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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 St. Petersburg, Boca Ciega, Euclid St Pauls, Historic Kenwood, or even Holiday Park, 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  • You are withdrawn or apathetic about relationships that used to matter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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Kelly Sansone
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Whatever is getting in your way of reaching your potential, together we will work on identifying and setting goals towards living a healthier, happier life.


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Whatever is getting in your way of reaching your potential, together we will work on identifying and setting goals towards living a healthier, happier life.

Something to know about my approach is:

I believe that establishing a strong therapeutic relationship is key in having a positive therapy experience. When working with me, clients feel a sense warmth, compassion, and camaraderie that allow us to work together to achieve their goals.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Autism-Related Challenges
  • Behavioral Disorders
  • Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs)
  • Depression
  • Disability
  • Fears and Phobias
  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • School Issues
  • Social Anxiety
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Dr. Brian Sharpless
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After an evaluation, we will work together to meet your treatment goals using up-to-date clinical approaches. Good therapy is always focused on helping you better understand yourself and the changes you want to make. It is not about indoctrination.


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After an evaluation, we will work together to meet your treatment goals using up-to-date clinical approaches. Good therapy is always focused on helping you better understand yourself and the changes you want to make. It is not about indoctrination.

Something to know about my approach is:

I use contemporary psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral approaches to assess/treat many conditions including personality disorders (e.g., narcissistic; borderline), sleep disorders (e.g., insomnia), anxiety, depression, and more unusual conditions.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Borderline Personality
  • Histrionic Personality Disorder
  • Insomnia and Sleep Problems
  • Narcissism
  • Personality Disorders
  • Schizotypal Disorder
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Lynn Northrop
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Help you live your one precious life with purpose and meaning, even when you are faced with big stressors, losses and pain (physical and emotional).


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Help you live your one precious life with purpose and meaning, even when you are faced with big stressors, losses and pain (physical and emotional).

Something to know about my approach is:

I've been a psychologist for 20+ years. Prior to 2023, I worked in hospitals - providing care & training hundreds of young professionals to do the same. I am proud to report that the folks I trained are my biggest referral source. They trust me.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Acute Grief
  • Adjustment Issues
  • Aging and Getting Older
  • Aging Parents
  • Anticipatory Grief
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Burnout
  • Caregivers
  • Caretakers
  • Chronic Stress
  • Compassion Fatigue
  • Complicated Grief
  • Depression
  • Driving Anxiety
  • Fears and Phobias
  • Finding Meaning or Purpose
  • Gender Identity
  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  • Grief from Losing a Pet
  • Health Anxiety
  • Healthcare Professionals
  • High-Functioning Anxiety
  • Illness Anxiety Disorder
  • Job Loss
  • Job Stress
  • Loving Someone with a Mental Health Disorder
  • Major Depressive Disorder
  • Memory Loss
  • Menopause
  • Mind-Body Connection
  • Mindfulness
  • Moving and Relocation
  • New Job Transition
  • Prolonged Grief Disorder
  • Retirement
  • Secondary Trauma
  • Self-Acceptance
  • Self-Actualization
  • Self Care
  • Self-Compassion
  • Self-Esteem
  • Situational Grief
  • Situational Stress
  • Stress-Related Disorders
  • Suicide loss
  • Therapist for Other Therapists
  • Vicarious Trauma
  • Work Stress
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Jennifer Steiner
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help you get back to doing more of the things that make you feel like YOU. Pain, illness, and the emotions that come with it it do not have to define you anymore, and I can help you lean strategies to get you back on track.


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Together, we will:

help you get back to doing more of the things that make you feel like YOU. Pain, illness, and the emotions that come with it it do not have to define you anymore, and I can help you lean strategies to get you back on track.

Something to know about my approach is:

My passion is working with people who have chronic pain or illness to reclaim their sense of control and power over their life that medical issues may have taken away. Anxiety, Stress, Depression, & Anger are all common and we can work on that too.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Chronic Disease
  • Chronic Illness
  • Chronic Pain
  • Health Anxiety
  • Insomnia and Sleep Problems
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Jennifer Steiner 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, N...
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Brandy Goins
Together, we will:

Provide you the understanding you crave. Experience comfort, support, while we get to know who you want to be. Then we will help you achieve those goals with tools and skills so you can move forward managing on your own with new found confidence.


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Together, we will:

Provide you the understanding you crave. Experience comfort, support, while we get to know who you want to be. Then we will help you achieve those goals with tools and skills so you can move forward managing on your own with new found confidence.

Something to know about my approach is:

Together we work to help you unload your stressors, and reach your goals. Therapy will help build confidence in who you are, and can become, helping you to live a life with satisfaction and more ease than you are currently experiencing.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Chronic Disease
  • Chronic Illness
  • Domestic Violence Survivors
  • Grief
  • Identity
  • Kink
  • Polyamory
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Sex Addiction
  • Transgender
  • Trauma
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Brandy Goins remote and phone therapy in Florida, Idaho, Michigan, Texas, Vermont