Chronic Illness & Medical Trauma
We offer in person and online face to face sessions for chronic illnesses and medical trauma. Getting to session should not be a barrier to your treatment. When recovering from medical trauma and/or living with chronic illness, finding a provider who understands both PTSD and the complexities of chronic physical conditions is essential. With extensive clinical and personal experience, I look forward to supporting you, read more about me below.
Medical Trauma
Medical Trauma Therapy utilizes specialized modalities to help process the psychological trauma of a scary diagnosis, painful medical procedures, medical negligence, or dismissive clinical environments.
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) focuses on challenging and changing unhelpful beliefs caused by the trauma. Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a body oriented therapy that helps release the physical tension and stress trapped in the body after invasive medical interventions, helping you feel safe in your physical skin again.
Narrative Therapy helps you re-contextualize your medical history and allows you to view yourself not just as a passive victim of a medical crisis, but as an activ agent who survived it.
Chronic Illness
Instead of 'fixing" the physical sickness, mental health therapy aims to reduce symptom flare-ups caused by stress, process the grief of a changing body, and maximize your daily quality of life.
Modalities will include ACT (Acceptance & Commitment Therapy), CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction), DBT (Dialectical Behavior Thearpy) and Medical Trauma Therapy.
Dementia and Alzheimers
Mindfulness-Based interventions use meditation, deep breating and present moment awareness to calm the nervous system and lower stress.
Traumatic Brain injury
Family members can be included in sessions and/or are trained on behvavioral cues and positive reinforcement to reinforce strategies at home.
Parkinsons
Mental health treatment for Parkinson's disease combines medication, talk therapy, and lifestyle changes to manage symptoms like depression, anxiety, apathy and psychosis.
Multiple Sclerosis and Fibromyalga
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on accepting difficult emotions while building psychological flexibility and living according to personal values.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps change negative thought patterns and reduces symptoms of anxiety, depression, and emotional changes.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) helps to manage mood swings, fear of abandonment, complex PTSD (C-PTSD) and related depression and anxiety, especially in treatment-resistant cases when the emotional baseline is too high.