Chronic Illness Therapy

Coping with Chronic Illness

Many chronic illnesses can require a lot of time and energy to manage; balancing medical appointments, medication changes, and worries about the future can all take their toll on your emotional and mental health. Just like with chronic pain, dealing with a chronic illness may mean that many aspects of the life you lived before the illness have been negatively impacted by your condition. You may feel like there was a “before” and “after” version of yourself. You may feel like managing your medical condition has become your full-time job or that it’s all consuming. Maybe you feel like you’re doing a decent job handling the emotional impact of your medical condition but you just can’t seem to make the lifestyle changes recommended by your doctor. If any of these experiences hit home for you, therapy with a health psychologist might help.

Therapy for Chronic Illness Management can help you:

  1. Learn strategies to help you balance managing your condition with doing more of the things you enjoy

  2. Get back to the activities that give your life meaning

  3. Improve your mood and reduce anxiety about the future

  4. Work toward accepting your medical diagnosis (if this is an important goal for you)

  5. Implement lifestyle changes that have recommended by your medical providers to support your physical health; for example: working on weight loss or diet changes to for someone with diabetes or heart disease.

I off a FREE 15 minute consultation call to help you decide if this type of therapy is right for you. Click on the button below to schedule a call.