KNOXVILLE & FORT LAUDERDALE DEPRESSION COUNSELING

You might be prescribed a medication management program with a care team who helps evaluate different medications' effectiveness in treating some of your depression symptoms.

If you are currently on medication for depression or other mental health disorders, we can help evaluate the effectiveness of that particular prescription on your symptoms and teach you skills through things like cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness training that make it such that you won't have to rely on medication for the majority of your symptoms.

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Cognitive behavioral therapy at our Tennessee depression treatment center can help address some of the tertiary symptoms of an anxiety disorder, like depression. With cognitive behavioral therapy, you learn to identify your automatic thoughts and replace them. So instead of automatically thinking that if someone wants to talk with you, they must be disappointed in you, you might learn to automatically think that you are not a mind reader, and it could be good or bad, but you won't worry about it until you know. Similar to DBT, with CBT, you meet at our Tennessee anxiety treatment center for your individual or group therapy sessions. During those sessions, you will:</span>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Learn to identify negative, automatic thoughts like mind reading, all-or-nothing thinking, perfectionism, or labeling. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Learn how to replace these with positive automatic thoughts. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Improve your self-esteem and learn how to be more mindful of the present moment. </span></li>
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Learning to practice mindfulness and meditation gives you a tool you can integrate into daily life. Meditation and mindfulness skills can be practiced whenever you feel any symptoms arise. 

• If you are preparing for a meeting at work and you are suddenly nervous about your proposal, you can take a few seconds or a couple of minutes at your desk to close your eyes and focus on your breathing, being mindful of your present environment and how you are feeling.
• If you are in the middle of an adventure therapy activity with a group, tackling an outdoor sport like rock climbing, and you are suddenly too scared to move, you can pause and use mindfulness and meditation to help you reduce your heart rate, be focused on the present instead of the future where you might fall, or the past where you did fall.
• If you are in an uncomfortable social situation and someone says something that elicits an immediate response of anger or frustration, you can use mindfulness meditation to focus on your breathing, turn your attention inward long enough to identify what emotions you are feeling and let them pass instead of acting on them.