Depression Therapy | Somatic Psychotherapy for Depression in New York

Reconnecting with your vitality

One Step at a Time

Depression can feel like living under a heavy fog, numbing your energy, blunting your emotions, and disconnecting you from yourself and the world around you. After years, sometimes decades, of living under the weight of a heavy mask, depression is the body’s way of slowing us down, turning us inward, and inviting us to grieve.

Depression is not a flaw—it’s a signal

While traditional talk therapy can offer valuable insights, many people find that true healing from depression also requires working with the body, where sadness, hopelessness, and grief are often silently held.

At Somatic Psychotherapy, we offer body-centered depression therapy that helps you gently reconnect with your emotions, your body, and your capacity for aliveness.
You are not broken.

Your body is not the enemy.
Depression is a call inward, and together, we can listen.

You feel numb, heavy, or emotionally flat—even during things that used to or "should" bring joy

Signs You Might Be Living With Depression

You isolate from people, even when you crave connection

You wake up already exhausted, unmotivated, or disconnected from your day

You feel like you’re watching your life from the outside

You struggle to feel anything—sadness, joy, even grief

You’ve lost touch with your sense of meaning or direction

Your body feels slowed down, shut down, or drained

You long to feel more alive—but don’t know how to start

Reconnect with your felt experience and emotional life

Understand the body’s patterns of shutdown, freeze, and withdrawal

Gently release stored grief, sadness, and emotional numbness

Build a greater sense of presence, vitality, and self-trust

Develop embodied resilience to meet life’s challenges

Reclaim connection—to yourself, to others, and to your sense of meaning

How Somatic Psychotherapy Helps with Depression

We don’t just focus on “changing your thoughts.”
We help you befriend your experience—and slowly, tenderly, reconnect with the life inside you.

What to Expect in

Depression Therapy

Our work together will involve:

How is somatic therapy different from traditional depression treatment?

Somatic psychotherapy addresses the body’s experience of depression—numbness, shutdown, heaviness—not just cognitive patterns. By working with the nervous system, we often access deeper levels of healing than talk therapy alone can reach.

What if I feel too numb to do therapy?

How long does it take to start feeling better?

Frequently asked questions

Healing from depression is not about "fixing" yourself—it's about restoring the natural flow of your emotional life and allowing your full self to come back into connection.

Sessions move at your pace.
There is no rush.

Only an invitation—to meet yourself with compassion, and to welcome yourself home.

Slowing down and listening to the subtle cues of your body

Exploring how depression may have served as a wise survival strategy

Meeting shutdown, grief, or numbness with warmth and curiosity—not judgment

Building new pathways for connection, regulation, and vitality

There Is Life Beyond

the Fog

If you're ready to move from disconnection toward a deeper sense of presence, aliveness, and hope, we are here to support you.