Therapy for Depression Relief: A Healing Meditation Through the Chakras
Therapy and meditation can offer profound relief for those living with depression.
In this post, we explore how guided affirmation and chakra-based meditation—rooted in therapeutic insight—can help restore balance, emotional regulation, and clarity. If you’re seeking a safe, supportive path toward healing, this meditation-based practice offers more than temporary calm. It invites lasting transformation through safety, presence, and connection to your inner truth.
This post is inspired by my YouTube meditation from the Everyday Therapy channel:
“Therapy for Depression Relief: Powerful Affirmation Meditation for Healing.”
As a licensed therapist specializing in depression, anxiety, and emotional healing, I created this meditation to gently guide you into your body, where insight lives and healing begins.
Why Use Meditation in Therapy for Depression?
Depression often brings disconnection—from our bodies, our feelings, and even our sense of self. Affirmation-based meditation supports healing by:
Rebuilding emotional safety
Restoring inner clarity and stability
Helping rewire internal narratives of worth, identity, and hope
Supporting the body as a safe place for insight and transformation
In my therapy practice, I’ve seen how reconnecting with the body and breath in a guided, structured way helps clients process difficult emotions, navigate depressive symptoms, and create lasting change.
This specific meditation works through four energy centers (chakras) to help you:
Feel grounded and supported
Reclaim emotional flow and joy
Speak your truth with clarity
Connect to inner wisdom
Let’s walk through each section of this healing practice.
🛡️ Root Chakra: Cultivating Safety and Stability
When you’re experiencing depression, the world can feel unsteady.
The Root Chakra—located at the base of the spine—represents your foundation.
It governs feelings of safety, grounding, and survival.
Affirmations for the Root Chakra:
“I am grounded, safe, and supported.”
“I trust that I am exactly where I need to be.”
“I release fear and embrace stability.”
By repeating these affirmations, you begin to rebuild your inner foundation. You signal to your nervous system: you are safe now.
As a trauma-informed therapist, I emphasize this sense of safety as the first step to emotional insight. Without it, the body cannot relax enough to process or heal.
🌊 Sacral Chakra: Emotional Balance and Inner Joy
Depression often dulls our capacity for joy and emotional fluidity.
The Sacral Chakra, located in the lower abdomen, governs our creativity, sensuality, and emotional flow.
Affirmations for the Sacral Chakra:
“I honor my emotions and allow them to flow freely.”
“I trust my emotional journey and the healing that is unfolding.”
“I deserve love, joy, and connection.”
This part of the meditation supports emotional regulation and self-compassion—two core areas I work on with clients navigating depression or relationship stress. Therapy and meditation together can support reawakening your capacity for pleasure, expression, and connection.
🔵 Throat Chakra: Speaking Your Truth with Confidence
When depression takes hold, our voices can become muffled.
The Throat Chakra helps you reclaim your truth and express yourself without fear or shame.
Affirmations for the Throat Chakra:
“I express myself freely and authentically.”
“My voice matters, and I speak my truth with love.”
“I release any blockages and allow myself to speak from my heart.”
In therapy, many of my clients begin to find their voice—sometimes for the first time. This meditation helps strengthen that process by encouraging inner and outer expression. Speaking your truth is a therapeutic act of liberation.
🔮 Third Eye Chakra: Trusting Inner Wisdom
Insight lives within you. But depression often clouds our connection to it.
The Third Eye Chakra, located between the eyebrows, represents your intuition, inner guidance, and clarity.
Affirmations for the Third Eye Chakra:
“I trust my inner wisdom and intuition.”
“I see clearly with compassion and understanding.”
“I release confusion and embrace clarity.”
“I am open to the healing insights that arise from within.”
In my therapy work, I often say: healing comes not just from logic, but from deep listening. This meditation creates the space to tune in—where healing can unfold from within, with gentleness and trust.
🧘 Final Integration: Carrying Your Healing Forward
After moving through each chakra and repeating these affirmations, the meditation invites you to gently return to your body and your day. But the healing doesn’t end there.
When you say these affirmations with clarity and confidence, they become more than just words. They become truths your body learns to believe.
As a licensed professional counselor, I offer therapy for adults and couples across Colorado—virtually and in-person from my Lakewood office. My specialties include:
Depression and anxiety relief
Trauma-informed therapy
Relationship and sex therapy
Ketamine-assisted therapy for insight and emotional healing
This meditation is one of many resources I offer to help you reconnect with your inner wisdom in a space of emotional safety, compassion, and transformation.
💡 Ready to Go Deeper?
📘 Download my free guide: Sacred Spaces — a therapist-created tool to help you create emotional safety at home
💻 Book a therapy session — virtual appointments across Colorado, or in-person in Lakewood
🎧 Watch the full guided meditation
