Chronic Illness Counseling
Living with a chronic illness changes everything. It changes how you think and how you enteract with your loved ones and form friendships. How you do your hobbies and cook and clean your house. Since it changes everthing in your life, it also changes everything about your therapy. Our chronic illness specialized practice has everything you need to live your best life with your chronic illness.
Take Your Life Back From Chronic Illness
Work with a mental health therapist specialy trained to help clients live their best life even when their physical health isn’t cooperating.
Address Health-Related Anxiety
Anxiety is a completely rational response to chronic illness. But when anxiety feels out of control, or higher than the situation warrants, that’s when some support might be helpful. Let us be the one’s to help!
Feeling unwell for months, or years, is extremely anxiety producing. When you wake up with a new sensation all the sudden your head is spinning:
Is this is a new symptom?
Is this my new normal?
Did I do something to make this happen?
I need to look this up
I just need to ignore it
Maybe it’s in my head
Self
Gaslighting
Self gaslighting is a natural and difficult phenomenon to live with. It makes living with a chronic illness even more difficult. We can help you address, understand and process these complicated emotions.
Take Back
Control
Chronic illnesses are fantastic at making us feel like we have lost control of our lives. Chronic illness focused counseling can help you discover ways to take back control of your life.
Discover how to pace activities so you can do more during your day
Work on sleep disturbances in a chronic illness friendly way (often we are asked to avoid our bed accept for sleeping, that’s not realistic for many of us)
Learn how to balance acceptance and hope
Learn about pain theories and use that knowledge to understand how your pain effects your mind and body
Work on your relationship with your pain.
Learn how to do activities in a way that accomodates your pain and illness
Address any and all mental health struggles while considering your chronic illness.
When you’re experiencing both it’s impossible to treat either in isolation.