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Chronic illnesses not only affect your physical health, but they can also be harmful for your mental health. Many sufferers of chronic illnesses, like Diabetes, Lupus, chronic pain, or Crohn’s Disease end up with mental disorders ranging from anxiety to depression, which can make life harder.

Luckily, Mental Health Match can match you with a chronic illness therapist who can help you manage the stress, fear, and angst surrounding your diagnosis. Wherever you are located in Alabama from Auburn to Tuscaloosa or even Huntsville, or anywhere else nearby, Mental Health Match can help you easily find an experienced therapist or counselor who best meets your needs.

Signs You May Need Chronic Illness Counseling

If you’re not sure whether you need chronic illness counseling, we can help. Here are some signs that indicate that you should consider therapy:

  • You feel stressed out about the diagnosis and your future.
  • You have feelings of anxiety and sadness.
  • You have trouble concentrating throughout the day.
  • You are withdrawn or apathetic about relationships that used to matter
  • You don’t sleep well.

Read this article for tips about living with a chronic illness from a licensed therapist.

Feel Better with Chronic Illness Counseling

Now is the best time to seek treatment for a chronic illness or diagnosis. Mental Health Match can help you get started by connecting you with the most suitable therapist for your needs. Browse below or use our free therapist matching tool.

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Work together to help you develop new skills so that you can start to feel better. We may work on improving your interpersonal relationships, identifying problematic thoughts, putting new behaviors into action, or exploring emotions.


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Work together to help you develop new skills so that you can start to feel better. We may work on improving your interpersonal relationships, identifying problematic thoughts, putting new behaviors into action, or exploring emotions.

Something to know about my approach is:

I utilize evidence-based approaches and methods that have been proven to work. However, there is no single approach that works for every person across all situations, and so I practice in a way that is responsive to each individual's unique needs.

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  • Adjustment Issues
  • Anxiety
  • College Students
  • Depression
  • Fears and Phobias
  • Insomnia and Sleep Problems
  • Interpersonal Difficulties
  • Relationships
  • Social Anxiety
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Laura Orme
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understand your history, identify your attachment style, identify and process stuck points related to complicated losses, relationship experiences and/or trauma, learn to understand and relate to your internal world with more clarity and compassion.


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understand your history, identify your attachment style, identify and process stuck points related to complicated losses, relationship experiences and/or trauma, learn to understand and relate to your internal world with more clarity and compassion.

Something to know about my approach is:

My therapeutic approach lends itself to helping clients experience therapeutic connection and benefit from the get-go. I use treatments rooted in attachment and psychodynamic theory, to help my clients achieve deep and long-lasting change.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Anxiety
  • Chronic Illness
  • Codependency
  • Depression
  • Faith and Spirituality
  • Grief
  • Life Transitions
  • Motherhood
  • Personal Growth
  • Relationships
  • Trauma
  • Working Professionals
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Develop an integrative and personalized treatment that will work best for you. I utilize a variety of treatment approaches to best meet your needs, and welcome client feedback and collaboration.


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Develop an integrative and personalized treatment that will work best for you. I utilize a variety of treatment approaches to best meet your needs, and welcome client feedback and collaboration.

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I'm the founder of Dr. Emma Basch and Associates, a group practice with a shared passion for women's mental health and the perinatal period. We treat a wide variety of concerns and utilize numerous evidence-based treatment approaches.

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  • Anxiety Disorders
  • College Students
  • Concussion/Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
  • Couples
  • Depression
  • Developmental Trauma
  • Food and Eating Concerns
  • Healthcare Professionals
  • Infertility
  • Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) / Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
  • LGBTQ Family Development
  • Neurodivergence
  • NICU Trauma
  • Panic Disorders
  • Parenting Skills
  • Postpartum Anxiety
  • Postpartum Depression
  • Postpartum Mood Disorders
  • Sexual Trauma
  • Women’s Health
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Emma Basch remote and phone therapy in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District Of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New...
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Dr. Brian Curtis
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create an individualized treatment plan to begin immediately overcoming your sleep difficulties. I offer the most effective, gold standard treatments for chronic insomnia, nightmare disorder, and other sleep difficulties. No pills. No side effects.


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Together, we will:

create an individualized treatment plan to begin immediately overcoming your sleep difficulties. I offer the most effective, gold standard treatments for chronic insomnia, nightmare disorder, and other sleep difficulties. No pills. No side effects.

Something to know about my approach is:

If you're currently struggling with difficulties falling asleep, staying asleep, recurring nightmares, or other sleep-related difficulties, I can help. I'm one of only 218 board-certified behavioral sleep medicine specialists in the world.

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  • Borderline Personality
  • Insomnia and Sleep Problems
  • Mindfulness
  • Nightmares
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
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Lauren Barron
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identify unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors that are holding you back, and make changes that will help you live the life you want to live.


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Together, we will:

identify unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors that are holding you back, and make changes that will help you live the life you want to live.

Something to know about my approach is:

I practice evidence-based treatments including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and believe that our thoughts are extremely powerful in influencing our outcomes.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Anxiety
  • Chronic Illness
  • Depression
  • Disability
  • Marriage
  • Parenting Special Needs Children
  • Postpartum
  • Prenatal
  • Relationships
  • Trauma
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Lauren  Barron remote and phone therapy in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District Of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Nor...