Depression Therapy

Do you feel like you’re quietly falling apart inside, but no one really sees you?
If you’re feeling empty, exhausted, or full of shame, please know this: you don’t have to face this alone.

At Ronee Miller Counseling in Tribeca, NYC, I offer in-person therapy for people who are struggling to hold themselves together — even as they keep showing up for others. Whether your sadness is loud or silent, whether your heart feels numb or like it’s breaking open, I want to gently invite you into a new experience: being seen, felt, and held in your pain without fear or judgment.

Call (212) 349-6544 or visit my website — and let’s talk. The way out begins with someone being with you in it.

What if your depression isn’t a flaw — but a signal that something in you needs love?

You might not even call it “depression.” You might just say:

• “I’m tired all the time.”

• “I don’t feel like myself anymore.”

• “Something’s missing.”

• “I feel like I’m failing.”

• “I want to cry, but I’m too shut down.”

You may not know what’s wrong — only that you’re hurting, stuck, or quietly drowning in a sadness you can’t explain.
Maybe you’ve learned to hide it well… until you can’t anymore.

At Ronee Miller Counseling, you don’t have to explain your pain. You just have to bring it.
There is room for your tears, your silence, your fear, your hope — even the parts you’ve hidden from yourself.

What therapy with me feels like

From the moment you step into my space, you'll be met — not analyzed.
You'll be felt — not fixed.
You'll be safe to breathe and unravel, slowly, with someone who won’t flinch or look away.

My practice is rooted in deep presence and connection. There’s no pressure to “get better” right away. No checklist to complete.
We go at your pace — with curiosity, kindness, and reverence for everything you've carried alone for too long.

Therapy with me often begins in the felt sense — of being met, of no longer being alone. Sometimes you may cry for the first time in years. Other times you may just sit quietly, knowing I’m with you, and that is enough.

Together, we create the safety your nervous system has longed for. That safety becomes the soil where change can take root — not forced, but organically… as something in you begins to trust.

When depression and shame go hand in hand

If you were shamed for your feelings growing up…
If you were told you were “too much” or “not enough”…
If you learned to equate love with performance or silence with safety…

Then your sadness may be tangled with shame — a deep belief that you’re somehow broken, defective, or unworthy.

But I want you to hear this with your heart:

You are not too much. You are not a mistake. You are not alone.

Shame is isolating — but it begins to loosen its grip when someone meets you with compassion right where it hurts.
That’s what we’ll do together.

For more on how shame impacts mental health, you might explore Brené Brown’s work or this brief overview on shame and depression.

When you’re using something to not feel everything

It’s common to turn to food, alcohol, work, scrolling, sex, or caretaking to get through the day. These aren’t failures — they’re strategies. Your system is trying to protect you from feelings that feel unbearable.

But the cost is high. Numbing one feeling often numbs them all.

In our work, we won’t take away your coping tools until something deeper, safer, and more true begins to rise inside you. I won’t shame you for how you’ve survived — but I will help you begin to feel again, in a way that’s tolerable, healing, and new.

You don’t need to perform. You get to be.

At Ronee Miller Counseling in Tribeca, my home office is quiet, comfortable, and deeply private. Mercy Shalom, my gentle dog, may greet you — offering comfort in the room just by being herself.

Here, there’s no need to be anything other than who you are — even if who you are right now feels lost, small, angry, afraid, numb, or unsure. I will meet you there.

You’ll begin to experience emotions in real time — not just talk about them.
And slowly, with care, you’ll begin to feel less fragmented, more whole.
Less ashamed, more alive.
Less alone.

What if this time, you didn’t have to go it alone?

If you're feeling heavy and hidden — like no one truly sees how much you're holding in — it’s time for something different.
Let’s begin this sacred journey together.

Ronee Miller, M.A., Psychotherapist

| Ronee Miller Counseling – Tribeca, NYC
Call (212) 349-6544 or visit my website

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