Find Illness Therapists & Counselors in Lees Summit, MO.

 

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 Lees Summit, the suburbs of Lees Summit, other nearby places such as Overland Park, Kansas City, or anywhere else in Missouri, 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  • You are withdrawn or apathetic about relationships that used to matter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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Work through identifying and processing thoughts, emotions, interpersonal patterns; evaluate how those patterns are/are not serving you; make intentional choices for what you want your life to look like while relieving symptoms getting in the way.


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Work through identifying and processing thoughts, emotions, interpersonal patterns; evaluate how those patterns are/are not serving you; make intentional choices for what you want your life to look like while relieving symptoms getting in the way.

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Therapy can and will look different for every individual. Therapy is hard work, and also fun and rewarding. My approach to therapy is evidence-based and tailored to your needs and goals, which may change and pivot over the course of therapy.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Aging and Getting Older
  • Anxiety
  • Career Burnout
  • Caregivers
  • Chronic Illness
  • Confidence
  • Depression
  • End of Life
  • Families
  • Grief
  • Insomnia and Sleep Problems
  • Life Adjustment
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Relationship Skills
  • Self-Esteem
  • Stress
  • Work-Life Balance
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help you get more aligned with your values, goals, and passionate pursuits. When people are not feeling or doing well, it's typical to become less aligned with those aspects. Therapy aims to get people more aligned as to feel and do better.


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help you get more aligned with your values, goals, and passionate pursuits. When people are not feeling or doing well, it's typical to become less aligned with those aspects. Therapy aims to get people more aligned as to feel and do better.

Something to know about my approach is:

I am trained in a variety of cognitive-behavioral-based therapies, a proven approach to changing thinking patterns and behaviors in a limited number of sessions.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Addictions
  • Agoraphobia
  • Anxiety
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Chronic Pain
  • Depression
  • Emotional Disturbance
  • Fears and Phobias
  • Gay
  • Grief
  • Harm OCD
  • LGBTQ+
  • Mood Disorders
  • Mood Regulation
  • Motivation
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Panic Attacks
  • Panic Disorders
  • Procrastination
  • Resilience
  • Social Anxiety
  • Substance Use
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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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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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Emily Klamer
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Listen deeply to your stories, however many times you need to tell them, with curiosity regarding what is yet to be said. You will have a companion as you strive toward creating a life worth living.


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Listen deeply to your stories, however many times you need to tell them, with curiosity regarding what is yet to be said. You will have a companion as you strive toward creating a life worth living.

Something to know about my approach is:

Psychodynamic therapy/analysis explores psychic tangles that hold us back from fully living. My approach acknowledges that sometimes, we all could use some help shining a light into those vexing patterns that repeat despite ourselves.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Anxiety
  • Chronic Pain
  • Depression
  • Grief
  • Life Transitions
  • Mind-Body Connection
  • Sexuality
  • Spirituality
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Meghan McCoy-Smith
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Try on old patterns like clothes in a closet to see if they still fit. This is a practice space, a place of creation and brainstorming new ways of being who you want to be. Let yourself say the things that you've needed to hear yourself say.


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Together, we will:

Try on old patterns like clothes in a closet to see if they still fit. This is a practice space, a place of creation and brainstorming new ways of being who you want to be. Let yourself say the things that you've needed to hear yourself say.

Something to know about my approach is:

We'll examine the stories that you tell yourself that hold you back and keep you stuck. We'll learn to manage feelings and how we judge ourselves for them. We'll shift perspective on the values that we subscribe to and develop new skills to cope.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Adult ADHD
  • Depression
  • High Anxiety
  • Insomnia and Sleep Problems
  • Narcissistic Abuse
  • Trauma
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Meghan McCoy-Smith 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,...