You're exhausted, but you can't rest. You've withdrawn from everything, but your mind won't stop running. Depression and anxiety together have a specific texture, and it's one of the most common experiences people bring to therapy.

If you've been looking for a depression therapist in Vancouver, this is what to expect: what the first session is like, how the work unfolds, and what's different about therapy that actually fits.

Depression doesn't only affect how you feel. It changes how you show up with the people around you. The withdrawal, the silence, the sense of being unreachable even when you're in the same room.

Depression doesn't always look like sadness. Sometimes depression feels like nothing at all: a flatness where feeling used to be, a distance from your own life that's hard to name and harder to explain.

You're keeping up. Work is getting done. You're showing up. But inside, there's a flatness that doesn't shift. This is what high-functioning depression actually looks like.

You might not call it depression. You might call it exhaustion that sleep doesn't fix, or going through the motions, or not really caring about anything lately. This is for the people who aren't sure what's happening, but know something is.