Online Winter SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder)
This is an online group for people wit signs and symptoms of SAD, which may include: Feeling listless, sad or down most of the day, nearly every day. ... Fall and winter SAD Trouble sleeping (insomnia) Poor appetite. Weight loss. ...
Hosted by Astrid Couples And Family Counsellor Machalitza
Registered Psychotherapist, BSc, MA, RP
Verified Verified
Group meets in Waterloo, ON N2K
This is an online group for people wit signs and symptoms of SAD, which may include: Feeling listless, sad or down most of the day, nearly every day. ... Fall and winter SAD Trouble sleeping (insomnia) Poor appetite. Weight loss. ...
Online: Help with depression, anxiety, trauma
This group is an open, drop-in group for everyone who deals with depression, anxiety, and trauma. As we can only become free from suffering if we walk through our emotions, I offer this group, where we will get to know ...
Hosted by Astrid Couples And Family Counsellor Machalitza
Registered Psychotherapist, BSc, MA, RP
Verified Verified
Group meets in Waterloo, ON N2K
This group is an open, drop-in group for everyone who deals with depression, anxiety, and trauma. As we can only become free from suffering if we walk through our emotions, I offer this group, where we will get to know ...
Hopewoods Psychotherapy & Consulting Services
Hopewoods is a Toronto based psychotherapy and consulting team, featuring registered psychotherapists, social workers and clinical counsellors with diversified specialties in counselling. We provide individual, couples and family therapy with individualized treatment approaches to act in concert with each and ...
Hosted by Sharon Xiao-Rong Zong
Registered Psychotherapist, RP, RSW, MSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in Markham, ON L3R
Hopewoods is a Toronto based psychotherapy and consulting team, featuring registered psychotherapists, social workers and clinical counsellors with diversified specialties in counselling. We provide individual, couples and family therapy with individualized treatment approaches to act in concert with each and ...
Creative Calm art therapy workshops
Creative Calm Art therapy (group or individual) sessions available for kids, teens and adults to develop mindfulness, build emotion regulation and increase relaxation. Groups are every WED evening on line for 1 hour. (materials extra) List of materials provided prior ...
Hosted by Corene Jonat
Registered Psychotherapist, RP, BA, ExAT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Oakville, ON L6M
Creative Calm Art therapy (group or individual) sessions available for kids, teens and adults to develop mindfulness, build emotion regulation and increase relaxation. Groups are every WED evening on line for 1 hour. (materials extra) List of materials provided prior ...
Teen Matters- Online/Video
Life could be demanding & stressful for youth. Social situations like bullying, family challenges like moving, divorce, and grief, and medical/learning challenges like, chronic illness, ADHD/Depression/Anxiety/T rauma or learning disabilities affect the social development of youth. Teen Matters will provide ...
Hosted by Johnson Family Counseling
Registered Psychotherapist, MA, RP, CCC, LPC, RPT-S
Verified Verified
Group meets in Newmarket, ON L3Y
Life could be demanding & stressful for youth. Social situations like bullying, family challenges like moving, divorce, and grief, and medical/learning challenges like, chronic illness, ADHD/Depression/Anxiety/T rauma or learning disabilities affect the social development of youth. Teen Matters will provide ...
DBT Skills
Our group is a fun and interactive atmosphere where participants learn new skills to overcome their challenges. It is also an opportunity to meet other people who share similar struggles. We use activities to facilitate the learning experience. You will ...
Hosted by Suzanne McMullin
Registered Social Worker, MSW, RSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in Angus, ON L0M
Our group is a fun and interactive atmosphere where participants learn new skills to overcome their challenges. It is also an opportunity to meet other people who share similar struggles. We use activities to facilitate the learning experience. You will ...
Integration Online Groups
Please join me monthly for a workshop on Integration. I will lead us in a meditation and use Himalayan Singing Bowls. This class is free for the first session.
Hosted by Hilary Lupton
Registered Social Worker, MSW , RSW , BA
Verified Verified
Group meets in London, ON N6P
Please join me monthly for a workshop on Integration. I will lead us in a meditation and use Himalayan Singing Bowls. This class is free for the first session.
Online OCD Support Group
The OCD Support Group is a small group of male and female adults that have struggled with depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, or a similar issue. It focuses on issues that can be barriers to treatment progress, such as feelings of ...
Hosted by Kate Caldwell
Registered Psychotherapist, RP
Verified Verified
Group meets in Ottawa, ON K1N
The OCD Support Group is a small group of male and female adults that have struggled with depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, or a similar issue. It focuses on issues that can be barriers to treatment progress, such as feelings of ...
Self Ease for Singles
This group helps women who feel stuck and unhappy with being single. Whether you have been in relationships or never had one this group will help by supporting your goals. By looking at unhealthy beliefs, behaviours and trauma associated with ...
Hosted by Self-Ease Solutions Counselling & Life-Coaching
PC, Coach, Reiki
Verified Verified
Group meets in Mississauga, ON L5V
This group helps women who feel stuck and unhappy with being single. Whether you have been in relationships or never had one this group will help by supporting your goals. By looking at unhealthy beliefs, behaviours and trauma associated with ...
Abundant Living Counselling Group
ALCG is a client-centered team of psychotherapists providing counselling services throughout the Ottawa area. We offer individual, couple, family, and group counselling to help clients overcome challenges like depression, anxiety, grief, relationship issues, infidelity, professional challenges and life transitions. With ...
