Chronic Illness Support
Helping you Manage Symptoms, Fatigue and Pain
TELEHEALTH sessions on a secure platform.
We understand that chronic illness can be overwhelming and isolating. Managing symptoms, fatigue, and pain put a huge amount of pressure on a person. Adding to this, long-term health conditions are also mentally taxing.
Can Therapy Help with Chronic Illness?
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Guilt
- Fear
- Changing Roles/Abilities
- Sadness
- Relaxation strategies
- Coping Skills
- Anger
- Hopelessness
- Pain Perception
Explaining to family, friends, and co-workers about your illness and the way that it manifests in your life can feel overwhelming. Chronic illness sufferers are often met with mixed emotions when sharing their struggle with others. Unfortunately, this can mean being met with stigma and negative attitudes.
Chronic Illness is NOT...
- Always Visible
- Made Up
- The Person’s Fault
- Attention Seeking
- A Sign of Weakness
- Easy
Let's break the stigma!
We Can Help!
Our team of mental health professionals are prepared to help you to work through these challenges to create a meaningful and fulfilling life. Research tells us that chronic pain changes our thought processes, coping strategies, judgment ourselves, and increases anxiety and depression. Mind-Body therapies can help us address these changes using techniques such as, Tapping, Brainspotting, Meditation, Deep Breathing, and Body Awareness. We can also help you to navigate speaking to others about your illness, adjust to changing roles and abilities, and increase feeling of self-worth.
When Should You Seek Mental Health Counseling for Your Chronic Illness?
- Change in mood
- Sleeping more or less than usual
- Appetite Changes
- Social Isolation
- Finding less joy in hobbies
- Feeling hopeless
- Difficulty in taking care of responsibilities
- Substance use
- Trauma
- Feeling overwhelmed/stressed
Let us help you decrease your anxiety so that you can have a CALMER, HAPPIER LIFE.
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