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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 Riverside, the suburbs of Riverside, other nearby places such as Berwyn, Hines, or anywhere else in Illinois, 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  • You are withdrawn or apathetic about relationships that used to matter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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highlight how you're doing the best you can with the skills you have, as well as identify achievable goals to help you build a life that feels meaningful to you.

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that I blend styles and treatment modalities. Our sessions will likely combine "going with the flow" of what you would like to talk about, with how to acquire additional tools and perspectives to help you achieve your goals.

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  • Chronic Illness
  • Cultural Identity
  • Insomnia and Sleep Problems
  • Mood Regulation
  • Stress
  • Trauma
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Jennifer Mahfouz
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not only address and alleviate the negative, but we will foster the positive! We can focus on quality of life, treating anxiety/depression, adapting to new life circumstances, navigating and building relationships, improving sleep, and managing pain.


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not only address and alleviate the negative, but we will foster the positive! We can focus on quality of life, treating anxiety/depression, adapting to new life circumstances, navigating and building relationships, improving sleep, and managing pain.

Something to know about my approach is:

I don't have a set approach. Every person is different and every problem is different, which means every treatment needs to be different. First we will identify what matters to you and what your goals are, then we will create a plan to reach them!

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Chronic Pain
  • Depression
  • Disability
  • Illness and Disease
  • Insomnia and Sleep Problems
  • Medical Trauma
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Lekesha Dean
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Discuss how you became the unique person that you are. We will explore tools that help you communicate both to yourself and others how you are changing. We will discuss what's important to you as you consider YOUR PAST, YOUR NOW, and YOUR FUTURE!


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Discuss how you became the unique person that you are. We will explore tools that help you communicate both to yourself and others how you are changing. We will discuss what's important to you as you consider YOUR PAST, YOUR NOW, and YOUR FUTURE!

Something to know about my approach is:

I believe that we are all experts when it comes to our own lives. What we need to move forward is not only within us, but around us in our interactions. Working with me you will uncover, reflect on, discover, and design experiences that grow you.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Adjustment Issues
  • Anxiety
  • Children of Divorce
  • Chronic Illness
  • Codependency
  • Depression
  • Disenfranchised Grief
  • Divorce and Separation
  • Grief
  • Holistic Wellness
  • Interpersonal Difficulties
  • Job Stress
  • Life Balance
  • Parenting
  • Relationship Distress
  • Self-Esteem
  • Self-Understanding
  • Self-Worth
  • Weight Management
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Kendall Wolfe
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All clients deserve to feel heard, seen, and appreciated. We can't solve all of the world's problems together, but we can find ways not only to survive, but to thrive!


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All clients deserve to feel heard, seen, and appreciated. We can't solve all of the world's problems together, but we can find ways not only to survive, but to thrive!

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I am proud to provide safe, affirming, and non-judgmental space for all people, but especially for LGBTQIA+ persons, non-monogamous and poly-identifying persons, members of kink and fetish communities, and persons living with HIV.

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  • BDSM
  • Ethical Non-Monogamy
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Kink
  • LGBTQ+
  • Polyamory
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Celeste Ballard
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Create a path for new ways of being in your life and solving issues that have felt stuck. Equally important is learning to have joy and success in life, learning how to access love and care while deepening in your understanding of yourself.


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Together, we will:

Create a path for new ways of being in your life and solving issues that have felt stuck. Equally important is learning to have joy and success in life, learning how to access love and care while deepening in your understanding of yourself.

Something to know about my approach is:

Meditation and somatic work help you to focus and retrain past thinking and traumas that you react to without knowing it. We go beyond understanding to actual retraining the bodies response to triggers. The mind and body can finally relax.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Attachment Disorders
  • Biracial Men
  • Biracial Women
  • Black and African American Issues
  • Buddhist Meditation and Spirituality
  • Cancer
  • Christian Counseling
  • Chronic Illness
  • Codependency
  • College Students
  • Couples
  • Cultural Issues
  • Depression
  • East Asian Cultural Issues
  • Failure to Launch
  • Faith and Spirituality
  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  • Grief
  • Latinos
  • Marriage
  • Meditation
  • Menopause
  • Mind-Body Connection
  • Mindfulness
  • Mixed Race
  • Parent-Child Relationship
  • Parenting
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Relationships
  • Religious Trauma
  • Sexual Abuse
  • Social Anxiety
  • South Asians
  • Spirituality
  • Spiritual Trauma
  • Stress
  • Trauma
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Celeste Ballard remote and phone therapy in Georgia, Illinois, Tennessee, Wisconsin