Hosted by Bob West
Marriage & Family Therapist, RP, RMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Nepean, ON K2G
ALCG is a client-centered team of psychotherapists providing counselling services throughout the Ottawa area. We offer individual, couple, family, and group counselling to help clients overcome challenges like depression, anxiety, grief, relationship issues, infidelity, professional challenges and life transitions. With ...
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Skills Group
DBT Virtual's online 12-week group program is designed to provide you with effective, practical coping strategies to regulate intense emotions and replace unhealthy, problematic behaviours. You will learn DBT skills aimed at managing emotional and interpersonal difficulties, including mindfulness, distress ...
Hosted by DBT Virtual - DBT Program in ON, BC, AB & NS
Registered Social Worker, MSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in Toronto, ON M4W
DBT Virtual's online 12-week group program is designed to provide you with effective, practical coping strategies to regulate intense emotions and replace unhealthy, problematic behaviours. You will learn DBT skills aimed at managing emotional and interpersonal difficulties, including mindfulness, distress ...
Israeli Social workers & Psychologists
Our group is a collaboration of Israeli therapists who provide services in Hebrew to sexual abuse and trauma clients of all ages. Having the ability to express themselves with therapists in their first language gives our clients immediate feelings of ...
Hosted by Hana Rotchild
Registered Social Worker, MSW, RSW, DTATI
Verified Verified
Group meets in Ancaster, ON L9G
Our group is a collaboration of Israeli therapists who provide services in Hebrew to sexual abuse and trauma clients of all ages. Having the ability to express themselves with therapists in their first language gives our clients immediate feelings of ...
8-Week Online Mindfulness Training Program (MBCT)
This evidence-based program has been proven to reduce stress levels, anxiety, depression (reduced risk of relapse by ~ 50%), increase positive emotions, improve attention/focus, improve immune functioning, sleep and enhance relationships. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) combines the practice of mindfulness ...
Hosted by Angie Kingma
Registered Psychotherapist, BA , BHScOT, RP
Verified Verified
Group meets in Milton, ON L9T
This evidence-based program has been proven to reduce stress levels, anxiety, depression (reduced risk of relapse by ~ 50%), increase positive emotions, improve attention/focus, improve immune functioning, sleep and enhance relationships. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) combines the practice of mindfulness ...
Attached and Stressed
Join this exciting new group to understand more about your attachment style and how it impacts the quality of your relationship, emotional intimacy, and how you deal with conflict. Being with a securely attached partner can positively impact your quality ...
Hosted by Cherish's Oasis Counselling
Registered Social Worker, MSW, RSW, RP
Verified Verified
Group meets in Toronto, ON M4S
Join this exciting new group to understand more about your attachment style and how it impacts the quality of your relationship, emotional intimacy, and how you deal with conflict. Being with a securely attached partner can positively impact your quality ...
Stress Management for Students Program
Work one-on-one with a registered psychotherapist through a 6 week treatment plan designed to improve stress management in secondary and post-secondary students. Offered in person (Burlington) or online (anywhere in Ontario). Includes evidence-based techniques from CBT and DBT. $100+HST per ...
Hosted by Tara Watson
Registered Psychotherapist, MA, RP
Verified Verified
Group meets in Burlington, ON L7R
Work one-on-one with a registered psychotherapist through a 6 week treatment plan designed to improve stress management in secondary and post-secondary students. Offered in person (Burlington) or online (anywhere in Ontario). Includes evidence-based techniques from CBT and DBT. $100+HST per ...
Adolescent & Young Adult Therapy Group
In person group. Over an eight week period, two Registered Psychotherapists will work with participants to uncover and manage issues and contributing factors related to loneliness, isolation, depression and anxiety. Focused topics include identity, sexuality, worldview, family, social connections and ...
Hosted by David Johnston
Registered Psychotherapist, RP, CRPO, OCT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Oakville, ON L6J
In person group. Over an eight week period, two Registered Psychotherapists will work with participants to uncover and manage issues and contributing factors related to loneliness, isolation, depression and anxiety. Focused topics include identity, sexuality, worldview, family, social connections and ...
How to Talk
Hosted by Redpill and Incel Treatment
RSW, MSW, BSW, AMHW
Verified Verified
Group meets in Toronto, ON M1T
ReVamp Group Therapy
Revamp Group Therapy is a 6 week group that uses trauma informed ACT therapy to help you work on your mental health and wellness. Group Goals: 1. Help you create a meaningful life 2. Teach you the skills to handle ...
Hosted by Gray Matter Health -Brampton Psychotherapists
Registered Social Worker, MSW, RSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in Brampton, ON L6V
Revamp Group Therapy is a 6 week group that uses trauma informed ACT therapy to help you work on your mental health and wellness. Group Goals: 1. Help you create a meaningful life 2. Teach you the skills to handle ...
GJ Counselling
We work with individuals, couples and families. We address all kinds of topics from anxiety and depression, to workplace stress and burnout, interpersonal conflict, stress management, parenting struggles, social anxiety, anger management, adhd & existential crises. We also offer workshops ...
Hosted by Graham Watt
Registered Psychotherapist, MACP, RP-Q
Verified Verified
Group meets in Guelph, ON N1H
We work with individuals, couples and families. We address all kinds of topics from anxiety and depression, to workplace stress and burnout, interpersonal conflict, stress management, parenting struggles, social anxiety, anger management, adhd & existential crises. We also offer workshops ...
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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 recognise 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 behavioural therapy (CBT) helps clients challenge their negative thoughts and beliefs, learn new behavioral strategies, and curb reactivity to distressing situations. Behavioural 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.