Written by Maria Boncyk, LCSW | Reviewed July 2026
This content is for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional mental health advice, diagnosis, or treatment. If you are experiencing a mental health crisis, please contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988.
Maria Boncyk, LCSW provides fully virtual depression therapy to teens and adults across New York and Massachusetts. She works with persistent low mood, emotional numbness, and disconnection using relational, psychodynamic, and EMDR approaches that address what sits underneath depression. A free 25-minute consultation is the first step.
When Everything Feels Heavier Than It Should
Depression does not always look like sadness. Often it looks like waking up already tired, moving through the day on autopilot, and feeling a strange distance from things that used to matter to you. Food loses its taste, conversations take effort, and the gap between how you appear and how you feel keeps widening. You might still be showing up to work, answering messages, keeping the household running, while privately wondering why everything requires so much force. Some people feel a heavy sadness they cannot explain. Others feel almost nothing at all, a flatness that is harder to describe and easier to hide. Depression also tells a convincing story about itself, that this is just who you are, that nothing will help, that other people have real problems. That story is a symptom, not a fact. If your energy, motivation, sleep, or sense of connection has been diminished for weeks or months, what you are experiencing deserves attention and responds to treatment.
How Maria Approaches Depression Differently
Many approaches to depression focus on correcting thoughts and adding behaviors, and those tools have value. Maria’s work goes further into the question of why the depression is there. In her fifteen-plus years of clinical experience, depression frequently traces back to losses that were never fully grieved, needs that went chronically unmet, relationships where you learned to shrink yourself, or old experiences the mind pushed down but the body still carries. Sessions weave together psychodynamic exploration, which surfaces the patterns and history feeding the low mood, relational work that examines how you connect with others and with yourself, and somatic awareness that reconnects you with a body that depression often numbs. Where depression is tangled with painful memories or a harsh inner voice formed by earlier experiences, EMDR therapy helps reprocess the root material rather than only managing its symptoms. This is depth work delivered with warmth and directness, and it happens virtually, so clients anywhere in New York or Massachusetts can access it without adding a commute to days that already feel heavy.
Ready to Take the First Step?
Depression Therapy sessions are held virtually, so you can meet with Maria from anywhere in New York or Massachusetts. Request a free 25-minute consultation to see if it feels like the right fit, with no commitment required.
What the Process Looks Like
Everything begins with a free 25-minute consultation where you can describe what has been happening and ask anything you want about how Maria works. The first full sessions map your history, your current life, and what a meaningful change would look like for you, because relief means something different to everyone. Sessions are weekly, 50 minutes, over a secure telehealth platform. Depression work tends to move in layers. Early progress often looks like small returns of energy or moments of genuine feeling. Middle work addresses the underlying patterns, and later work consolidates a different relationship with yourself. Some clients feel notable shifts within a few months, while longstanding depression that began early in life usually asks for a longer commitment. Maria will be honest with you about what she observes, because honest reflection is part of what makes therapy work.
Who Benefits Most From This Approach
This work fits teens and adults who sense there is something underneath their depression, people who have tried self-help strategies, or even previous therapy focused only on coping skills, and found the heaviness returning. It is especially suited to those whose low mood connects to family history, identity, loss, or relationships that taught them their needs were too much. Clients must be located in New York or Massachusetts, where Maria holds licenses. Weekly outpatient therapy is not the right level of care for everyone. If you are having thoughts of ending your life or cannot maintain basic safety, please call or text the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988 or go to your nearest emergency room, and know that more intensive treatment options exist and work. Reaching out for help with depression is not an admission of failure. It is one of the most reasonable things a person can do, and you do not need to wait until things get worse to deserve it.
Virtual Depression Support for New York and Massachusetts
One of the cruelest features of depression is that it drains the exact energy needed to seek help. Virtual therapy lowers that barrier. There is no commute, no waiting room, just a private conversation from your own space anywhere in New York State or Massachusetts. Appointments are available Monday through Thursday from 9 AM to 7 PM Eastern. Maria is an out-of-network (OON) provider who confirms coverage details with each client first, provides monthly invoices for out-of-network reimbursement, and keeps a limited number of sliding scale spots for clients who could not otherwise access therapy, because cost should not be the reason depression goes untreated.
Common Questions, Answered Directly
How do I know if I am depressed or just tired?
Tiredness lifts with rest. Depression tends to persist regardless of sleep, and it usually brings companions: loss of interest, emotional flatness, self-critical thoughts, changes in appetite, or a sense of disconnection lasting two weeks or more. If rest is not restoring you, it is worth talking to a professional.
Can therapy help depression without medication?
For many people, yes. Psychotherapy is an evidence-based treatment for depression on its own, and it also works well alongside medication. Maria helps clients address the experiences and patterns underneath their depression, and coordinates with prescribers when clients choose to combine approaches.
What is the best therapy for depression in New York?
The best therapy is the one that addresses your specific depression. For low mood rooted in past experiences, loss, or relationship patterns, depth-oriented approaches like psychodynamic therapy and EMDR reach material that surface-level techniques miss. Maria Boncyk, LCSW offers this work virtually across New York and Massachusetts.