THERE IS STILL LIFE HERE.
HOW CAN DEPRESSION THERAPY
HELP YOU?
Sometimes the hardest part of depression isn't the sadness.
It's the absence of feeling.
The things that once mattered don't seem to matter as much anymore. The things you once enjoyed no longer hold your interest. You may feel exhausted by everyday responsibilities, disconnected from the people you love, or increasingly uncertain about what you're working toward.
Maybe you're spending more time alone. Avoiding messages. Putting off decisions. Going through the motions of work, school, parenting, or relationships while privately wondering how long you can keep doing this.
Or maybe nothing looks particularly wrong from the outside.
You have friends. A family. A career. A full calendar. You laugh at the right moments, show up when you're expected, and continue doing the things that need to get done.
And yet something feels profoundly different on the inside.
You may feel empty. Irritable. Numb. Ashamed. Trapped.
You may find yourself asking questions you never imagined you'd ask.
What happened to me?
Why can't I feel happy about the things I have?
What if this is as good as it gets?
Depression can make it difficult to remember what it feels like to feel any other way. When we've been in the darkness long enough, it can begin to feel like the only reality available to us.
At Three Birds Counseling, we don't believe that your hardest moments define who you are—or determine what the rest of your life must look like.
We also don't believe that healing requires pretending life is easier than it is.
Life can be painful. Disappointing. Unfair. Exhausting.
And still, there can be more.
More connection. More laughter. More curiosity. More meaning. More experiences worth having.
We want to help you find your way back to the parts of life that depression may have made difficult to see, feel, or believe are possible.
EXPLORE DEPRESSION THERAPY
AT THREE BIRDS
Depression can affect how we think, feel, connect, and experience the world. Explore how we help you understand what's happening, develop the capacity for change, and make room for hope, meaning, and a fuller life.
WHAT IS DEPRESSION—AND HOW DOES IT
SHOW UP IN REAL LIFE?
Depression is more than having a bad day, going through a difficult season, or occasionally feeling sad.
Sadness is part of being human. We feel it when we're disappointed, when something matters to us, when we've experienced loss, or when life isn't unfolding the way we hoped.
Depression can include sadness, but it often reaches into many more parts of our experience.
It can affect sleep, appetite, energy, concentration, memory, motivation, relationships, and our ability to experience interest or pleasure.
It can change how we see ourselves, how we interpret other people's behavior, and what we imagine is possible for our future.
Sometimes depression feels intensely painful.
Other times it feels like almost nothing at all.
Depression Doesn't Always Look Like Sadness
Depression doesn't always look like someone crying in bed or being unable to get through the day.
It may look like a successful professional who can't remember the last time they felt genuinely excited about anything.
A parent who loves their children deeply but feels increasingly overwhelmed, irritable, or disconnected.
A college student attending classes and turning in assignments while feeling profoundly alone.
Someone who is always making jokes, showing up for friends, and appearing to have everything together.
Or someone who has become quieter, withdrawn, less interested in relationships, or increasingly exhausted by ordinary responsibilities.
Depression can be visible.
It can also be extraordinarily well hidden.
We want to understand what depression looks like in your life—not make assumptions based on how you appear to others.
When Depression Narrows Our World
Depression has a way of changing the size of our world.
Things that once felt manageable begin requiring enormous effort.
We stop making plans because we don't expect to enjoy them. We withdraw from relationships because we don't have the energy to explain how we're feeling. We stop pursuing opportunities because we can't imagine anything turning out differently.
And often, the less we participate in life, the fewer opportunities we have to experience the things that might help us feel connected, interested, or hopeful again.
Our lives can become increasingly small.
Not necessarily because we want less from life.
But because we begin to lose access to the motivation, energy, and belief that participating in life is worth the effort.
One of our goals in depression therapy is to help you begin making your world larger again.
Depression, Hopelessness & the Future
One of depression's most painful effects is the way it can change our relationship with the future.
You may begin to believe that nothing will improve. That the ways you feel today are the ways you'll always feel. That what you've lost cannot be replaced and what you've hoped for will never arrive.
These thoughts can be incredibly convincing.
But the difficulty imagining a different future is not proof that a different future is impossible.
We help people recognize how depression influences their thoughts, expectations, and sense of possibility—and begin making room for experiences they may not yet be able to imagine.
Your darkest moments do not get to define your entire story.
DEPRESSION, SHAME & THE STORIES
WE TELL ABOUT OURSELVES
YOU ARE MORE THAN THE HARDEST THINGS YOU'VE EXPERIENCED.
