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A short-term, evidence-based therapy that helps individuals with depression and anxiety increase engagement in meaningful activities to improve mood and reduce avoidance.
When you’re depressed, the first things to disappear are often the very things that make life feel fulfilling—hobbies, time with friends, exercise, simple pleasures. The result? You feel even more disconnected, stuck, and low. Behavioral Activation (BA) is a short-term, evidence-based therapy that helps reverse this downward spiral by gently reintroducing rewarding activity into your life.
It’s a structured approach designed to help people with depression and anxiety gradually rebuild motivation and mood through action. Treatment typically lasts between 8 to 24 sessions and has been proven effective in individual and group formats, across diverse cultural backgrounds.
Whether you’re struggling with major depressive disorder, symptoms tied to PTSD or OCD, or simply feeling stuck, Behavioral Activation can help you break free of inertia and move toward the life you want.
Depression often tells us to shut down—to stay home, sleep more, avoid people, and withdraw from the world. This makes sense in the moment: you may feel too tired, too discouraged, or too anxious to do anything else. But ironically, these very behaviors keep depression going.
Behavioral Activation works by disrupting this cycle. It focuses less on why you feel bad and more on what you can do today to feel a little better tomorrow. It’s not about pretending everything is fine. It’s about making small, intentional choices that lead to real emotional change over time.
With your therapist, you’ll identify what matters most to you—whether it’s being more present for loved ones, getting back into creative activities, rebuilding your health, or reconnecting with your community. You’ll then develop a weekly plan of achievable, personally meaningful activities that align with those values.
For example:
Your therapist will help you choose and schedule activities that match your current energy level, monitor how they affect your mood, and troubleshoot barriers like avoidance, fatigue, or self-doubt. You’ll also learn how to respond differently to moments of sadness or anxiety—not by withdrawing, but by gently re-engaging.
Over time, these actions—no matter how small—can bring back a sense of control, purpose, and enjoyment.
You don’t have to feel “motivated” to begin. You just have to be willing to take the first step—and we’ll help with the rest. At the Behavioral Wellness Clinic, we offer behavioral activation as part of our personalized approach to treating depression and related conditions. If you’re tired of feeling stuck and ready to reconnect with the things that matter, we’re here to help.
Let’s take that first step—together.