Depression Counseling in South Salt Lake, UT.

At Highland Ridge Hospital, we provide treatment to children, adults, and seniors struggling with depression using empirically-validated, scientifically-supported treatment options. Here treatment for depression is not a one-size-fits-all approach, instead we individualize our plans of care to meet all the needs of each patient who comes to us. The staff at Highland Ridge Hospital treats each of our residents as family, ensuring that you’ll always have a shoulder to lean on when you need it most. Our multidisciplinary treatment team will work together and alongside you to make sure that you’re meeting your treatment goals as you progress through our program.

Whether you are feeling sad more often than not or totally overwhelmed most of the time, depression is real and often more than just a chemical imbalance. We can work together to identify some of the roots of depression so you don't have to feel trapped by overwhelming sadness or hopelessness. We can learn to recognize triggers and situations that bring on more suffering and work to minimize their effect on your life. I am trained and work to understand the multiple facets of big, intense emotions so you will soon start to know how to live life without being debilitated by depression.

Grey Matters International, Inc. and the work of Kevin J. Fleming, Ph.D. handles depression and other emotional disorders in a very unique way. Most of therapy or counseling processes utilize validation, unconditional positive regard, and reframing as common techniques to get someone to heal from their depression. Though this can be helpful, it rarely fixes the core problem behind it and for tough cases we then refer them usually to a psychiatrist for medication which can have tons of side effects. Instead, why not try a natural and arguably more effective way to not just change your mind, but change the brain--where the depression is rooted. Contact us at kevin@kevinflemingphd.com.

Equine therapy is an alternative therapy where therapists use horses to help people who are dealing with depression or other mental health problems. In a usual equine therapy session, patients are asked to care for a horse – feed them, groom them and walk them. In an equine assisted psychotherapy setting, clients will work to gain skills while working with horses. These skills will translate into every day life situations to help with problem solving skills.

Depression results from a combination of factors, such as a history of abusive relationships, or a financial or personal loss, and/or a genetic influence. Treating depression effectively comes from an accurate assessment of the reasons, which determines how to help the person heal. A person may need to be taken through a grief or mourning process; or they may need to challenge negative concepts about themselves that result from abusive or shaming relationships; or they may need to be referred to a psychiatrist for a medication evaluation. We are familiar with the many faces of depression, and can guide a person through the healing process accurately.

I specialize in treating children and adults for articulation, fluency, language disorders, pragmatic/social language disorders, dyslexia, etc. I am currently offering in-person sessions for children (as our clinic is geared towards school-age clients) and tele-therapy for both children and adults. I offer specialized one-on-one speech and language therapy tailored to the individual's needs. If you are looking for a speech and language evaluation, we also offer those as well.