn more about yourself. We will honor the patterns that have kept you safe in the past, while at the same time gently removing the barriers that have kept you from being the person you wish to be. I utilize EMDR in my work as well to address trauma that happened long ago, as well as any recent trauma.
I help clients manage anxiety, lift the weight of depression, and navigate relationship challenges.
I find particular fulfillment in working with clients who are facing substance use challenges and have not yet engaged in recovery or explored treatment options. These individuals often bring a raw honesty and openness that allows for meaningful exploration and growth.
With approximately 35 years of experience, I’ve worked with a wide range of clients—including teens, adults, and older adults.
I genuinely enjoy meeting new people and getting to know their stories. I offer a warm, welcoming presence and strive to be a thoughtful listener. I believe in the resilience of the human spirit and the power of connection in fostering change
I help clients manage anxiety, lift the weight of depression, and navigate relationship challenges.
I find particular fulfillment in working with clients who are facing substance use challenges and have not yet engaged in recovery or explored treatment options. These individuals often bring a raw honesty and openness that allows for meaningful exploration and growth.
With approximately 35 years of experience, I’ve worked with a wide range of clients—including teens, adults, and older adults.
I genuinely enjoy meeting new people and getting to know their stories. I offer a warm, welcoming presence and strive to be a thoughtful listener. I believe in the resilience of the human spirit and the power of connection in fostering change
Did you know you are never more than 1 thought away from a different life? I suspect if you are reading this you'd probably like to know how to do that. Whether it's problems with a partner, questioning your sexuality/gender, difficulty with colleagues or family, I can help you see a different way to tackle those problems. I offer a revolutionary way of doing CBT that allows you to see things and thus feel things differently...and quickly. Let's see if we can't make your life look more like what you want and need. Let's do it with insight and laughter, both of which I provide.
Did you know you are never more than 1 thought away from a different life? I suspect if you are reading this you'd probably like to know how to do that. Whether it's problems with a partner, questioning your sexuality/gender, difficulty with colleagues or family, I can help you see a different way to tackle those problems. I offer a revolutionary way of doing CBT that allows you to see things and thus feel things differently...and quickly. Let's see if we can't make your life look more like what you want and need. Let's do it with insight and laughter, both of which I provide.
Contemplative presence--heart-presence--is effective in transforming anxiety and depression, but serves also to initiate a more accurate and profound unfolding of our life as embodied earthlings.
My approach is gentle, and heartful. It is also good science, grounded in trainings devoted to strengthening the bonds with oneself, others, and the earth around us. What initially may seem stuck or unbearable is introduced to a source of health that is already within you. The opportunity in crisis, and the wisdom within torments, is something you will begin to notice. This noticing begins the discovery that we can, each of us, even within the most strained relationships, bring ourselves to an authentic, courageous stance. And ultimately toward an ever-deepening Love. Your experience of this forms the heart of what I offer.
Contemplative presence--heart-presence--is effective in transforming anxiety and depression, but serves also to initiate a more accurate and profound unfolding of our life as embodied earthlings.
My approach is gentle, and heartful. It is also good science, grounded in trainings devoted to strengthening the bonds with oneself, others, and the earth around us. What initially may seem stuck or unbearable is introduced to a source of health that is already within you. The opportunity in crisis, and the wisdom within torments, is something you will begin to notice. This noticing begins the discovery that we can, each of us, even within the most strained relationships, bring ourselves to an authentic, courageous stance. And ultimately toward an ever-deepening Love. Your experience of this forms the heart of what I offer.
I have provided Counseling Services in our Charlottesville community. I work with a variety of individuals, presenting problems, and life span issues. From adolescence to later life years; there are circumstances and predispositions which offer incredible challenges in life. I have training in many forms of techniques and approaches. I offer services including Cognitive Behavioral Techniques, Dream Analysis ,Mindfulness practices, Guided Imagery in Music, Mediation, Coaching & Career Development, Self-Exploration & Expanding Definition practices. My intention and role as a Therapist is to use my training and experience to help my Clients manifest a better life experience.
I have provided Counseling Services in our Charlottesville community. I work with a variety of individuals, presenting problems, and life span issues. From adolescence to later life years; there are circumstances and predispositions which offer incredible challenges in life. I have training in many forms of techniques and approaches. I offer services including Cognitive Behavioral Techniques, Dream Analysis ,Mindfulness practices, Guided Imagery in Music, Mediation, Coaching & Career Development, Self-Exploration & Expanding Definition practices. My intention and role as a Therapist is to use my training and experience to help my Clients manifest a better life experience.
