The despairing pain of depression can be unbearable. It drops to a depth not many can truly understand. You can’t tolerate anyone or anything that holds light and positivity. You pull away from friends and loved ones choosing instead to be alone because no one gets it, no matter how many times they see your suffering. You may appear to others to be the brightest star in the room but inside you feel so very empty and alone. Intellectually, you know what you need to do to “shake it off” but you can never get the ideas that may save you to internalize. Day after day you spend in darkness. You attempt relief through various ways of numbing out, yet the pain remains…
Depression affects millions of individuals worldwide, and its impact is profound, permeating every aspect of your life and those around you. But know this, there is help. You don’t have to continue to suffer. The pain can lighten and the roots of its source can be addressed. Understanding depression, its causes, and the available therapy options can be the foothold you need to climb up and claim your spot atop your challenges.
Depression can be triggered by various factors, including traumatic life events, chronic stress, imbalances in brain chemistry, and underlying medical conditions. Additionally, certain risk factors, such as a family history of depression, substance abuse, or a history of trauma, can increase susceptibility. Depression therapy takes a 360 degree approach to understanding who you are. Together, with a very skilled and experienced therapist from The Therapy Team you will clear through the fog of depression and see the horizon ahead.
Determine the Core: “If you can name it – you can tame it.” coined Dr. Dan Seigal of the Mindsight Institute. The Therapy Team therapists are specialists in helping you get below the surface to explore the real issues so you can learn to take back control in your life.
Healthy Adaptive Strategies: The nature of depression strips away your abilities to fight it off. With depression therapy you will learn skills, practices and techniques to regulate emotions, understand where your debilitating thoughts are coming from and better manage the way you treat yourself and others.
Build Your Strength: How do you come back from this? Therapy will provide the platform where you boost your ability to fight back and rise above. Resilience can be learned and like any muscle it can be strengthened to meet whatever life throws at you.
Reconnect With Your Loved Ones: Depression can pull you away from seeking the support you need from those closest to you. Stigma, repetitive negative thoughts and your desire to seek isolation prevent the positive changes you need. The skilled and experienced depression therapists at the The Therapy Team help you recognise what is standing in your way allowing you to move forward to reconnect and build stronger relationships.
What sets The Therapy Team apart is our commitment to staying at the forefront of the latest advancements in depression therapy. Our team of experienced therapists combines evidence-based practices and cutting-edge techniques based in neuroscience to provide you with the most effective and comprehensive care possible. We understand that your experience with depression is unique, and we’re dedicated to supporting you every step of the way.
Book your free 15 minute consultation with the therapist of your choice. If you are unsure who to book with contact our very friendly support staff and they will be happy to help find the therapist that will be the right fit for you. During the consult call you will share your challenges to make sure that the therapist is what you are looking for. The consult session is also where the therapist begins to plan and strategize the personalized treatment plan just for you.
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To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
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Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to