Behind the Cheer: Treating Holiday Blues and Depression

Overview

The holiday season isn’t always joyful. For many clients, it brings grief, pressure, isolation, and emotional overload. This workshop offers practical tools for identifying and treating the seasonal sadness that hides behind the pressure for cheer.

Using a Brief Therapy lens, you’ll learn how to work with clients experiencing low mood, holiday-related conflict, or disconnection—without getting lost in long narratives. You’ll leave with strategies to create immediate relief, explore context, and validate emotional experiences in a way that builds trust and hope.

What You’ll Learn

How to approach holiday-related stress with empathy and structure
Tools for exploring grief, loneliness, and tension without reinforcing pathology
Strategies for bringing lightness, humor and perspective to emotionally heavy sessions
Brief interventions that empower creative mindsets and cultivation of personal practices for clients to turn to in this season.

Who Is This For?

This workshop is ideal for:

Therapists working with individuals or families during emotionally charged times and conflict
Tools for addressing generation gaps
Clinicians looking to expand their seasonal support toolkit
Professionals who want to learn how to work with mood in a relational and brief way
Anyone who feels stuck navigating sadness when the world expects celebration

Led by Esther Krohner, LMFT
Esther is a licensed therapist and international trainer with deep experience supporting couples, families, and individuals through systemic, solution-focused care. She is known for her ability to bring warmth, clarity, and creativity into complex relational dynamics. A long-time team member and associate director of the Brief Therapy Center, Esther’s approach is grounded in respect, adaptability, and empowering change—one meaningful conversation at a time.

Details
🖥️ 12:00-1:00 PST Live on Zoom
💵 $35 (or $28 if you sign up for our yearly bundle – here)
🎓 Counts toward certification in Brief Therapy Informed Care

👉 Register now– Limited spots available.