I have been benefiting from DBT at Gearing Up for about a year and a half. June is teaching me many new skills to help me regulate my emotions. These include mindfulness and meditation as well as reframing my thoughts and gratitude. I am making progress with my anxiety and depression. I believe it can help anyone seeking to make progress in their mental health journey.
Depression Therapy in Dallas
Depression Goes Deeper Than Just Sadness
You deserve a life that is more than simply “getting through it.” GearingUP offers evidence-based, research proven Depression Therapy that provide results for years to come.
Depression affects 21 million U.S. adults (or about 8.4% of the population) and is a leading cause of disability worldwide (NIMH, 2023).
Unfortunately, many people spend years cycling through temporary fixes or online fads without addressing the root causes of their depression. At GearingUP Counseling Centers, we know depression isn’t just a “bad mood” — it’s a whole-body condition that can manifest as:
- Persistent sadness, guilt, emptiness, or hopelessness (“Nothing will ever get better”)
- Loss of interest in hobbies, relationships, or work
- Lack of self-care routines such as changes in appetite or hygiene
- Chronic fatigue, sleep issues, or insomnia
- Irritability, angry outbursts, or emotional numbness
- Self-critical thoughts (“I’m worthless”)
- Trouble thinking, making decisions, or concentrating or remembering information
- Unexplained physical aches and pains such as back pain or headaches
The good news? Depression responds very well to therapy, and lasting change and improvement is possible.
GearingUP's Dallas-Based Therapies for Depression
GearingUP’s clinical team are trained or certified in a number of different powerful therapies, and each form of therapy is intended for specific needs and recommended for certain issues. Here are brief descriptions of the many therapies GearingUP offers for Depression in the Dallas area:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) To Break Negative Thought Cycles
How it works: CBT helps clients identify and reframe self-defeating thoughts and beliefs (e.g., “I’m a failure”).
Why it’s effective: CBT addresses the root causes of negative thinking cycles and belief systems that can lead us into depression and maintain depression over the long term. Research finds that 50-75% of patients see significant improvement within 15-20 sessions in their depression symptoms with CBT (APA, 2022).
GearingUP’s edge: GearingUP’s clinicians have been trained by some of the foremost experts in CBT in the world including Dr. Judith Beck, the daughter of Dr. Aaron Beck who originally developed CBT. We have studied the most effective methods of employing CBT to address depression as developed by world experts.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) To Regain Emotional Regulation
How it works: DBT uses a set curriculum of research proven skills to help clients emotionally regulate and address their negative thoughts and emotions proactively.
Why it’s effective: DBT’s proven skills have been show to effectively address emotional dysregulation by interrupting behavioral patterns and teaching clients how to manage their own emotional regulation for years to come.
GearingUP’s edge: GearingUP is one of the most extensively trained DBT clinics in the country having completed training with Dr. Marsha Linehan’s (the founder of DBT) Behavioral Tech institute as well as many other world experts such as Dr. Lane Pederson, Dr. Melanie Harned, and Dr. Francheska Perepletchikova.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for Developing Mental Flexibility
How it works: ACT teaches clients skills for clarifying what is truly important to them, what they can be flexible with, and how to achieve what’s necessary for their goals.
Why it’s effective: By reducing certain behaviors and issues like cognitive fusion (over-identifying with negative thoughts), clients are able to move past the thoughts, emotions, and beliefs holding them back from pursuing committed, value-driven actions towards their goals.
GearingUP’s edge: GearingUP helps clients maximize their ACT therapy through increased focus on Mindfulness and acceptance skills to build resilience and improve emotional well-being for years to come.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) For Resolving Trauma That May Cause Depression
How it works: While EMDR is often used to trauma treatment, it can be helpful with addressing depression that may be influenced or caused by unresolved trauma.
Why it’s effective: EMDR helps clients processed unresolved traumatic memories, reduce emotional intensity, and restructure their negative beliefs and thoughts.
GearingUP’s edge: EMDR is often considered a short term therapy, but it can be a powerful tool in a treatment plan. GearingUP offers a wide suite of therapies in addition to EMDR, and our expert clinicians understand how to use EMDR in the course of treatment to provide powerful results in your therapy journey.
Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) To Address Emotional Roots of Depression
How it works: EFT teaches clients how to recognize, tolerate, and work through painful emotions. Unaddressed maladaptive emotions (such as shame, abandonment, etc.) could be at the heart of depression.
Why it’s effective: EFT equips clients with tools to understand their emotions, transform their negativity into positive experiences, and strengthen attachment and emotional experiences with those around them.
GearingUP’s edge: GearingUP’s clinical team understands the deep role emotions can play in our lives, and many members of our clinical staff have trained directly with Dr. Sue Johnson, one of the founders of EFT. We understand when clients would experience the best results with EFT or other emotion focused therapies like DBT and when to use EFT for the best results.
Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) For Breaking Cycles of Depression
How it works: MBCT teaches clients how to break cycles of thinking and rumination that often lead to depression or relapse back into depression without getting caught in these thinking cycles.
Why it’s effective: By cultivating mindfulness skills and decentralizing techniques, clients are able to observe their thoughts and emotions as temporary phenomena that arise and pass without dwelling on the past or future.
GearingUP’s edge: GearingUP’s clinical team has completed extensive training with multiple world experts in Mindfulness and Cognitive Therapy. We offer many different forms of Mindfulness based therapies and know what techniques are often most effective in the course of MBCT therapy.
Mindfulness Training and Therapy Relieves Depression with Non-Judgmental Awareness
How it works: Mindfulness teaches clients how to interact with their thoughts, emotions, bodies, and more to increase their present moment awareness and break the cycles of thinking and beliefs that can lead to depression.
Why it’s effective: By promoting accurate clear-sightedness, non-judgmental investigation, and full awareness, clients are able to create more mental and emotional space and cultivate more positive experiences within themselves and with others.
GearingUP’s edge: Mindfulness is a foundational skill for all of GearingUP’s therapy offerings, and our clinical staff have completed in-depth trainings with many world experts in Mindfulness to learn how to best understand and use mindfulness to find relief and create the life they envision for themselves.
Click here to learn more about Mindfulness Training and Therapy at GearingUP
Specialized Dallas-Based Depression Care for All Ages
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Adults & Individual Therapy
Adults with depression often struggle with just getting started in therapy since they may view themselves as well functioning or even “high-functioning.” They may have demanding jobs, important responsibilities, and more, but they experience symptoms of depression all the same (emptiness, hopelessness, oversleeping or insomnia, and more). We are here to help no matter your circumstances.
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Teens & College Students
Teens, college students, and young adults may experience new challenges or age specific issues in the modern age that can lead to depression such as academic stress, social media comparisons, identity struggles, early career issues, and generally “figuring things out.” It can feel overwhelming, but our clinical team is ready to help you work through both these modern challenges and more typical depression using the best tools based on science.
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Children and Pre-Teens
Many people believe that children cannot experience depression, but nothing could be further from the truth. Depression in children can manifest in many different ways including irritability, trouble at school, acting out, changes in sleep or appetite, selective mutism, and other issues. GearingUP’s child therapy experts are more than ready to work with you and your child to work through their depression and return to a happier childhood.
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Families and Parents
Depression can impact the entire family and disrupt the entire household. Parents and families may need additional support as well while one member of the family is in therapy for depression. GearingUP’s wide range of therapies and tools can help bolster family relationships and keep family members connected while working through difficult issues.
What To Expect in GearingUP's Depression Therapy
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First Session
After a quick sign up, your first appointment will be with one of GearingUP’s senior clinicians who can help assess your needs and make initial recommendations for your goals.
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Diagnostics and Assessment
We often recommend some initial diagnostic sessions and assessments to make more accurate recommendations based on your needs. Much like blood work and x-rays for medical treatment, therapists use testing to assist you more accurately and efficiently.
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Customized Treatment Plan
Based on our initial assessments, we will present you with a proposed treatment plan based on your goals and our recommendations for effective treatment. We can also answer your questions, explain the therapies we offer, and finalize your treatment plan.
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Beginning Treatment & Progress Reports
As your treatment plan makes progress, our clinical team will make regular diagnostic check ins with testing and assessments to confirm that you are making substantive progress towards your goals.
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Make Changes Anytime
If you want to make changes at any point, please reach out to our office or speak with your therapist. Maybe you would prefer a different approach, a different therapist, or simply want to try something else. Make changes at anytime at no extra cost.
GearingUP's Depression Therapy vs Other Clinicians
| GearingUP | Other online depression therapists | Other in-person depression therapists | |
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| More Than "Supportive Therapy" Many therapists only offer basic supportive or "solutions focused" therapies that provide shallow, surface level answers to deeper issues. GearingUP's evidence-based therapies help clients fundamentally change the internal systems that lead to depression so they not only resolve their current depression but also know waht to do when it returns in the future. | Yes | No | No |
| Customized Treatment Plans Many depression therapists only offer a "one size fits all" therapy based on their limited training and specialization. GearingUP offers a wide range of therapies and solutions for depression that address depression from many different angles - emotion focused, skills based systems, trauma informed, and more. | Yes | No | No |
| Gold Standard Therapies Many therapists only offer therapies they learned in graduate school or generalized talk therapy. GearingUP's clinical team have completed advanced trainings and often certifications in over a dozen different therapy systems to offer the best science-based therapies for your treatment. | Yes | No | No |
| Treatment Team Approach Many therapists work by themselves and only have limited offerings or specialties requiring them to refer out regularly. GearingUP's clinical team approach allows us to work with all ages and dozens of diagnoses with effective treatment. We are often able to effectively treat an entire family without any outgoing referrals so you have less to worry about with your treatment. | Yes | No | No |
| Tracking Progress Most therapists do not use diagnostics, assessments, or testing of any kind in their clinical treatment. GearingUP not only uses diagnostics to help us more accurately and effectively work with you, but we also conduct regular "progress reports" to objectively show that we are making progress towards your clinical goals. | Yes | No | No |
| Treating Different Types of Depression Depression can manifest in dozens of different ways, but many therapists only understand the most basic criteria for identifying and treating depression. GearingUP's clinical programs were developed with experts in mood disorders like depression, and our clinical staff are able to identify and accurately treat depression in whatever form it may take. Expertise is important when it comes to your family's health. | Yes | No | No |
Frequently Asked Questions
The length and effectiveness of therapy varies depending on your personal goals and challenges. Some clients see improvements in just a few sessions, while others may benefit from longer-term support. Different clients have different goals. On average, many clients report feeling meaningful progress within 8-12 sessions.