Depression doesn't only affect how we feel.
It can profoundly affect how we understand ourselves.
A disappointment becomes evidence of failure.
A mistake becomes proof that we're incapable.
A relationship ending becomes confirmation that we're unlovable.
Something difficult happens, and instead of recognizing it as an experience we're having, we begin treating it as a statement about who we are.
Understanding Healthy Guilty & Toxic Shame
In therapy, we often explore the important distinction between guilt and shame and when both can be helpful or destructive.
Guilt can be an appropriate, useful response when our behavior has hurt someone or violated our values. It can help us recognize responsibility, make amends, learn, and do something differently.
Shame can become much more consuming when it moves beyond what we've done and begins shaping how we understand our entire identity.
I made a mistake becomes I am a mistake.
I disappointed someone becomes I am a disappointment.
I failed at something becomes I am a failure.
This kind of pervasive, toxic shame can make growth especially difficult because it leaves so little room for being human.
We want to help people develop the capacity to recognize mistakes, accept responsibility, and make changes without turning their imperfections into evidence that they're fundamentally inadequate or unworthy.
When Depression Becomes Your Most Convincing Narrator
Depression can be extraordinarily persuasive.
It may tell you that you're a burden, that you've failed, that you're not lovable, or that other people would be better off without you.
And because these thoughts may be repeated for months or years, they can begin to feel familiar—and eventually, true.
But familiarity isn't the same as accuracy.
In therapy, we help people examine the beliefs they've come to hold about themselves.
Where did this belief come from?
What experiences reinforced it?
What information might you be overlooking?
And what happens when you organize your life around the assumption that this painful belief is true?
We're not interested in replacing every difficult thought with an artificially positive one.
We're interested in helping you develop a more accurate, flexible, compassionate, and complete understanding of yourself.
When We Begin Rejecting the Very Care We Want
Sometimes our expectations of rejection become so familiar that even acceptance can feel unsettling.
We may want connection while simultaneously finding reasons to distrust it.
We may dismiss compliments, minimize someone's affection, pull away when someone gets close, or unintentionally invite the very rejection we fear.
Sometimes being loved challenges the painful beliefs we've spent years using to understand ourselves.
If I've convinced myself that I'm fundamentally unlovable, accepting someone's genuine affection requires me to reconsider a story that has become deeply familiar.
This can feel surprisingly vulnerable.
We help people become curious about these patterns and gradually develop the capacity to receive care, connection, and acceptance without feeling that they must first become perfect or prove they're deserving.
DEPRESSION, ISOLATION & FINDING OUR WAY BACK TO CONNECTION
WE ARE NOT MEANT TO CARRY EVERYTHING ALONE.
Depression can pull us inward.
When we're hurting, exhausted, ashamed, or overwhelmed, our attention naturally turns toward our own distress.
We become increasingly focused on what feels wrong, what we've lost, what we cannot change, and what might never get better.
This isn't selfishness. It's one of the ways suffering can narrow our attention.
But when we spend too long isolated inside our own pain, we can lose contact with the people, experiences, and purposes that remind us we're part of something larger.
The Painful Cycle of Withdrawal
Withdrawing can feel protective.
If we stay home, we don't have to explain why we're struggling.
If we don't reach out, we don't risk feeling like a burden.
If we keep our distance, we don't have to feel exposed, disappointed, or rejected.
Sometimes rest and solitude are exactly what we need.
But sometimes the habits we develop to protect ourselves from discomfort begin reinforcing the loneliness and hopelessness we're already experiencing.
We may begin believing that nobody cares, while simultaneously making it increasingly difficult for people to reach us.
The goal isn't to force ourselves into constant social activity.
It's to recognize when isolation is helping us recover—and when it's keeping us disconnected from the relationships and experiences we need.
Letting Ourselves Be Known
One of the most powerful experiences we can have is being known by another person and discovering that the relationship can survive what they learn about us.
We can tell someone something difficult.
Allow them to see our sadness, anger, regret, fear, or shame.
And discover that they don't automatically leave.
That our imperfections don't erase our value.
That a difficult interaction doesn't have to mean a relationship is over.
This is one reason the therapeutic relationship matters so much to us.
Good therapy isn't only about gaining insight into our experiences.
It can also offer opportunities to experience vulnerability, honesty, disagreement, care, and connection in ways that begin to challenge old expectations.
And over time, we hope these experiences help you develop greater confidence in your relationships outside the therapy room.
