Is it depression or just low mood?

Low mood lifts within days and usually has an identifiable cause. If flatness, exhaustion or loss of interest has persisted for weeks, is affecting your sleep, work or relationships, or you can't point to a reason for it, it's worth taking seriously — whatever label ends up fitting.

Can therapy really help with depression?

Yes. Talking therapy is one of the best-evidenced treatments for depression, on its own or alongside medication. It works partly through the approaches used and partly through the relationship itself — depression thrives in isolation, and therapy is a structured way of no longer being alone with it.

Do you work with neurodivergent clients?

Yes. I have CPD training in neurodiversity and work with autistic and ADHD adults (diagnosed, self-identified, or exploring). Therapy adapts to how you're wired — pacing, communication style, sensory needs, and recognising that some struggles are related to load and brain wiring. Nothing about being neurodivergent needs fixing; the difficulties that come with living unaccommodated often benefit from support.

How do we start, and what does it cost?

We begin with a free 20-minute online consultation to see if we're a good fit. Ongoing sessions are £90, with limited concessionary rates available for those who need them.

If you're struggling to keep yourself safe, please see the note further down this page — help is available right now.

Depression

Q: Do you offer depression therapy near me in Clapham or Tonbridge?

Yes — in person in Clapham (South London) and Tonbridge (Kent), and online via Zoom across the UK.

Depression is more than sadness. Sadness usually has a specific reason and often passes. Depression is heavier and flatter than that; a persistent greyness that drains the colour and meaning out of things that used to matter, and makes even small tasks feel like wading through mud.

One of its cruellest tricks is convincing you that this is simply how things are, and how you are, rather than a state you're in. It isn't. Depression is common, it's treatable, and it says nothing about your worth or your strength. Some of the strongest people I've worked with arrived carrying it.

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Common signs & symptoms

Persistent low mood; losing interest in things you used to enjoy; changes to sleep, e.g. too little or far too much; constant tiredness that rest doesn't fix; difficulty concentrating or making decisions; withdrawing from people; feeling worthless, guilty or numb.

Depression also lives in the body: appetite changes, heaviness, aches with no obvious cause.

Recognising these as depression rather than laziness, weakness, or "just how I am" is important, because it changes the question from "what's wrong with me?" to "what's happening to me, and what can help?"

What causes depression?

Depression usually has several roots tangled together: family history and biology, painful or depriving early experiences, loss, chronic stress, isolation, and life circumstances that would weigh anyone down. Sometimes there's an obvious trigger; sometimes it descends without one, which can feel especially bewildering. Part of our work is understanding what feeds yours because that

informs what will actually help.

Depression takes different forms

For some people it's a severe episode, sometimes with thoughts of not wanting to be here. For others it's a long, low-grade flatness that's been running in the background for years. Some people experience depression interspersed with periods of unusually high energy, creativity and drive. Each pattern needs a different response, which is why getting to know your particular experience is really important.

Trauma and depression

Like anxiety, depression can have roots in trauma. Abuse, neglect, significant losses can cast long shadows, and depression is sometimes the form that shadow takes years later. Where that's true, working with the underlying experience, not just the low mood, is what makes change last.

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How therapy can help

Depression tells you that nothing will help, which is precisely why it's so hard to reach out; so if you've read this far, that's already something.

In therapy we'll work at the level you need: understanding the roots of your depression, gently challenging the thought patterns that keep it fed, rebuilding the basics that depression dismantles like sleep, movement, contact with people. We'll also work on finding your way back to a meaningful and purposeful life, i.e. not just the absence of symptoms.

A note if you have ADHD or suspect you might: "rebuild your routines" is advice that assumes routines are buildable by deciding to build them. If executive function is genuinely challenging for you, that advice can seem like one more thing you're failing at. The principle still holds, i.e. light, movement, contact help, but the route to get there will need careful scaffolding rather than relying on willpower, and that's part of what we'd work out together.

Because depression affects every part of life, the approach has to be a whole-life one, and as an integrative therapist that's exactly how I work.

Depression therapy in Clapham, Tonbridge and online

I see clients for depression in person in Clapham (South London) and Tonbridge (Kent), and online via Zoom right across the UK.

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Book a free 20 minute chat

If you're finding it hard to keep yourself safe, please don't wait for a therapy appointment.

In the UK, you can

call the Samaritans free, any time, day or night, on 116 123
contact NHS 111 and select the mental health option, or
call 999 or go to A&E in an emergency.

Reaching out in a moment like that isn't weakness. It's exactly the right move.