
Depression Therapy: Depression Support That Meets You Where You Are
Depression therapy in Brockville and virtually across Ontario, without pressure to feel better faster than you’re ready to.
Depression Therapy in Brockville, ON
Depression can change how you experience yourself, your relationships, and the world around you. Many people describe feeling numb, exhausted, or disconnected, even when life looks okay from the outside. It can be isolating and confusing.
We understand depression as a human response, not a personal failure. It often makes sense once the whole story is on the table, including what you’ve lost, what you’ve been carrying, and what you’ve had to go without. We start there, with you, as you are.
How We Work
Our clinicians draw on relational, psychodynamic, emotion focused, interpersonal, and CBT approaches, looking at both your inner world and the relationships around you.
Reconnecting
Over time, therapy can be a place to reconnect with the people, values, and parts of yourself that feel far away right now.
What Depression Can Look Like
Depression doesn’t always look like sadness. Some common experiences include:
- Losing interest in things you used to enjoy
- Feeling flat, numb, or heavy
- Changes in appetite
- Trouble concentrating or making decisions
- Harsh self judgment or guilt
- Sleeping much more or much less than usual
We also work with teens. Read more about teen therapy.
What We Work With
Depression Therapy FAQs
Q. Can depression be treated without medication?
Many people find therapy helpful on its own, and some find a combination of therapy and medication works best. Medication decisions are made with your doctor, and we’re happy to work alongside your healthcare team.
Q. How soon will I feel better?
There’s no set timeline. Many people say that simply having a place to put things down makes a difference early on. From there, the work goes at your pace.
Q. Will I always feel this way?
Depression can make the future feel fixed. It’s one of the hardest things about it. We can’t promise how things will unfold, but you don’t have to sit with it alone.
Meet the Clinicians
Each of these clinicians works with this area. If you’re not sure who to choose, we’re happy to help you find a good match.

Meredith Armstrong, MSW, RSW
Owner, Social Worker, Psychotherapist
Meredith Armstrong is a Registered Social Worker and the owner of St. Lawrence Psychotherapy and Wellness. She has been doing this work since 2001, and it has never once felt like just a job to her.

Jim Page, MS, RSW
Social Worker, Psychotherapist
Jim is a Registered Social Worker with a Master of Science in Human Services from Capella University, MN. He has more than 20 years of experience providing individual, couple and family therapy in private practice as well as community agency and hospital outpatient settings.

Genevieve Fincher, MSW, RSW
Social Worker
Genevieve Fincher is a classically trained clinical social worker who graduated from the University of South Carolina and has over 20 years of experience working in adult and children’s mental health.

Charlotte (Charlie) MacDonald, RP (Qualifying)
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
Charlotte, also known as Charlie, is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) who recently graduated from Yorkville University and has joined the St. Lawrence Psychotherapy and Wellness Team.

Lia Forma, MSW, RSW
Social Worker, Psychotherapist
Lia is a Social Worker with over 15 years of experience across community and residential settings. She has walked alongside people through mental health struggles, addiction, trauma, intimate partner violence, and women’s health, and she brings that same steady presence to the men who come to her too. She’s especially attuned to the particular pressures and expectations that can shape how men cope, communicate, and carry what they’re going through, often quietly, and often for a long time before they ask for help.

Mandy LeBlanc, MSW, RSW
Social Worker
Mandy is a Registered Social Worker with more than 22 years of experience in the mental health and addictions field, working across both community and institutional settings. Since beginning her Social Work education in 2002, she has completed her Master of Social Work degree along with a variety of additional courses and professional certifications to further support her clinical practice.

Mackenzie Howard, RP (Qualifying)
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
Mackenzie works with adolescents and adults who are exhausted from always being the strong one, who overthink conversations, worry about disappointing people, and struggle to put themselves first without guilt. She helps people move out of people-pleasing, perfectionism, anxiety, and self-doubt, and toward healthier boundaries, more trust in their own judgment, and more peace day to day.

Karen Gillis, MSW, MA, RSW
Social Worker
Karen works with teens, students, young adults, and professionals navigating perfectionism, OCD, ADHD, anxiety, and burnout. Many of the people she sees are capable and driven, and used to holding things together even when they’re overwhelmed, overthinking everything, or exhausted from trying to keep up.
Other Areas of Support
Most people come in with more than one thing on their mind.

Anxiety
Anxiety usually learned its job somewhere. Therapy is a place to understand where, and what it has been trying to protect.

Grief and Loss
Space for loss of every kind, including the ones other people don’t always see.

Life Transitions
Support through change, whether it was chosen, sudden, or still unfolding.
