Anxiety and Depression
Find your way back to yourself.
“This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival.”
– Rumi
Anxiety and depression can pull us away from who we are – one through racing thoughts and restlessness, the other through heaviness and disconnection.
Maybe you’ve been feeling on edge, overthinking every decision, or like your mind never stops. Or perhaps you’ve been moving through your days with a quiet numbness, doing everything expected but feeling like something inside you has gone dim. Sometimes the two coexist – exhaustion and overdrive, fear and emptiness – leaving you caught in a loop that’s hard to explain to others.
You may feel distant from yourself or unsure of what you need. Even the most minor things can feel effortful. It can be hard to reach out or know where to begin.
These experiences can look different for each person, but they often share a common thread – a longing to feel more connected to life again.
Depression: the weight of an ungrieved loss.
Depression often carries the weight of something unacknowledged – an unnamed grief. It might be a loss of aspiration, hope, belonging, or a quiet mourning for the life you thought you’d be living.
It can feel paralyzing, isolating, and heavy, like moving through fog. Many people describe it as a sense of being suspended between who they were and who they want to become.
In our work together, we’ll begin to explore what feels lost or unmet. Through awareness and compassion, you’ll learn to recognize the emotional patterns that hold you in place and reconnect with parts of you that long for care and renewal.
Anxiety: the messenger at the door
“I’ve finally learned to greet anxiety with gratitude, because it is not my enemy but my teacher.”
–Ashley Melillo
Anxiety often shows up as a body on alert, like a signal that something within is asking for attention.
Rather than seeing it as something to eliminate, we can begin to view it as a messenger, carrying information about what needs care or change.
Using mindfulness and Internal Family Systems (IFS), we listen to the parts of you that carry worry or fear, giving each one time and voice. When these parts feel acknowledged, your system can begin to regulate more easily, and a greater sense of ease can emerge.
Therapy here supports the whole you.
My approach is trauma-informed and integrative, drawing from IFS, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), and somatic practices to support the whole of who you are.
I see therapy as a process of soul-making – a practice of deepening your relationship to the emotions, images, and inner experiences that give your life meaning.
Together, we make space for complexity, imagination, and the quieter intelligence that comes from attending to what’s already within.
It’s time to find your way back.
“Like the sun, the Self can be temporarily obscured, but it never disappears.”
– Richard Schwartz
Here’s my invitation.
If you’re feeling weighed down by depression or unsettled by anxiety, this is a space to bring curiosity to your experience and let it unfold in its own way.
I offer a free 20-minute consultation to explore how we might work together.
Schedule a consult or email cathyltrenary@gmail.com to begin.