Living with chronic illness brings a unique set of challenges that can reshape your daily life, relationships, and sense of self. The unpredictable nature of symptoms, the frustration of medical uncertainties, and the ongoing adjustments required can feel overwhelming and isolating.
In our work together, I offer a compassionate space where your experiences are heard and validated—where the complex emotions that accompany chronic illness can be explored without judgment. As someone with lived experience of an autoimmune disease, I bring both personal understanding and 20 years of professional expertise in grief and trauma to our sessions. I’m also very open to exploring how chronic illness impacts your spiritual beliefs and practices, recognizing that health challenges often prompt deeper questions about meaning and faith.
I understand the realities of managing a chronic condition, which is why I offer convenient telehealth sessions you can attend from the comfort of your home and maintain flexibility for rescheduling when unexpected doctor’s appointments or symptom flares occur. Through our therapeutic partnership, we’ll navigate the difficult emotions while developing practical strategies to enhance your quality of life, nurture important relationships, and cultivate resilience within the realities of your condition. You don’t have to walk this path alone.
Email me today, or, if you’re ready to make an appointment, you can schedule an appointment here.
Caring for someone with a chronic illness carries its own weight—one that often goes unspoken. You may find yourself managing appointments and medications while also holding down a job, a household, or a family, all while quietly grieving the relationship or the future you once imagined. Exhaustion, guilt, resentment, and fear can all coexist, and there’s rarely space to say so out loud.
I understand this from both directions. Having lived with an autoimmune disease myself, I’ve also seen what it asks of the people closest to me—and I bring that dual awareness, along with 20 years of experience in grief and trauma work, into sessions with caregivers. This is a place where you can put down the responsibility of managing everyone else’s feelings and simply attend to your own, without guilt and without having to justify why caregiving is hard.
Whether you’re a spouse, partner, adult child, or close friend, I offer telehealth sessions that fit around the unpredictability of your caregiving role—flexible enough to accommodate a sudden hospital visit or a flare that upends your week. Together, we’ll work through the complicated emotions of caregiving, protect against burnout, and find ways to stay connected to your own identity and needs even as you show up for someone else’s. Caring for a chronic illness is rarely a one-person job—you don’t have to carry it alone either.
Feel free to reach out by email, or, if you’re ready to schedule, check my availability here.