Finding Meaning Beyond Ourselves
When depression turns our attention inward, sometimes an important part of healing involves reconnecting with something beyond our immediate experience of suffering.
Another person.
A community.
A cause.
A responsibility that matters to us.
Something we want to learn, create, contribute, protect, or care for.
This isn't about insisting that everyone needs a grand purpose or must become useful to others in order to deserve care.
It's about remembering that our lives exist in relationship with a larger world.
We influence others. Others influence us.
We belong to families, friendships, communities, and experiences that can offer meaning even when we're struggling to find it within ourselves.
Sometimes connection and purpose help us remember that there is more to our story than the pain we're currently experiencing.
FINDING HOPE, MEANING &
THE COURAGE TO KEEP LIVING
HOPE IS NOT THE ABSENCE OF PAIN.
We talk a lot about hope at Three Birds.
But not the kind of hope that asks you to ignore suffering, pretend everything happens for a reason, or find something positive in every painful experience.
We don't believe those expectations are particularly helpful.
Sometimes life is devastating.
People die. Relationships end. Our bodies change. Dreams don't come true. People disappoint us. We disappoint ourselves.
There are realities we cannot undo, and losses that deserve to be grieved rather than explained away.
Hope doesn't require us to deny any of that.
Instead, we think of hope as the willingness to leave room for possibility—even when we cannot yet imagine what that possibility might look like.
Turning Toward the Pain
When something hurts, it makes sense to want to move away from it.
We numb. Distract. Avoid. Overwork. Stay busy. Pull away from relationships. Try to convince ourselves that what happened didn't matter.
Sometimes these strategies help us survive experiences that feel too overwhelming to confront all at once.
But over time, avoiding painful realities can also keep us organized around them.
We may spend enormous amounts of energy trying not to feel something that continues influencing our lives anyway.
One of the most meaningful parts of therapy can involve gradually turning toward what hurts.
Allowing ourselves to grieve.
To acknowledge disappointment.
To recognize anger, fear, regret, or longing.
To tell the truth about experiences we've spent years trying not to face.
This work isn't about seeking out suffering or pushing ourselves beyond what we can safely tolerate.
It's about making enough room for our experiences that we no longer have to spend our lives running from them.
Sometimes the way forward begins with becoming willing to face where we are.
Radical Acceptance & Making Peace with Reality
Acceptance is often misunderstood.
It doesn't mean liking what happened.
It doesn't mean believing something was fair, justified, or acceptable.
And it doesn't mean giving up on the possibility of change.
Radical acceptance involves acknowledging reality as it is, rather than exhausting ourselves fighting against the fact that something has already happened or that something is currently true.
This is where I am.
This is what happened.
This is what I cannot change.
And now, what is possible from here?
We can grieve what should have been different.
We can hold people accountable.
We can take action where change is possible.
And we can begin releasing the struggle against realities we cannot undo.
Sometimes that shift creates space for us to direct our energy toward the life we still have available to live.
Gratitude Without Forced Positivity
Gratitude can be meaningful.
But we don't believe it should become another demand placed on people who are already suffering.
You don't have to feel thankful for what hurt you.
You don't have to identify a lesson in every loss.
You don't have to be grateful simply because someone else has it worse.
You can be angry about what happened and grateful for what remains.
You can grieve what you've lost while appreciating something beautiful in the present.
You can acknowledge how hard life has been and still allow yourself moments of laughter, pleasure, connection, or delight.
Those experiences don't cancel one another out.
We want to help you develop the capacity to hold more than one truth at a time.
Life can be hard. And there can still be good things within it.
Resilience, Survival, & Psychological Triumph
We have worked with people who have experienced extraordinary suffering.
People who have survived experiences they never imagined they could survive.
And what often stays with us isn't simply the magnitude of what they've endured.
It's the humor they still find.
The relationships they continue to build.
The curiosity they rediscover.
The tenderness, generosity, or gratitude that can exist alongside enormous grief.
Resilience doesn't mean suffering leaves us untouched.
And survival doesn't mean we must transform every painful experience into a success story.
Sometimes resilience is simply continuing.
Sometimes it's asking for help.
Sometimes it's discovering that we can begin again after something has ended.
And sometimes it's reaching a point where we can look back at what nearly consumed us and recognize that it did not get to become the entirety of our story.
We don't have to be grateful for the darkness.
But we can become grateful that it isn't the only thing that exists.
OUR APPROACH TO DEPRESSION &
MOOD DISORDER TREATMENT
COMPASSION, CONNECTION & BUILDING CAPACITY FOR REAL LIFE.
