Treating Depression Naturally in Conyers, Georgia
When someone comes to us at Anchor Point for help with depression, they’re often not looking for medication right away. They’re looking for a more natural path that aligns with their values, respects their body, and helps them feel empowered in their healing process.
That’s why I begin every therapy journey for depression with a conversation:
“What does depression mean to you?”
“Did something specific happen to trigger it?” A major loss? A relationship shift? A difficult season in life? If so, we may be dealing with situational depression—a normal and temporary emotional response to a life event. In these cases, natural interventions and compassionate support may be all that’s needed to restore balance.
However, when depression is long-term or isn’t tied to any particular event, it may be biological, emotional, or neurophysiological in origin. That’s where our deeper work begins. At Anchor Point, we offer a variety of holistic, research-backed therapies to address depression at its roots.
Below, I explain six natural treatments I use to help people manage depression naturally.
1. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Training the Mind to Think Differently
CBT is a powerful, evidence-based approach that teaches people to identify and challenge unhelpful or distorted thoughts. Depression often distorts reality, making someone feel hopeless, unworthy, or helpless. In CBT, we help clients become aware of these automatic negative thoughts and replace them with more balanced, compassionate, and accurate thinking.
For example:
- “I always mess things up” becomes “I sometimes make mistakes, but I also get things right.”
- “Nothing will ever change” becomes “Change is possible, and I’ve taken the first step.”
This shift in thinking leads to a real shift in how you feel and act.
2. Affirmations and Positive Language: Rewriting the Inner Script
What we say to ourselves matters. The words we use—out loud or silently—shape our inner world. At Anchor Point, we use daily affirmations to help clients rewire the way they relate to themselves. We encourage the use of positive, forward-moving language that avoids negatives like “no,” “don’t,” or “can’t.”
Instead of saying, “I don’t want to be depressed,” we might say, “I am becoming more peaceful each day.”
These subtle shifts retrain the subconscious mind to focus on healing, hope, and self-worth. Over time, affirmations help reinforce a new emotional baseline.
3. Breathwork: Calming the Nervous System
Depression and anxiety often go hand-in-hand with disrupted breathing patterns. Breathwork is a simple but powerful way to bring your body and mind back into alignment. We teach clients how to use techniques like diaphragmatic breathing, box breathing, or paced breathing to regulate the nervous system and ease emotional distress.
Breathwork can:
- Lower cortisol (the stress hormone)
- Improve emotional regulation
- Increase feelings of calm and presence
Best of all, it’s free, portable, and always available!
4. Biofeedback Devices: Training the Body to Relax
Biofeedback uses technology to help you become aware of your body’s stress responses and learn how to shift them. At Anchor Point, we use advanced devices like emWave, Wild Divine, and Alive to measure physiological signals such as heart rate variability, skin conductance, and breathing.
Biofeedback allows individuals to see their stress responses change in real-time through visual games or calming guided meditations. Then they learn how to move the body into a state of coherence, a calm, focused, and resilient state of being.
Over time, biofeedback helps people:
- Manage stress more effectively
- Improve sleep and energy levels
- Increase resilience to triggers that once caused overwhelm
5. Neurofeedback: Teaching the Brain to Heal Itself
Neurofeedback is one of the most transformative tools we use for non-medication treatment of depression. It can begin with a quantitative EEG brain map, which shows how different areas of the brain are functioning. Often, we find underactivity in areas associated with mood, energy, and motivation.
Once we know where the imbalances are, neurofeedback gently trains the brain to shift its patterns. Using sensors and real-time feedback (usually through a game or movie), the brain learns how to re-regulate itself.
Over time, this process improves emotional stability, energy levels, and mental clarity. Many report feeling more balanced, less emotionally reactive, and more like themselves again, without medication.
6. Somatic Therapy: Releasing Emotions Stored in the Body
Trauma and long-term emotional pain are stored not just in the mind but in the body. Somatic therapies help clients tune into physical sensations and gently release stored emotions.
At Anchor Point, we offer two powerful somatic therapies:
- EFT: Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), also known as tapping, is a therapeutic approach that combines elements of cognitive behavioral therapy with gentle tapping on specific acupressure points on the body to help release emotional distress. When used to treat depression, EFT helps individuals identify and process the underlying emotional triggers or limiting beliefs contributing to their low mood. By focusing on specific feelings such as hopelessness, guilt, or worthlessness while tapping on energy meridians, EFT calms the nervous system, reduces emotional intensity, and rewires negative thought patterns. EFT can significantly reduce symptoms of depression, often by helping people feel more emotionally balanced, resilient, and self-accepting.
- Brainspotting: Involves identifying “spots” in your visual field that connect to unresolved emotional material. With the support of a trained therapist, clients access and release deep-seated trauma stored in the body.
These therapies are especially helpful for those who feel “stuck,” emotionally numb, or weighed down by unresolved trauma.
At Anchor Point, we believe healing is not about rushing or forcing—it’s about discovering what works for you. We take a whole-person approach to depression that respects your story, your biology, and your goals. Whether you’re dealing with recent emotional pain or long-term struggles, there is a path forward, and you don’t have to walk it alone.
Written by Dr. Susan Sendelbach
Need Support Managing Depression? Let’s find your anchor point.
Located in Conyers, Georgia, Anchor Point Counseling, Biofeedback, and Neurofeedback Center offers compassionate, expert care for those seeking natural, non-medication approaches to depression.
Call us today at (678) 210-1166 or email doctors@anchorpointga.com to schedule your first session or a free phone consultation.
We’re here to help you find clarity, strength, and hope, naturally.