ADOLESCENTS & TEENS | YOUNG ADULTS | ADULTS
Therapy for Depression & Low Mood
We provide compassionate therapy to help individuals, couples, and families navigate depression and mood challenges, ease symptoms, and rediscover a sense of balance and hope. Serving Redondo Beach, the South Bay, and clients online across California, our therapists integrate EMDR, somatic practices, mindfulness, and talk therapy to foster lasting healing and emotional well-being.
Support to ease the heaviness of depression and mood struggles.
TOGETHER, WE CAN MAKE THE WEIGHT FEEL LIGHTER.
Together, we’ll work toward balance, stability, and brighter days ahead.
Living with depression or mood struggles can feel like carrying a weight that never lifts. It may show up as low mood, constant fatigue, loss of motivation, difficulty concentrating, or changes in sleep and appetite. For some, it also brings irritability, disconnection from loved ones, or a lingering sense of emptiness. These experiences can make daily life feel overwhelming—but with the right support, relief and healing are possible.
With a steady, collaborative pace, therapy focuses on easing symptoms while building tools for balance and stability. Sessions can include grounding skills, nervous-system regulation, mindfulness practices, or EMDR for depression-related memories. Over time, these approaches can help lighten the weight of depression, increase clarity, and open space for renewed energy, connection, and hope in daily life.
HELP WITH HOPELESSNESS, FATIGUE, LOSS OF MOTIVATION
Depression Therapy That Meets You Where You Are
How we help. Care at Catherine Alvarado, LMFT & Associates is supportive, collaborative, and paced to meet each person’s needs. Our therapists draw on holistic approaches—integrating EMDR therapy, mindfulness, and somatic practices—to help clients navigate depression and mood challenges. These methods create space to ease symptoms, restore balance, and gently rebuild motivation, connection, and hope.
Accessible, steady support. Therapy is available in person in Redondo Beach and online across California, with flexible options for individuals, couples, and families. Our focus is on steady relief in the present, while also creating the foundation for lasting well-being in the future.
Depression can show up in many ways, including:
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Persistent sadness, emptiness, or hopelessness that lasts most of the day.
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A chronic low mood that lingers for years, often with fatigue or low self-esteem.
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Mood changes and loss of energy that follow seasonal shifts, often in fall and winter.
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Depression or mood struggles following pregnancy or childbirth.
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Individual Therapy
Through individual therapy, adults and teens gain tools to manage anxiety, heal from trauma, and build resilience.
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Couples Therapy
Couples therapy offers a supportive space to deepen understanding, work through struggles, and strengthen emotional connection.
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Family Therapy
At Catherine Alvarado, LMFT & Associates, family therapy in Redondo Beach helps families create balance, build trust, and nurture resilience together.
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Standard EMDR Therapy
Standard EMDR therapy offers a 50-minute session for ongoing treatment or as adjunct support to existing therapy.
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Intensive EMDR Therapy
A 2-hour EMDR therapy session designed to provide more time for reprocessing, available for ongoing treatment or adjunct support.
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Adjunct EMDR Therapy
Try EMDR therapy in either standard 50-minute or intensive 2-hour formats, available as adjunct support when needed.
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EMDR Consultation for Clinicians
EMDR consultation for clinicians provides guidance, support, and resources to strengthen skills and confidence in EMDR practice.
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Adolescent & Teen Therapy
Therapy for adolescents and teens provides support for managing stress, building confidence, and navigating school, family, and relationships.
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Young Adult Therapy
Young adult therapy provides a safe space to explore identity, build confidence, and navigate relationships, career stress, and life changes.
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Adult Therapy
Adult therapy offers support for managing anxiety, grief, relationship stress, and life transitions with greater clarity and resilience.
Get matched to the right therapist for you.
You will get the most out of therapy if you’re working with the therapist who is the right fit for you, and we’re committed to helping you find that person.
Reach out to share more about your needs and goals, and we’ll match you with the therapist who has the background, training, & approach that will be best suited for you.
Catherine alvarado, lmft & associates
Therapy in Redondo Beach for Depression
Our team offers depression therapy in Redondo Beach and the South Bay, supporting clients from nearby communities like Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, Torrance, Palos Verdes, and El Segundo. Using a blend of talk therapy, EMDR, mindfulness, and holistic mind–body approaches, we help ease symptoms, build coping tools, and support lasting change. Sessions are available online across California or in person at our Redondo Beach office.
Healing from depression takes time, and steady support can make all the difference. At Catherine Alvarado, LMFT & Associates, therapy is shaped to meet each person’s unique needs. Many clients benefit from EMDR therapy to shift painful beliefs, mindfulness to quiet the mind, or somatic practices to release the weight of stress held in the body. Whether facing persistent sadness, fatigue, or feelings of disconnection, our South Bay therapists provide a supportive space to find relief, restore balance, and begin moving toward a lighter way of living.
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