We help clients manage anxiety, lift the weight of depression, and navigate relationship challenges.
Done feeling tired and burned out? We’re confident we can help you achieve your therapy goals. At Lifebulb, we believe the best results come from working with a therapist who is not only skilled but truly passionate about helping you. That’s why we created Lifebulb—to give therapists a space where they can enjoy their work, so you can receive the highest quality care, whether in person at one of our locations or online via telehealth. Our licensed, highly trained clinicians are dedicated to supporting you throughout the therapy process, ensuring real results.
We help clients manage anxiety, lift the weight of depression, and navigate relationship challenges.
Done feeling tired and burned out? We’re confident we can help you achieve your therapy goals. At Lifebulb, we believe the best results come from working with a therapist who is not only skilled but truly passionate about helping you. That’s why we created Lifebulb—to give therapists a space where they can enjoy their work, so you can receive the highest quality care, whether in person at one of our locations or online via telehealth. Our licensed, highly trained clinicians are dedicated to supporting you throughout the therapy process, ensuring real results.
Therapeutically, I regularly work with clients experiencing relationship challenges, depression, anxiety, life transitions, cultural adjustment, eating disorders, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, aging-related concerns, work stress, self-esteem struggles, substance use, and issues of self-acceptance.
Maintaining relationships can be one of the hardest work we do in life. Healthy relationships require intention, consistency, thoughtfulness, and a willingness to care for ourselves as well as for others. When differences arise in values, beliefs, communication styles, life experiences, or cultural backgrounds, it can be difficult to feel understood or connected. I help individuals and couples navigate these differences, discover new perspectives, and develop strategies to strengthen understanding and connections.
Therapeutically, I regularly work with clients experiencing relationship challenges, depression, anxiety, life transitions, cultural adjustment, eating disorders, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, aging-related concerns, work stress, self-esteem struggles, substance use, and issues of self-acceptance.
Maintaining relationships can be one of the hardest work we do in life. Healthy relationships require intention, consistency, thoughtfulness, and a willingness to care for ourselves as well as for others. When differences arise in values, beliefs, communication styles, life experiences, or cultural backgrounds, it can be difficult to feel understood or connected. I help individuals and couples navigate these differences, discover new perspectives, and develop strategies to strengthen understanding and connections.
I became familiar with working with a wide variety of individuals in need of mental health care, from substance use disorders and postpartum PTSD to situational depression and panic disorder, drawing therapeutic interventions from a broad mix of treatment styles, from Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Emotion Focused Therapy to Psychodrama and Mindfulness.
Do you want to learn more about yourself and how you walk through life? Do you experience difficulties in areas that others seem to have a relatively easy time managing? I’m a licensed clinical social worker in Virginia and California (license numbers: VA: 0904013582, CA: 99619). I spent my internship years working with dementia patients as well as gaining experience with the chronic pain population. By working in the intensive outpatient program environment,
I became familiar with working with a wide variety of individuals in need of mental health care, from substance use disorders and postpartum PTSD to situational depression and panic disorder, drawing therapeutic interventions from a broad mix of treatment styles, from Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Emotion Focused Therapy to Psychodrama and Mindfulness.
Do you want to learn more about yourself and how you walk through life? Do you experience difficulties in areas that others seem to have a relatively easy time managing? I’m a licensed clinical social worker in Virginia and California (license numbers: VA: 0904013582, CA: 99619). I spent my internship years working with dementia patients as well as gaining experience with the chronic pain population. By working in the intensive outpatient program environment,
Life doesn’t always go as planned …and that’s okay. Whether you’re navigating a major transition, processing trauma, adjusting to pregnancy or motherhood, or simply feeling stuck, I’m here to walk alongside you with honesty, warmth, and genuine care.
My approach is grounded and direct. I believe in meeting you where you are, not where anyone thinks you should be. I work with adults, children, and teens who are ready for therapy and start healing, even when it feels hard. If spirituality is an important part of your journey, I welcome that into our sessions as well.
Life doesn’t always go as planned …and that’s okay. Whether you’re navigating a major transition, processing trauma, adjusting to pregnancy or motherhood, or simply feeling stuck, I’m here to walk alongside you with honesty, warmth, and genuine care.
My approach is grounded and direct. I believe in meeting you where you are, not where anyone thinks you should be. I work with adults, children, and teens who are ready for therapy and start healing, even when it feels hard. If spirituality is an important part of your journey, I welcome that into our sessions as well.
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Depression Therapists
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.