Yes, we offer many therapies that have been shown to be very effective with treatment-resistant depression in clinical studies including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and much more. We also coordinate with external resources like psychiatrists and other professionals to create an effective treatment plan for whatever you may be experiencing.
Absolutely! GearingUP offers many therapies through telehealth or virtual online sessions from your home. Our clinical experts are ready to help you address your depression or other challenges with convenient, accessible therapy that works for you.
Many studies suggest that genetics can contribute to someone developing depression, but it is important to note that you can experience depression without any genetic predisposition. Environment, upbringing, and external factors also heavily contribute to someone developing depression as well. This is why effective depression treatment requires customized treatment plans that are tailored to your specific circumstances.
You can get started with your therapy for depression in minutes! Contact our office for a quick enrollment process – all we need is your basic demographic and contact information, insurance details (if using insurance), and payment information. Our staff will schedule your first appointment with one of our senior therapists to discuss your needs and how GearingUP can help you. We often have same day or next day appointments available for new clients, but most new clients are seen in less than one week after contacting our office.
Locations GearingUP Treats Issues Related To Depression
We’re happy to offer treatment for issues related to Depression at the following locations.
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Dallas (Lakewood)
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Frisco West
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McKinney
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North Richland Hills
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Plano (Mapleshade)
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Plano (Stonebriar)
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Prosper
Depression therapy near you
Anxiety and depression therapy at our McKinney, Frisco and Plano offices.
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Anxiety & Depression Therapy in Frisco
Therapy for anxiety, panic and depression in Frisco for children, teens and adults.
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Anxiety & Depression Therapy in McKinney
Therapy for anxiety, panic and depression at our McKinney office, using CBT, DBT and ACT skills.
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Anxiety & Depression Therapy in Plano
Anxiety and depression therapy in Plano using CBT, DBT and mindfulness-based approaches.
Depression therapy at our Dallas (Lakewood) office
In Dallas, our office on Gaston Avenue in Lakewood serves East Dallas, Lake Highlands and the White Rock Lake area. Our Lakewood clinicians list depression and other mood disorders among their areas of experience and see teens and adults, in person or online.
GearingUP Dallas (Lakewood) Office
- 6301 Gaston Ave suite 1119, Dallas, TX 75214, USA
- (469) 916-1807
- Monday to Thursday: 9am to 9pm Friday: 9am to 6pm
Clients come to this office from
Lakewood, East Dallas, Lake Highlands, White Rock Lake, M Streets, Casa Linda
Clinicians at this office
- Yazmin Rodriguez, LPC Associate, Clinical Therapist
- Omari Smith, LPC-S, Clinical Supervisor
- Antonette Anuwe, LPA, Clinical Supervisor
Depression Therapy Reviews
Gearing up has been nothing but amazing to me and my family for a long time now. I’ve personally worked with Antonette for personal sessions along with skills classes for over a year now. My depression and anxiety are minimal and I process daily stress better than I ever expected to. I would highly recommend her to anyone I can!
GearingUP has greatly improved my personal life, helped me deal with anxiety and depression, and helped my marital issues. I can't recommend them enough!
I will admit In was nervous when I decided to seek treatment for PTSD and depression, but I have felt very comfortable here. I have learned a trick or two on how to handle emotional flare ups and they have helped.
My therapist easily gained my trust and I always felt comfortable sharing my thoughts and feelings. I was treated with respect and empathy. Helped me through some difficult struggles with depression.
I have had a really great experience with Gearing Up. The testing was insightful and helped me understand where I was starting. I have been appreciating learning new skills to reduce my symptoms of anxiety, anger, and depression, and it is working so well so far. My therapist understands the road I am on and is helping me learn for long term relief and so I can do and feel better. I'm glad I found Gearing Up when I did, in a season of big changes and high stress. I feel better prepared now for what happens around me, and it's easier to find comfort and joy.