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Alternative Depression Therapy

Benjamin Schwarcz MFT - Psychotherapist

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Welcome to the Alternative Depression Therapy website!
Your resource for information on alternative and holistic treatments for depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety and stress.

Energy Psychology Treatments integrated with Meditation, Yoga, Mindfulness, natural health, and Transpersonal Psychotherapy, offer a deep and life-changing path for healing the pain of depression, and achieving new levels of happiness, vitality and peace of mind.

Do you have any of the following symptoms?

  • Fatigue or insomnia?
  • Feelings of hopelessness, worthlessness, or despair?
  • Suicidal thoughts, or thoughts of death?
  • Over-eating or loss of appetite?
  • Frequent crying spells?
  • Fear, anxiety, social withdrawal or isolation?
  • Negative, pessimistic thinking?
  • Feeling that life is meaningless?

    These are some common features of depression. If you want to find a way beyond this suffering, please read on...


    The Alternative Depression Therapy website offers:

    • Instructions and tips for using EFT/Meridian Tapping - a powerful Energy Psychology technique that you can start using right away.

    • Information about alternative therapies.

    • New ways of thinking about healing and personal transformation.

    • Self-Help Tools and information to assist with your personal growth and recovery.

    • Reference guides to products and alternative technologies for wellness.

    • Free professional answers to your personal questions in
      the Ask-the-Therapist Forum

    • An introduction to the Santa Rosa Psychotherapy, Meditation and Energy Coaching practice of Benjamin Schwarcz, MA, MFT.

    • Guided Meditation CD's for deep relaxation, expanded self-awareness, and relief from depression and anxiety.

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    Client Testimonials

    "I went to your website and found your “Guided Meditation for Depression”. The 15 minute one. I laid down... just exhausted from all the inner pain and the “trying” to make is stop... and "trying to fix it"... and I listened to your guided meditation for 15 minutes. The inner pain went away. I was kind of stunned! (I meditate daily)…so I felt as if some kind of “inner demon” was tormenting me or something, and it was simply gone and I could breathe and felt I came back to myself. I felt like my self for the first time in days. The pain wasn’t just “shouting at me” nor was it simply “lurking in the background”... lurking to come back...it was gone.


    "I experienced more positive change in my first session with Ben, then I had in years of weekly psychotherapy with my former therapist. Ben is a truly gifted therapist."



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    Deep depression is like a bad dream that never ends. It alters our perceptions of ourselves and the world, and causes unbelievable suffering. While depressed, it is very difficult to remember how if feels to be happy, or how to find your way back to feeling normal. Anyone suffering from severe depression, needs immediate, effective treatment, which should usually include both psychological (mental/emotional/spiritual) as well as physical interventions

    Lower level depression is even more common in our culture, and easier to hide. We tend to seek happiness by trying to deny or get rid of our pain. But this approach doesn't work. We can spend our lives running from ourselves. Living a life of constant distraction and activity may give temporary satisfaction but will never end in fulfillment. What is it that we all want? Is it enough for you to not be depressed? Or would you like to be truly happy? Well-Being is more than the absence of depression.

    The pre-requisites for true happiness:

    1. Compassion for yourself (Self-Acceptance)

    2. Self-Awareness (Mindfulness)

    3. A mind un-cluttered by too many thoughts

    An alternative depression therapy should focus not just on the resolution of symptoms, but on raising the consciousness of the individual. This website is your portal to a deeper exploration of what it means to find your Self. Effective alternative therapies treat the whole person, so the benefits go beyond the resolution of symptoms. While millions of Americans are suffering from depression, millions more are deeply unsatisfied with life.

    Mind-Body approaches help you to experience your full Aliveness in every moment and in every breath.


    Effective psychotherapy is experiential, transformational, and challenges one's distorted thinking. The relationship between therapist and client is a totally unique healing partnership. Alternative Depression Therapy leads to the discovery that the self-images, thoughts, jobs, roles and beliefs which make up the ego or personality, are not the Essential Self. When we narrowly define ourselves we become fearful, vulnerable and unhappy. Through self-acceptance, compassion, and mindfulness we begin to discover our true nature. True healing is the realization that at your core, you are already whole, and lacking in nothing.

    Energy Psychology is a rapidly emerging dimension of therapy that works quickly and deeply by working on an energetic level. Energy Psychology techniques such as EFT/Meridian Tapping balance the body's energy and produce subtle electrochemical changes in the brain and nervous system, producing deep and permanent changes in one's emotional state. In this way, issues that once took weeks, months or years of therapy, can often be eliminated in a fraction of the time.

    Meditation techniques, when used properly, can be the most effective and direct path to Self Awareness and peace of mind. Meditation is a way of being your own therapist. It is a way to get beyond self-created illusions. It decreases stress, teaches us to relax deeply, to live in the present moment, and to let go. Combined with Energy Psychology and psychotherapy, it is a powerful catalyst for profound insight and freedom from the trappings of the over-thinking mind.

    More and more mental health professionals are now coming to recognize the power and effectiveness of an alternative depression therapy -- integrating the practice and concepts of meditation, yoga, and energy psychology with psychotherapy.


    Please take your time to explore this website, for ideas, resources, and approaches to treating depression naturally and effectively. Alternative medicines, complimentary therapies, and self-help tools are all available to assist you on your journey to recovery, and far beyond!


    The Alternative Depression Therapy website may serve as a self-help tool, but the use of this information does not constitute a therapist/client relationship and should not serve as a means of self-diagnosis or a substitution for actual psychotherapy. The information on this site is for informational purposes only. If you are experiencing symptoms of depression it is advised that you see your doctor or therapist for an evaluation. If you are having active thoughts of suicide please call 911 or the National Suicide Hotline: 1-800-SUICIDE.

    For information about Psychotherapy, Energy Coaching, and Meditation
    instruction in Santa Rosa, California, please contact:

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    Benjamin Schwarcz, MA, MFT
    Licensed Psychotherapist (Lic# mfc35606)

    EFT Practitioner
    Authorized teacher of Kriya Yoga

    509 7th Street
    Santa Rosa, CA 95401

    707/326-5566

    Call for a Free Initial Consultation in Santa Rosa



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    Donations for maintaining the Alternative Depression Therapy website are gratefully appreciated!


    Copyright 2004-2010 Benjamin Schwarcz. No part of the Alternative Depression Therapy website may be reproduced or copied for commercial purposes without written permission.





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