At Three Birds Counseling, we believe good therapy involves more than talking about what's wrong.
Understanding matters.
Feeling heard matters.
Having a place where you can speak honestly about experiences you may not share anywhere else matters.
But we also want therapy to help you do something different.
Our approach is active, collaborative, compassionate, and tailored to your needs.
We want to understand the experiences that contributed to your depression, the patterns that may be maintaining it, and the kinds of changes that could help you reconnect with your life.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy & Challenging Painful Beliefs
Depression often influences how we interpret ourselves, other people, and the future.
Using cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), we help identify patterns of thinking that may be rigid, inaccurate, self-defeating, or shaped by shame.
Together, we consider alternative information, challenge unhelpful assumptions, and practice developing a more flexible relationship with our thoughts.
We're interested in helping you recognize that thoughts can feel convincing without necessarily being true.
Behavioral Activation: Moving Before Motivation Returns
One of depression's most difficult cycles involves the relationship between mood, energy, motivation, and behavior.
When we feel depressed, it can become difficult to do the things that previously helped us feel connected, capable, or interested in life.
So we stop doing them.
And because we're doing less of what brings meaning, pleasure, movement, or connection, our mood may worsen.
Behavioral activation helps us begin interrupting that cycle.
Sometimes this involves reestablishing daily routines, returning to activities we've abandoned, increasing social connection, or taking small steps toward something personally meaningful.
We don't expect you to suddenly feel motivated.
Instead, we work collaboratively to identify realistic actions that fit your current capacity—and build from there.
Sometimes motivation follows action rather than preceding it.
Acceptance, Self-Compassion, & Emotional Flexibility
Not every painful feeling needs to be fixed immediately.
Sometimes we're grieving.
Sometimes we're angry.
Sometimes we're disappointed by realities we cannot change.
We help people distinguish between experiences that need care and acceptance and patterns that may benefit from active change.
The goal isn't to eliminate every uncomfortable feeling.
It's to become increasingly capable of experiencing the full range of human emotions without feeling completely defined or controlled by them.
Relational Therapy & the Experience of Connection
We believe relationships can be powerful sources of healing.
We pay attention to the patterns that influence how you seek support, respond to closeness, handle disappointment, manage conflict, and understand your own value within relationships.
Sometimes the therapeutic relationship itself becomes an opportunity to practice something new: being known, asking for help, tolerating vulnerability, repairing after conflict, or allowing another person to care without feeling that you must earn it.
Our hope is that these experiences support greater connection and confidence beyond therapy.
Meaning, Purpose, & Values-Based Living
Depression can leave people feeling directionless.
Sometimes the question isn't simply, How do I stop feeling so bad?
It's also, What matters to me?
What kind of life do I want to participate in?
Who do I want to become?
What am I willing to care about, even though caring makes me vulnerable?
We help people explore values, relationships, identity, and meaningful goals without requiring them to have everything figured out.
Sometimes purpose is something we discover.
Sometimes it's something we gradually create through the ways we choose to live.
Supporting Change Without Taking Over
We believe in your capacity to grow, heal, and develop greater confidence in your own abilities.
That doesn't mean expecting you to do everything alone or pushing you beyond what you're able to manage.
It means providing the support, collaboration, structure, and encouragement you need while leaving room for your own agency to develop.
We can sit with you in the darkness.
We can help you recognize possibilities you may not currently see.
We can offer perspective, practical strategies, and hope when yours feels difficult to access.
But ultimately, we want you to experience yourself as the person who can begin taking the next step.
Our goal isn't for you to need therapy forever. It's to help you develop the capacity to meet your own life with greater confidence, connection, and freedom.
DEPRESSION & MOOD CONCERNS
ACROSS LIFE STAGES
Depression affects people differently across the lifespan. We tailor our approach to the person, their developmental needs, and the circumstances of their life.
Depression Therapy For Children
Children don't always have the words to explain when they're feeling depressed, overwhelmed, or disconnected. Sometimes their emotional struggles show up in their behavior long before they're able to describe what they're experiencing.
Depression in children may look like irritability, frequent frustration, withdrawal, changes in sleep or appetite, difficulty concentrating, increased sensitivity, physical complaints, or a loss of interest in activities and friendships they once enjoyed.
Some children become quieter and more withdrawn. Others seem increasingly angry, reactive, or difficult to comfort.
At Three Birds Counseling, we work to understand what's happening beneath the surface of a child's behavior. We consider their developmental needs, relationships, family dynamics, school experiences, and emotional world rather than focusing only on the symptoms adults can see.
