Depression Therapy in Chicago
When vitality, interest, or meaning feels muted.
Depression may involve sadness, emptiness, fatigue, withdrawal, irritability, or a sense that ordinary life has become difficult to enter.
Psychoanalytic and psychodynamic therapy can attend to depression as more than a symptom to remove. It can open inquiry into grief, anger, disappointment, attachment, loss, self-criticism, and the parts of life that may feel unavailable.
Depression often carries a history.
Some forms of depression are visible through tears or withdrawal. Others are quieter: functioning well outwardly while feeling flat, distant, ashamed, or unable to want very much.
Treatment provides a place to speak without rushing toward a forced optimism. The work may involve listening closely to grief, anger, inhibition, longing, and the meanings that have gathered around loss, desire, and self-worth.
Depression can also be tied to unspoken disappointment, the pressure to function, longstanding self-criticism, loneliness, or a quiet retreat from what once mattered. Psychodynamic treatment can help give language to what has become muted, distant, or difficult to want.
Book an appointmentDepression can obscure anger, grief, and desire.
Some people experience depression as heaviness; others experience it as distance from themselves. A person may continue working, caring for others, or meeting obligations while privately feeling depleted, resentful, ashamed, or unable to imagine change.
Psychodynamic therapy can explore the meanings attached to loss, disappointment, dependency, ambition, anger, and longing. It can also examine how a person learned to quiet certain needs, turn criticism inward, or withdraw from situations that feel too risky to want.
For some, depression is connected to grief that has not found language. For others, it may be linked to anger that feels dangerous, dependency that feels humiliating, or a history of having to appear fine before one felt understood.
FAQ.
Can depression appear without constant sadness?
Yes. Depression may appear as flatness, irritability, fatigue, withdrawal, loss of interest, difficulty beginning, or the sense that life has become less reachable.
How does psychodynamic therapy approach depression?
Treatment may explore grief, anger, disappointment, attachment, shame, and self-criticism, along with the history and relationships that give depression meaning.
Do you offer depression therapy in Chicago?
Yes. Nicole Glass, MA, LCPC offers psychotherapy for adults in Chicago and throughout Illinois.