Individuals Living With Chronic Illness or Disability
Maybe you’re getting used to a new health problem. Maybe your memory or your ability to move around is changing, and that scares you. Maybe you’ve lost a spouse or the people who used to help you. Or maybe you’ve retired, or lost activities that used to fill your days, and now you’re searching for purpose. None of this is easy. But a meaningful, even happy life is still possible.
I offer therapy for adults living with chronic illness, disability, and big life changes. Whatever you’re dealing with — grief, loneliness, worry, or a diagnosis that has changed how you live — you don’t have to face it alone.
My work is about listening carefully, understanding fully, and helping you find peace, purpose, and connection right where you are today.
A Space for What's Really Weighing on You
Chronic illness and disability aren’t just about your body. They affect your feelings and your relationships too.
I have direct experience supporting people facing diagnoses including Alzheimer’s, Frontotemporal and Lewy Body Dementia, Parkinson’s Disease, ALS, cancer, heart disease, lung disease, Huntington’s Disease, MS, kidney disease, and stroke.
I take your story seriously, and I build on your strengths as we work through these changes together — with clarity, and without judgment.
- Grieving a spouse, family member, or close friend
- Changes in your health, memory, or ability to move
- Questions about who you are after retirement or a big life change
- Chronic pain, or a serious or terminal illness
- Worry, sadness, or fear about the future
- Feeling lonely or cut off from others
- Adjusting to a life that looks different than you planned
- Thinking about meaning, purpose, and what you'll leave behind
- Changes or tension in your family relationships
FAQs
Due to conflict of interest, I cannot serve as a consultant for a family if I am already a therapist for someone in that family. I’m happy to provide referrals.
My child was just diagnosed with autism or a disability. Do I really need therapy, or should I just focus on getting them the right services?
Both matter. Getting your child the right support is essential, but so is having your own space to process what this means for you and your family. Many parents don’t realize how much they’re carrying until they finally have somewhere to put it down.
I feel guilty even considering therapy when my child or loved one is the one struggling.
This is one of the most common things I hear, and it’s understandable. But you can’t pour from an empty cup. Taking care of your own wellbeing isn’t taking anything away from your loved one, it’s what allows you to keep showing up for them.
Is this only for parents of young children, or do you work with families navigating disability at any age?
I work with families across the full lifespan, from parents of newly diagnosed children to adults supporting aging parents or adult children with disabilities. Every stage brings its own weight, and I meet you where you are.
My family looks fine from the outside. Is therapy still worth it if we're "managing okay"?
Managing and thriving aren’t the same thing. A lot of families I work with look put together on the outside while quietly exhausted on the inside. Therapy isn’t just for crisis, it’s for making sure you’re not just surviving your circumstances, but actually living within them.
Do you work with the whole family, or just the parent/caregiver?
Most of my work is individual, focused on the parent or caregiver carrying the emotional weight of the family’s situation. That said, I’m happy to talk through what structure makes the most sense for your specific situation during our free consultation.