Therapy for Chronic Illness

Does your chronic illness leave you feeling exhausted and depleted? Do you feel left out when you can’t partake in common, daily activities? Do you often feel isolated, yet also feel the need to hide your condition from others?

A person’s well-being is reliant not just on their physical condition, but also on their mental health. While you may be struggling right now physically, please understand that you can thrive mentally and emotionally, despite your illness.

Life is Complex

A chronic illness is never something we plan for. Things we were once able to do, we may no longer be able to. Plans we once made, we may no longer be able to keep. Our positive emotions may be replaced by negative ones like fear, stress, anger, shame, and low self-worth.

While everyone experiences negative emotions from time to time, chronic negative emotions can make it that much harder for us to physically cope with our illness or find any joy in life.

Turning Pain into Strength

Therapy is a powerful way to face the challenges and subsequent negative emotions you may be dealing with. By feeling and acknowledging negative emotions, and learning ways to cope and accept our new reality, we can tap into our inner strength.

I specialize in helping people dealing with chronic illness process their thoughts, feelings, and experiences with their chronic conditions.  It is possible to not only survive psychological and emotional challenges, but successfully develop the strength to move forward.

If you’d like to speak to someone and learn practical strategies to help you live your life to the fullest, please reach out to me.