Through developmentally appropriate therapy, we help children recognize and express emotions, strengthen coping skills, develop a healthier sense of themselves, and reconnect with the people and experiences that help them feel capable, supported, and engaged in life.
We also believe that supporting children means supporting the adults who care for them. When appropriate, we collaborate with parents and caregivers to help them better understand their child's emotional needs, respond effectively to distress, and create opportunities for connection and growth at home.
Our goal isn't simply to help children feel less sad. It's to help them develop the emotional capacity, confidence, relationships, and sense of hope they'll carry with them as they grow.
Depression Therapy For Teens
Depression in adolescence may involve sadness, but it can also appear as irritability, withdrawal, loss of interest, changes in motivation, academic difficulties, or increased conflict at home.
We help teens make sense of what they're experiencing, develop emotional awareness and coping skills, strengthen connections, and build confidence in their ability to navigate difficult experiences.
When appropriate, we also collaborate with parents and caregivers to support the young person's treatment and growing independence.
Depression Therapy For College Students & Young Adults
College and young adulthood can bring enormous changes in identity, relationships, responsibility, and expectations.
Some young adults feel overwhelmed by the pressure to succeed or uncertain about their place in the world. Others experience loneliness, isolation, disappointment, or a loss of direction.
We help young adults navigate these experiences while developing practical skills, stronger connections, self-understanding, and a growing sense of purpose.
Depression Therapy For Adults
Depression can emerge during periods of loss, burnout, relational difficulty, parenting stress, career changes, health concerns, or transitions that challenge our sense of identity.
It can also develop without one obvious cause.
We work with adults who feel stuck, disconnected, chronically dissatisfied, overwhelmed, or unable to access the parts of life that once felt meaningful.
Together, we focus on understanding what's happening and helping you move toward greater engagement, connection, and hope.
UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSION
& OTHER MOOD DISORDERS
Major Depression & Persistent Depressive Symptoms
Some people experience significant episodes of depression that interfere with daily functioning.
Others live with a more persistent, lower-grade depression that has become so familiar they may struggle to remember what feeling different would be like.
Both deserve thoughtful assessment and appropriate treatment.
Depression, Bipolar Disorder & Changes In Mood
Depressive symptoms can occur in several different mood disorders, including bipolar disorders.
Because periods of depression may sometimes alternate with episodes of unusually elevated or irritable mood, increased energy, reduced need for sleep, or other significant changes in functioning, accurate assessment matters.
Treatment for bipolar disorders may differ from treatment for unipolar depression and often involves coordination with a psychiatric or medical prescriber.
We want to understand the full picture and help clients access care appropriate to their needs.
When Depression Overlaps With Other Concerns
Depression can coexist with anxiety, ADHD, trauma-related concerns, eating disorders, substance use difficulties, grief, and other challenges.
Sometimes what looks like a lack of motivation is influenced by executive functioning difficulties.
Sometimes chronic anxiety leads to exhaustion and withdrawal.
Sometimes depression develops in the aftermath of trauma, loss, or prolonged stress.
We consider these experiences together rather than assuming one explanation accounts for everything.
What Does Progress With Depression Look Like?
Progress isn't always a sudden return to happiness.
Sometimes it's answering a message.
Making plans.
Getting out of bed and opening the curtains.
Eating something nourishing.
Returning to an interest you thought you'd lost.
Allowing someone to know you're having a difficult day.
Having the energy to care about something again.
Making a decision you previously felt too overwhelmed to make.
Recognizing that disappointment doesn't have to become a statement about your entire future.
Or discovering, perhaps unexpectedly, that you laughed and actually enjoyed it.
Over time, progress may involve greater emotional flexibility, stronger relationships, more consistent daily functioning, a renewed sense of purpose, and increased confidence in your ability to handle difficulty.
And sometimes progress is being able to experience sadness without believing it means you've returned to where you started.
We don't want you merely to become better at enduring a life that feels empty. We want to help you build and participate in a life that feels increasingly worth living.
WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT WHEN BEGINNING DEPRESSION THERAPY?
1. We Start by Understanding Your Experience
We'll explore how depression affects your mood, thoughts, relationships, energy, sleep, daily functioning, and sense of hope.
We'll also consider relevant medical, developmental, relational, and environmental factors and discuss whether additional evaluation or coordinated care may be helpful.
2. We Identify What May Be Keeping You Stuck
Together, we'll examine patterns of withdrawal, rumination, shame, avoidance, inactivity, disconnection, and other experiences that may be maintaining your symptoms.
