Take Control of Your Mental Health Today

Struggling with depression or anxiety? You don’t have to face it alone. At New Beginning Mental Health, we provide compassionate, personalized psychiatric care online in Georgia. Start your journey toward healing with professional guidance, tailored treatment, and holistic support.

Personalized Care Plans

Treatment designed around your unique needs, goals, and lifestyle.

Online Appointments

Access care from home with sessions that fit your schedule.

Best Treatment

Up-to-date clinical guidelines ensure effective and safe care.

Depression must be placed in the overall context of your life for an accurate diagnosis. Our first interview will discuss what depression is and how it may be affecting your life. We will discuss how you have been feeling and how treatment can help.

Depression treatment

Do you know or suspect that you need medication to help you manage depression? In treatment for depression, you can expect effective care based on up-to-date clinical guidelines. In our initial meeting, we will assess what is going on, review your symptoms, and formulate a provisional diagnosis and a plan for treatment. This meeting will be longer than our typical session and will give you enough time to get comfortable with me. Click here to read more about what you can expect in treatment.

Provisional Diagnosis

Formulate an initial diagnosis and roadmap for managing

What is depression?

Depression is not who you are. It may be a large part of your life right now, and often when you are experiencing depression it may feel like there is no escape. However, there are many tried and true methods to treat depression. The way we diagnose depression is to look at your overall mood and energy levels, explore the loss of pleasure in activities that you previously enjoyed, and any feelings of worthlessness, helplessness, hopelessness. In addition to these symptoms, we look at how depression is physically affecting your body and mind. Changes in weight or appetite, changes in sleep patterns, slowed thoughts and body movements, becoming easily fatigued, and difficulty concentrating are all common symptoms.

Depression is not who you are!

People have been experiencing depression throughout recorded history, and methods for fighting depression have been developed for almost as long. There are many well-researched methods of fighting depression, and our goal is to guide you to the treatment that is right for you. Medication is one step of treatment which makes it easier to take the next steps. Changes in diet and activity levels are often needed. Discussing and learning about negative thinking, emotions, and behavioral patterns will not only guide you out of depression but often prevent it from returning in the future.

What to expect

Treatment for depression is a process. As symptoms improve, it is often family, good friends, or colleagues that will notice before you do. This is because the low moods and the learned negative thinking are often the last parts of depression to improve. Often people will find that their physical symptoms begin improving quickly, however. Improved sleep and appetite, greater ability to focus and concentrate, higher energy levels, and greater motivation are often the early results of a successful treatment plan. Based on ongoing evaluation of your symptoms and response to treatment, your treatment plan may be updated on an ongoing basis.