Find Illness Therapists & Counselors in Battle Creek, MI.

 

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 Battle Creek, the suburbs of Battle Creek, other nearby places such as Kentwood, Kalamazoo, or anywhere else in Michigan, 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  • You are withdrawn or apathetic about relationships that used to matter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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Rebecca Broome
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Come up with a plan on how to heal and how to develop the skills you need to continue living a healthy life. That may mean workbooks or homework to do between sessions, but we'll work together to make than plan and then carry it out in your sessions.


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Come up with a plan on how to heal and how to develop the skills you need to continue living a healthy life. That may mean workbooks or homework to do between sessions, but we'll work together to make than plan and then carry it out in your sessions.

Something to know about my approach is:

Some therapists just sit and listen or ask how your week is going, but I'm going to engage you and we'll develop plans and you'll have work to do on your own to help you heal. This isn't just talk therapy. You're going to learn new skills with me.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Addictions
  • Alcohol
  • Anger Management
  • Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  • Behavioral Issues
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Children
  • Coaching
  • Codependency
  • Confidence
  • Coping Skills
  • Cutting
  • Depression
  • Domestic Violence
  • Drug Use
  • Dual Diagnosis
  • Emotional Disturbance
  • Family Conflict
  • Friendships
  • Grief
  • Insomnia and Sleep Problems
  • Life Transitions
  • Marriage
  • Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
  • Postpartum
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Pregnancy
  • Prenatal
  • Relationships
  • Self-Esteem
  • Self-Harm
  • Sexual Abuse
  • Spirituality
  • Stress
  • Substance Use
  • Suicidal Ideation
  • Women
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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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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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I provide a place you can reveal your thoughts and feelings without being concerned about a negative reaction. We work together over time to achieve the goals you desire, along with helping you become self-sufficient to deal with life’s curveballs.


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I provide a place you can reveal your thoughts and feelings without being concerned about a negative reaction. We work together over time to achieve the goals you desire, along with helping you become self-sufficient to deal with life’s curveballs.

Something to know about my approach is:

We will do a lot of work together, but my goal is to make “walking through” your uncomfortable moments more bearable. Sessions will begin with what is currently on your mind. Our work is a gradual and continuous, even outside of our sessions.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Chronic Disease
  • Chronic Illness
  • Chronic Pain
  • Congenital Disease
  • Depression
  • End of Life
  • Grief
  • Health Anxiety
  • Organ Transplantation
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Pam Raj
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Develop insight into the issues, self-awareness and coping skills!


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Develop insight into the issues, self-awareness and coping skills!

Something to know about my approach is:

I use a combination of interventions, with a primary emphasis on CBT and self-care. However, I tailor my approach to clients needs and preference. Other approaches include: psychodynamic, solution focused, attachment based, internal family systems.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Abuse
  • Addictive Behaviors
  • Adverse Childhood Experiences
  • Alcohol
  • Anger Management
  • Antisocial Personality Disorder
  • Anxiety
  • Assertiveness
  • Behavioral Disorders
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Borderline Personality
  • Child Abuse
  • Childhood Issues
  • Childhood Trauma
  • Chronic Fear
  • Codependency
  • Complex PTSD (C-PTSD)
  • Complex Trauma
  • Confidence
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Couples
  • Court-Ordered Therapy
  • Depression
  • Developmental Trauma
  • Divorce and Separation
  • Domestic Violence
  • Domestic Violence Survivors
  • Fears and Phobias
  • Gaslighting
  • Goals/Accountability
  • Grief
  • Hypochondriasis
  • Life Adjustment
  • Life Transitions
  • Marriage
  • Motivation
  • Narcissism
  • Negative Self-Talk
  • Nightmares
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Opioid Addiction
  • Panic Attacks
  • Panic Disorders
  • Postpartum
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Premarital Counseling
  • Procrastination
  • PTSD from Abuse
  • Recovery
  • Relationship Conflict
  • Relationship Distress
  • Relationship Skills
  • Self-Acceptance
  • Self-Compassion
  • Self-Concept
  • Self-Esteem
  • Self-Expression
  • Self-Harm
  • Self-Regulation
  • Sexual Abuse
  • Sexual Trauma
  • Social Anxiety
  • Substance Use
  • Suicidal Ideation
  • Teenagers
  • Teen Anxiety
  • Teen Depression
  • Teen Girls
  • Trauma
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Pam Raj remote and phone therapy in Michigan
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Lindsey Gould
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work to heal those wounds left from traumatic experiences. By healing those wounds and releasing the trauma, you can create a life in which you connect more deeply with others, return to yourself, or become your true self for the first time.


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work to heal those wounds left from traumatic experiences. By healing those wounds and releasing the trauma, you can create a life in which you connect more deeply with others, return to yourself, or become your true self for the first time.

Something to know about my approach is:

I'm never going to insist we work at a pace you're not comfortable with. If you need to go slowly, we'll go slowly. Therapy can be difficult because we talk about hard things. This is all about you and if you need to take small steps, we will.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Anxiety
  • Cancer
  • Childhood Trauma
  • Complex Trauma
  • Health Anxiety
  • Medical Trauma
  • Trauma
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Lindsey Gould remote and phone therapy in Florida, Michigan, South Carolina, Vermont