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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. Whether you are located in downtown La Mesa, the suburbs of La Mesa, other nearby places such as Chula Vista, National City, or anywhere else in California, 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  • You are withdrawn or apathetic about relationships that used to matter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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Shanda Brennan
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Together we will create a safe space for you to openly process struggles and triumphs. Women experience so many significant life transitions, and therapy allows us the opportunity to healthfully address these transitions to avoid becoming stuck.


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Together we will create a safe space for you to openly process struggles and triumphs. Women experience so many significant life transitions, and therapy allows us the opportunity to healthfully address these transitions to avoid becoming stuck.

Something to know about my approach is:

Therapy isn't one size fits all and I've embraced an eclectic approach and customize interventions based on your needs. I utilize multiple techniques and modalities in the therapeutic space, while honoring you as the expert in your life.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Anxiety
  • Autoimmune disorders
  • Borderline Personality
  • Cancer Diagnosis
  • Chronic Illness
  • Depression
  • Disordered Eating
  • Infertility
  • Life Balance
  • Marriage Counseling
  • Sex Therapy
  • Women's Issues
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Alex Kropf
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Anything that will help you live an enlivened, authentic, expansive, and free life.


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Anything that will help you live an enlivened, authentic, expansive, and free life.

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I practice from a trauma-informed, sex-positive, queer-affirming, feminist, spiritual, and social justice-oriented standpoint, and I am dedicated to challenging patriarchal-capitalist systems that have oppressed our minds, bodies, and spirit.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Aging and Getting Older
  • Artists & Creative Personalities
  • Attachment Wounds
  • Caregiver Stress
  • Childbirth
  • Chronic Illness
  • Chronic Pain
  • Compassion Fatigue
  • Complex PTSD (C-PTSD)
  • Complex Trauma
  • Creative Expression
  • Developing Secure Attachment
  • Emotional Caretakers
  • End of Life
  • Existential Issues
  • grief
  • Identity
  • Inner Child Work
  • Kink Community
  • Life Transitions
  • Mindfulness meditation and spirituality
  • Motherhood
  • Near Death Experiences
  • Open Relationships
  • palliative & hospice support
  • Parenthood
  • Post hospitalization therapy
  • Postpartum
  • Queer Identity
  • Relationship Exploration and Enhancement
  • Relationships
  • Self-acceptance
  • Self-expression
  • Self-love
  • Self Regulation
  • Sexual Empowerment
  • Sexuality
  • Sexual Pain
  • Sex worker support
  • Spiritual Exploration
  • Symbolic Grief
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Caroline Petruk
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Decrease stress and worry and have you feeling less anxious and more relaxed. Anxiety & overwhelm can keep you from truly living out your full potential. I can help you get back to having peace & meaningful connection in life.


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Decrease stress and worry and have you feeling less anxious and more relaxed. Anxiety & overwhelm can keep you from truly living out your full potential. I can help you get back to having peace & meaningful connection in life.

Something to know about my approach is:

I use an individualized approach that helps you identify and use your strengths, learn new coping skills, improve your communication, and create lasting changes. I will support you through life transitions and help you feel less stuck & stressed out.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Anxiety
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Cancer Diagnosis
  • Career Stress
  • Career Transitions
  • Chronic Illness
  • Creatives
  • Generalized Anxiety
  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  • grief
  • Health Anxiety
  • Illness Anxiety Disorder
  • Infertility
  • Life Transitions
  • medical anxiety
  • Medical Trauma
  • Millenials
  • Millennial Issues
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Perfectionism
  • Relationship Distress
  • Relationship issues
  • Women's Issues
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Rachelle Bloksberg
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reduce stress, depression & anxiety & increase self-esteem & hope, explore ways to manage & cope, & focus on what you want. I'll treat you respectfully without judgment. You'll find ways to improve your life & become the best version of yourself.


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reduce stress, depression & anxiety & increase self-esteem & hope, explore ways to manage & cope, & focus on what you want. I'll treat you respectfully without judgment. You'll find ways to improve your life & become the best version of yourself.

Something to know about my approach is:

Sessions are empowering & focus on what you want right away. My approach begins with compassion, connection, & acceptance. It includes humor, insight, and empowerment. Small steps can lead to big changes. Sessions are conversational and comfortable.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Addiction Counseling
  • Adolescents
  • Adult ADHD
  • Anxiety
  • Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  • BIPOC
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Caregiver Stress
  • Caregiving
  • Chronic Illness
  • Co-parenting
  • Couples Counseling
  • Depression
  • Grief counseling
  • LGBTQ+
  • Life Transitions
  • Men's Issues
  • Neurodivergence
  • Non-religious Premarital Counseling
  • Parenting
  • Parenting Children with ADHD
  • Polyamory
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Pre-Marital Counseling
  • Relationships
  • Religious Trauma
  • Self-Esteem
  • Self-harm
  • Spiritual Trauma
  • Stress
  • Therapist for other Therapists
  • Trauma
  • Women's Issues
  • Young Adults
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Jennifer Macias
Together, we will:

Everyone is different, but together, we will learn what strategies work best for you to get to where you want to go. We will explore how the past may be influencing the present, and in turn how we can influence how we want our lives to evolve.


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Together, we will:

Everyone is different, but together, we will learn what strategies work best for you to get to where you want to go. We will explore how the past may be influencing the present, and in turn how we can influence how we want our lives to evolve.

Something to know about my approach is:

I strive for my clients to feel seen and heard on a deep level wile creating a safe space to share what is most important. I will help you gain insight, and develop coping skills and strategies to deal with what life throws your way.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Anxiety
  • Chronic Illness
  • Depression
  • Grief counseling
  • Imposter Syndrome
  • Life Adjustment
  • Self Esteem & Confidence Issues
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Jennifer Macias remote and phone therapy in California, North Carolina