For individuals experiencing chronic diseases, mental health issues may arise throughout their illness. Getting the diagnosis of a chronic illness can be devastating, confusing, and scary.
Available Treatment Options
Therapist interventions take many forms for patients dealing with chronic diseases. Counseling can include support groups, where people can interact with others going through the same thing. It also may include psychoeducation, where therapists help people learn more about anxiety, depression, or another mental health issue they may be experiencing. And traditional talk therapy is an option where counselors engage with patients and help them work through emotions.
People with chronic diseases may experience daily pain or discomfort, leading to mental health issues such as anxiety and depression. Counseling for chronic disease management addresses each person’s unique situation and considers the details of their experience. Techniques therapists could use include mindfulness practices to manage anxiety and pain, examining thought processes that may be unhelpful to mental health and physical recovery, or family therapy to help the family process the changes.
Therapists Who Specialize in Helping Those Who Struggle With Chronic Disease and Illness Management
When you are struggling, one of the most difficult things to do is ask for help. It takes courage, faith, and trust to reach out when life feels unmanageable or overwhelming. Yet taking that one step is often the very best thing you can do for yourself and those you love. I provide compassionate, competent counseling to children, teens, and adults in individual, and family/group settings. I use...
Imagine being able to move past traumas or a difficult childhood toward a healthier and happier you! I have over twenty years experience in the counseling, coaching and recovery fields. I use evidence based techniques as well as my extensive experience and empathic abilities to enhance your growth and healing, Mind, Body and Spirit! I fully believe that you are the expert of your own life and m...
Accepting New Patients. I work with teens and adults who are struggling with mood and/or behavioral issues, depression, anxiety, frustrated parents, relationship issues, cancer patients/survivors and individuals that hope for a better life. I consider every individual's strengths and needs in order to provide the best therapeutic interventions. I specialize in providing trauma focused cognitive...
Being human means that life is going to be difficult sometimes. We may need to explore different avenues for change. Current struggles may be due to a major life transition like a job loss, becoming a parent, experiencing empty nest, a death in the family, a new relationship, or a chronic or temporary illness. Sometimes nothing has happened and we just get "stuck in a rut" and can't seem to mak...
Today you are one step closer to a new you where you feel empowered and on a positive path to growth and well-being. Our goal is to help you uncover your true potential and lead a life that is worth celebrating. While we can't change difficult situations of the past, we can work together to better understand and resolve challenges in your life. By applying complementary therapy approaches and...
Congratulations!! You have reached the next step on your new journey in life! We know it is difficult to come to counseling and even harder to choose a counselor that works for you. We are in such difficult times and our ACCC family wants to work with you!! Working with ACCC means that we believe that every individual has the key to successful outcomes within themselves. Ultimately we believe t...
I specialize in adults, family, and child/adolescent age groups. I offer treatment for depression, anxiety, anger management, adjustment issues, substance abuse and trauma related difficulties. My approach is client centered, while identifying a specific treatment plan that will motivate and strengthen a positive belief system to encourage recovery. I am skilled in helping clients identify...
Certain patterns in your life may create impasses in how you relate affecting how you think, feel and act. Psychodynamic work goes beyond symptom relief. Our work together will allow you to integrate and change what otherwise cannot be experienced, verbalized and understood in a warm and deeply listened to environment. My services are tailored to the needs of each individual. Psychodynamic work...
I offer a therapy approach that integrates traditional counseling with state-of-the-art modalities such as Art Therapy and Somatic Experiencing to adults. My clients are seeking support, insight, treatment and skills to reduce stress, process grief, trauma and loss, explore options, and deal with difficult situations carried over from the past as well as day to day problems with relationships,...
Personal discovery and growth is one of life's greatest challenges but also provides one of life's greatest rewards. Through my own healing journey to address childhood trauma, I did many years traditional talk therapy. While I found this to be helpful, it wasn’t until I discovered somatic experiencing (SE) therapy that I began to experience a deep settling in my body and mind in a relatively...
My practice is currently full, however I periodically have openings; feel free to contact me and ask. The focus of my practice is: management of diabetes, LGBTQ+ identity/relationships, and healing from trauma/PTSD. I enjoy providing trauma-informed, strength based therapy to people of any nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion and race. I maintain current training in my are...
I offer preschool, child, adolescent, adult and geriatric psychological and neuropsychological testing; child, adolescent and adult psychotherapy; behavioral and cognitive treatment of anxiety and depressive disorders; and emotional and cognitive rehabilitation of central nervous system disorders. I perform Fitness for Duty evaluations for those struggling with vocational issues. I specialize i...
*Saturday morning availability coming soon! To bring my best expertise to our work together, I've dedicated a career (and a whole lot of bookshelf space) towards cultivating a deep and specialized understanding of the experiences of anxiety, depression, and grief. During this uncertain time, you may notice a decline in your mental health. You may find yourself wanting someone to process with. Y...
Suffering with stress, anxiety or grief? If you want to feel better, please feel free to contact me, if I can not help you, I will help you with finding someone who can. Life is too short to suffer. I am a holistically oriented psychotherapist, presenter, mindfulness based meditation teacher and integrative nutritional health coach with over 15 years of experience helping individuals and couple...
My practice focuses on solutions and teaching techniques for clients to help themselves. I work with teens, adults and seniors. I enjoy coaching parents. I have had experience in issues of bullying. I have done significant work in grief. I have been married for more than thirty years and together we have raised four children. My own life has helped me to counsel from a framework of wisdom gaine...
