Madison Watanabe

About

I work with adults who used to feel like the liveliest person in any room and now barely recognize that description of themselves. If mornings have started feeling longer than they used to and ordinary colors look a little washed out, you are the reader I had in mind. My whole focus is depression, especially the slow kind that never has a single dramatic cause to point at. Plenty of the people I sit with have lost their spark with no obvious reason, which fools them into treating a real condition as a character flaw. We begin by naming what has really changed for you, then work outward from that, one clear observation at a time. I spent a stretch of years running programs from behind a desk before coming back to this chair, and that return reminded me exactly why I chose the work. My sessions move at a human pace, with no pressure to walk in holding a tidy summary of your week. You can arrive unsure of what to even say, and we will build the rest together. Whenever you feel ready, send a note and tell me what has been weighing on you.