Depression Therapy in Los Angeles

Depression does not always look like not getting out of bed. For many people — especially high achievers, professionals, and those who have learned to keep going no matter what — it looks like functioning perfectly on the outside while feeling empty, disconnected, or quietly hopeless on the inside.

You may be carrying something that is hard to name. A flatness that shows up even in the good moments. A sense that you're going through motions without really being present in your own life. A tiredness that sleep doesn't fix.

This is real. And it has roots worth understanding.

What Depression Can Look Like

• Persistent low mood, flatness, or emotional numbness

• Going through the motions without feeling present or engaged

• Loss of interest in things that used to matter

• Fatigue that doesn't lift with rest

• Difficulty feeling joy, even during objectively good experiences

• Irritability, restlessness, or a short fuse

• Self-criticism, shame, or a harsh inner voice

High-Functioning Depression

Many of my clients navigating depression are also succeeding by conventional measures — working, producing, showing up. High-functioning depression is real, and it is particularly common among BIPOC professionals who have been conditioned to push through, stay resilient, and not let it show.

If this sounds familiar, you are not broken. You have been surviving. And there is more available to you than survival.

My Approach to Depression Therapy

My work with depression is psychodynamic — meaning we explore the roots, not just the symptoms. Where did this begin? What does it protect? What hasn't yet had space to be felt, grieved, or understood?

I integrate somatic and body-centered approaches to help regulate the nervous system and work with what depression holds in the body — the heaviness, the contraction, the sense of being cut off from yourself.

This is slow, relational work oriented toward lasting change.