3. We Develop Practical And Meaningful Strategies
Depending on your needs, treatment may involve behavioral activation, cognitive strategies, emotional processing, relational work, acceptance, building daily structure, and reconnecting with values and relationships.
4. We Build Capacity at a Pace That Fits Your Needs
Some days, moving forward may mean taking a meaningful risk.
Other days, it may mean getting appropriate rest, accepting help, or making one small change.
We'll revisit your goals, recognize progress, and adjust our work as your needs change.
You don't have to arrive feeling hopeful.
You don't have to know where you're going.
You can begin exactly where you are
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT
DEPRESSION THERAPY
How Do I Know if I'm Depressed or Just Going Through A Difficult Time?
Sadness, grief, disappointment, and emotional exhaustion can be natural responses to life's challenges. Depression may be worth evaluating when changes in mood, interest, energy, sleep, concentration, motivation, or daily functioning persist or interfere significantly with your life. Therapy can help you understand what you're experiencing without assuming every difficult emotion is a disorder.
Can I Be Depressed Even if I'm Still Functioning?
Yes. Some people continue working, attending school, parenting, maintaining relationships, and appearing successful while privately experiencing significant depression. Being able to meet responsibilities doesn't mean you're not struggling or don't deserve support.
What If I Don't Feel Motivated Enough For Therapy?
Difficulty finding motivation is common with depression. You don't need to arrive with enthusiasm, energy, or a perfectly clear set of goals. We can begin with understanding what's happening and identifying small, realistic steps toward change.
Will Therapy Make Me Focus on Painful Experiences I'd Rather Avoid?
Therapy may involve exploring painful experiences, but we don't believe healing requires overwhelming you or forcing disclosure before you're ready. We'll work collaboratively to understand what needs attention, what support you need, and how to approach difficult material in a thoughtful, clinically appropriate way.
How is Depression Therapy Different From Just Talking to A Friend?
Supportive conversations can be enormously helpful. Therapy can also provide structured assessment, an understanding of patterns maintaining depression, evidence-informed interventions, and opportunities to practice new ways of thinking, relating, and living. We want you to feel understood—and to develop practical capacity for change.
Can Depression Therapy Help if I Also Have Anxiety, ADHD, or Trauma?
Yes. These concerns frequently overlap, and understanding their relationship can be important to effective treatment. Depending on your needs, we may incorporate strategies addressing multiple concerns or coordinate additional services.
Do I Need Medication For Depression?
Not everyone with depression needs medication, and treatment decisions depend on factors such as symptom severity, history, personal preference, and the presence of other conditions. Psychotherapy can be an effective treatment for depression. Medication may also be helpful or indicated for some people. When appropriate, we can encourage collaboration with a qualified medical or psychiatric prescriber.
What if I'm Feeling Hopeless or Having Thoughts About Not Wanting To Live?
You deserve to be able to talk openly about these experiences without shame. We take hopelessness and suicidal thoughts seriously and work to understand your safety, support needs, and appropriate treatment options. If you're in immediate danger or unable to keep yourself safe, call 911 or seek emergency care. In the United States, you can also call or text 988 for crisis support.
Do You Offer Online Depression Therapy?
Three Birds Counseling offers in-person appointments in Greensboro and Raleigh, along with telehealth services for eligible clients throughout North Carolina, depending on clinician availability.
Do You Accept Insurance?
Three Birds Counseling is a private-pay, out-of-network practice. Superbills are available upon request for clients interested in exploring possible out-of-network reimbursement, although reimbursement is not guaranteed.
THERE IS STILL LIFE HERE.
Maybe you're not where you hoped you'd be.
Maybe you've lost something you never imagined losing.
Maybe you're tired of trying, tired of pretending, or tired of feeling like nothing will ever change.
We won't promise that life will become easy.
We won't tell you that everything happens for a reason.
And we won't ask you to be grateful for experiences that have hurt you.
But we do believe there is more to your life than the darkness you're experiencing right now.
There are people you haven't met.
Conversations you haven't had.
Things you haven't learned.
Moments of laughter, connection, beauty, frustration, disappointment, wonder, and delight that haven't happened yet.
Some of them may be small.
Some may surprise you.
And some may become deeply meaningful in ways you cannot yet anticipate.
You don't have to be in love with your life every day to keep choosing to participate in it.
You can begin by making room for the possibility that something different may still be ahead.
You don't have to find all the hope yourself.
We can help you begin.
