Chronic Illness/Pain

Physical challenges also can affect our mental health.

Being sick or in pain all the time is hard physically, but it can also have a tremendous impact on your mental health. It’s unimaginable when you’ve been given a “forever” diagnosis.

In addition to feeling sick or in pain, you may also feel like no one really understands. Chronically ill people often battle depression, anxiety, and loneliness as well as their primary conditions.

Therapy can help you regain your personal power and agency, even when your health doesn’t want to cooperate.

If you have chronic illness or pain, therapy can help you manage your emotional energy and make new plans for the future. It gives you space and permission to grieve for your losses and vision of how life was “supposed” to go. It gives you tools to deal with health-related anxiety and guides you to set boundaries for yourself and others.

The best thing therapy offers chronically ill people is the opportunity to find every bit of available joy in their lives. You don’t have to be healthy to be happy.

You deserve to have the best version of your life possible, even in difficult circumstances. Your health will always be a big factor in your life, but it doesn’t have to be the biggest factor in your view of yourself and your happiness.

Let me help you find your way.

Are you ready to start feeling less lost at sea and more capable of controlling what you can control? Contact me today at (810) 214-0389 to start your healing journey.