When Depression Makes Every Day Feel Heavy
Depression rarely announces itself. It shows up as mornings that feel impossible, plans you keep cancelling, and a flatness that makes it hard to care about things you used to love. You might still be getting through work and family life, but it takes everything you have.
Maybe you have looked into online depression therapy and stalled on the cost, the waitlists, or the idea of finding the energy to explain everything to a stranger. Maybe you have tried to handle it alone. Some weeks are better, but the bigger pattern keeps coming back.
Ummah Support Services (USS) was built for this gap. Taskeen Baig, MSW RSW, leads structured virtual therapy groups for depression across Canada. Her practice centres BIPOC, Muslim, South Asian, newcomer and postpartum communities, and anyone who has been priced out of weekly individual sessions.
What Group Therapy for Depression Looks Like
Group therapy for depression brings people together, guided by a registered clinician, to learn and practise skills that help with low mood. Sessions are structured. Each one has a clear focus, a skill to learn, and a way to try it during the week.
USS groups draw on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), which looks at how thoughts, actions and mood feed each other, and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), which builds skills for riding out painful emotions. Both are well-researched approaches for depression. Everything happens online, so you can join from home on evenings and weekends.
How Taskeen Approaches Depression Care
Taskeen Baig, MSW RSW, has more than ten years of clinical experience, including work with high-risk clients. That work taught her that people tend to do better when therapy has a clear direction. So she built Active Psychotherapy, a step-by-step framework where each session builds on the last instead of starting over.
Facilitation matters in a depression group. Taskeen runs sessions so no one dominates and everyone can take part at their own pace, including on days when speaking up feels like too much. Her training includes:
- CBT, DBT and EFT: practical tools for shifting low-mood patterns and handling hard emotions
- Relational, attachment, racial and intergenerational trauma: care that recognizes how history and identity can shape depression
- San'yas Indigenous Cultural Safety and anti-racism training: a culturally safe space for BIPOC and newcomer members
Getting Started Takes Three Small Steps
Book a Free 15-Minute Consult
Join Your Group
Build Skills Week by Week
What Can Change With Steady Support
Depression rarely lifts in a straight line, and no one can promise a timeline. What people in structured groups often describe is a gradual shift. Getting out of bed feels a little less like a battle, small tasks stop piling up, and there is more room for the people and things that matter.
The group itself is part of that shift. Hearing someone else describe the same heavy mornings can ease the feeling that something is uniquely wrong with you. And because USS runs on a monthly subscription for several hours of group therapy, support can be ongoing instead of something you ration.
Questions About Online Depression Therapy
Group CBT and DBT are well-studied approaches for depression. Many people find the group format adds something extra: hearing how others use the same tools in their own lives. Book a free consult and Taskeen can talk through whether a group is a good fit for you.
No. You share only what you are comfortable sharing. Sessions centre on learning and practising skills, so you can take part fully even on quiet days.
Many extended health plans cover services from a Registered Social Worker (RSW). USS provides invoices you can submit to your plan, so check your coverage for social work or psychotherapy services.
Taskeen Baig, MSW RSW, serves people living in Ontario, Alberta, Nova Scotia, British Columbia and Saskatchewan, with territorial permission for Yukon and Nunavut.
USS runs Postpartum Support groups for moms and for dads. Mention it in your free consult and Taskeen will help you choose between a postpartum group and a CBT or DBT Skills Group.
Group therapy is not an emergency service. If you are in crisis, call or text 9-8-8 any time to reach the Suicide Crisis Helpline. If you are in immediate danger, call 9-1-1 or go to your nearest emergency department.
Take the First Step Toward Lighter Days
Online depression therapy with USS is available across Canada, led by Taskeen Baig, MSW RSW, and built around evenings and weekends. Book a free 15-minute consult to talk through what you are feeling and which group fits.
If you are in crisis, please call or text 9-8-8, or call 9-1-1.
