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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 Westchester, the suburbs of Westchester, other nearby places such as Bellwood, 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  • You are withdrawn or apathetic about relationships that used to matter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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Identify your greatest challenges and top priorities. We will collaboratively set goals and a timeline for achieving them. I will teach you skills to improve your symptoms, accomplish your objectives, and enhance your quality of life.


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Identify your greatest challenges and top priorities. We will collaboratively set goals and a timeline for achieving them. I will teach you skills to improve your symptoms, accomplish your objectives, and enhance your quality of life.

Something to know about my approach is:

I use scientifically-based interventions to help you achieve your goals in a way that is sensitive to your unique strengths, beliefs, and background. My solution-focused approach helps you set, work toward, and achieve goals efficiently.

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  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Depression
  • Insomnia and Sleep Problems
  • Postpartum
  • Stress
  • Weight Management
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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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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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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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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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Identify your strengths, your goals and what tools and resources you have that will help you be successful.

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I use client-centered approach to therapy which means that the focus is on the client as the expert and I am there to help them identify their goals and support them on their journey. I use education and resources to help clients feel empowered.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Adjustment Issues
  • Adjustment to Medical Diagnosis
  • Aging and Getting Older
  • Anger Management
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Behavioral Disorders
  • Bereavement
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Bipolar II
  • Chronic Pain
  • Couples
  • Depression
  • Family Conflict
  • Grief
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Social Anxiety
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Raymond Annable
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Learn how to come to terms with past events that have led you to this point and accept, rather than fight, feelings such as anxiety, grief, guilt, and shame. I can also help you learn skills to build a life that you are happy to wake up and live.


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Together, we will:

Learn how to come to terms with past events that have led you to this point and accept, rather than fight, feelings such as anxiety, grief, guilt, and shame. I can also help you learn skills to build a life that you are happy to wake up and live.

Something to know about my approach is:

Many of my clients come to me at pivotal points in life. Times in life where you know you can't keep living the way you are but you can't see a way forward.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Adjustment to Medical Diagnosis
  • Alcohol
  • Anxiety
  • Health Anxiety
  • High Anxiety
  • High-Functioning Anxiety
  • Illness and Disease
  • Social Anxiety
  • Substance Use
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Raymond Annable 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, No...