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Depression can make daily life feel heavy, exhausting, and emotionally draining. At Still Waters Psychiatry, we provide compassionate depression therapy focused on emotional wellness, mental clarity, and long-term healing. Our personalized care helps restore motivation, improve mood, and support healthier emotional balance.
What Emotional Wellness Means
Emotional wellness is the ability to manage feelings, cope with stress, and maintain a sense of balance in everyday life. Our goal is not only to reduce depressive symptoms, but to help you rebuild confidence, strengthen emotional resilience, and feel more connected to yourself and others.
Common Signs of Depression
Depression may appear as ongoing sadness, fatigue, lack of motivation, difficulty concentrating, sleep changes, loss of interest in activities, emotional numbness, or feelings of hopelessness. These symptoms can affect relationships, work performance, and overall quality of life.
Emotional wellness is the foundation of mental health. It reflects your ability to cope with stress, manage emotions, maintain healthy relationships, and experience fulfillment. Depression can weaken emotional wellness, making it difficult to feel hopeful, focused, or connected. Our treatment approach works to restore emotional strength, resilience, and confidence through personalized psychiatric care.
Signs You May Benefit From Depression Therapy
Depression can show up differently in every person. Common symptoms include persistent sadness, low motivation, emotional numbness, changes in appetite or sleep, fatigue, difficulty concentrating, irritability, feelings of guilt or worthlessness, and loss of interest in activities that once brought joy. If these symptoms interfere with daily functioning, professional support can make a meaningful difference.
At Still Waters Psychiatry, depression therapy begins with a comprehensive psychiatric evaluation to understand your emotional patterns, medical history, stressors, and goals. We then develop a customized care plan focused on symptom relief, emotional growth, and long-term wellness.
Medication Management
When medication is appropriate, we provide careful selection, monitoring, and adjustment to improve mood stability, energy levels, sleep quality, and overall functioning. Treatment is always guided by your response and comfort, with ongoing evaluation to ensure safe and effective progress.
Therapy Coordination & Skill Building
We integrate psychotherapy coordination, emotional coping strategies, stress management techniques, and routine development to strengthen emotional resilience. These tools help reduce relapse risk and support consistent emotional stability.
Lifestyle factors play an important role in emotional wellness. We provide guidance on sleep, nutrition, daily structure, and stress reduction to support healing and maintain long-term mental balance.
Ongoing Support & Long-Term Recovery
Depression care is not one-time treatment. Through regular follow-ups, we monitor progress, refine treatment plans, identify emotional triggers, and reinforce coping strategies that promote lasting emotional health.
Our care is compassionate, personalized, and evidence-based. We offer telehealth options, consistent follow-up, and a judgment-free environment focused on long-term emotional wellness and real-life improvement.
Still Waters Psychiatry provides compassionate, professional mental health and addiction care throughout Central Texas. Explore our locations below to find personalized psychiatric support near you.
We proudly offer telepsychiatry and in-person appointments across Texas .
Begin by scheduling your initial evaluation. In our first visit we focus on getting to know you, your challenges, and discussing your treatment goals. It’s a safe space to express what you’re going through and what you hope to achieve.
We’ll create a personalized treatment plan tailored to your needs and goals. Whether managing anxiety, stress, relationships, medication, or personal growth, this plan will guide your path to emotional well-being.
We’ll meet every two weeks to three months, adjusting as needed to support your progress. These sessions help track improvements, refine treatment, and explore strategies to keep you on the path to lasting well-being.
Together, we will create a treatment plan that truly works for you, helping you move toward lasting well-being.
Dr Taiwo utilizes third party billing services via Headway and Alma which are online billing platforms, this allow him to accept several insurance providers including:
Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Blue Shield of California, Carelon Behavioral Health, Cigna, Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey, Independence Blue Cross Pennsylvania, Magellan, and Quest Behavioral Health.
You can get an estimated cost of your visit by uploading insurance details to the link on the Headway website below
Or via alma at https://secure.helloalma.com/providers/adefemi-taiwo/.
New patient appointments usually last 1 hour and follow up appointments last 30mins.
Dr Taiwo is available via tele/ video appointments Monday - Thursday 7am- 4pm CST.
He is available for in person visits once a week on Fridays between 7am and 4pm CST.
For prospective cash pay patients, Dr Taiwo’s estimates are similar to most MD providers in the area.
New patients evaluations- $400 , Follow up visits- $200
If you are currently experiencing a psychiatric emergency, call 9-1-1 or to go to your nearest emergency room. You can also call the Suicide and Crisis Hotline at 9-8-8.
Pls log into the client /patient portal and send a message. You can also upload forms on the patient portal
https://www.nami.org. - Good resources for family members and loved ones of individuals with mental health issues.
https://www.pomodorotechnique.com. ADHD resource, evidence based for time management.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/sleep-hygiene-simple-practices-for-better-rest. Sleep hygiene
Dial 988 for the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, available nationwide.
Call Bluebonnet Trails 24/7 crisis hotline at 1‑800‑841‑1255, serving Williamson County.
For Travis County, call Integral Care Crisis Hotline at 512‑472‑4357.
We offer in-person and telehealth sessions for clients located in Texas. For residents of California, we offer virtual appointments only.
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