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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. Wherever you are located in New Jersey from Atlantic City to West New York or even Newark, or anywhere else nearby, 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  • You are withdrawn or apathetic about relationships that used to matter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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John Armando
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start by putting the puzzle together that explains how things got the way the are for you. We'll identify the efforts you made to live your best life, but that ultimately may have fallen short. And then we'll patch together a plan that can work.


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Together, we will:

start by putting the puzzle together that explains how things got the way the are for you. We'll identify the efforts you made to live your best life, but that ultimately may have fallen short. And then we'll patch together a plan that can work.

Something to know about my approach is:

that I don't see you as broken and needing to be fixed, and I don't judge. I see you and I as the same: humans struggling to find meaning, and trying to be effective in what matters most deeply to us. We'll work together to help you get unstuck.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Aging and Getting Older
  • Anxiety
  • Coping with medical illnesses
  • Couples Therapy
  • Life Transitions
  • Relationship issues
  • Stress Management
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John Armando remote and phone therapy in Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
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Olga Da Silva
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We will process relationship and sleep issues, anxiety, depression, traumas, grief, substance use so that past experiences won't hinder the present. I use a unique combination of therapies: EMDR, IFS and somatic approach.


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We will process relationship and sleep issues, anxiety, depression, traumas, grief, substance use so that past experiences won't hinder the present. I use a unique combination of therapies: EMDR, IFS and somatic approach.

Something to know about my approach is:

Together we will identify triggers, develop awareness, honor and heal unhealthy strategies, recognize thoughts and understand beliefs we have created about ourselves and the world, above all develop self-compassion for the experiences we have had.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Adult ADHD
  • Anxiety
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  • Career
  • Career Change
  • Childhood Emotional Neglect
  • Childhood Trauma
  • Complex PTSD (C-PTSD)
  • Complex Trauma
  • Depression
  • EMDR
  • Functional Anxiety
  • Generalized Anxiety
  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  • grief
  • High functioning autism
  • Illness
  • Insomnia and Sleep Problems
  • Narcissist recovery
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Trauma EMDR
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Olga Da Silva remote and phone therapy in New Jersey, New York
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Nour Al Ghriwati
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Assess your teen and family goals for treatment, challenge thinking traps, overcome fears, set goals, and navigate setbacks throughout the way.


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Assess your teen and family goals for treatment, challenge thinking traps, overcome fears, set goals, and navigate setbacks throughout the way.

Something to know about my approach is:

I offer evidence-based therapies that have been proven to help hundreds of thousands of people with similar difficulties. Together, we will collaborate to address any anxiety and/or depression your teen may be experiencing using CBT or ACT.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • ADHD Testing
  • Anxiety
  • Chronic Illness
  • Chronic Illness Management
  • Depression
  • High-functioning anxiety
  • Learning Disabilities
  • Psychological/Neurocognitive Evaluations
  • Teenagers
  • Teen anxiety
  • teen depression
  • Teen issues
  • Test/Performance Anxiety
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Nour  Al Ghriwati remote and phone therapy in Alabama, Arizona, Delaware, District Of Columbia, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Wyoming
Picture of Della S. Lusk, Ph.D., therapist in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District Of Columbia, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin
Della S. Lusk, Ph.D.
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I'm trained as a Bilingual Clinical Psychologist; my training and experience allows me to work with the widest range of issues possible.


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I'm trained as a Bilingual Clinical Psychologist; my training and experience allows me to work with the widest range of issues possible.

Something to know about my approach is:

I generally use a cognitve behavioral therapy (CBT) approach with most clients.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Adolescents
  • Adult Children of Alcoholics
  • Adulting
  • Adults
  • Anxiety
  • Child or Adolescent Therapy
  • Children
  • Codependency
  • College Students
  • Coping with medical illnesses
  • Executive Coaching
  • Graduate Students
  • High-functioning anxiety
  • Personal growth
  • Psychological/Neurocognitive Evaluations
  • Starting College
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Della S. Lusk, Ph.D. remote and phone therapy in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District Of Columbia, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin
Picture of Katherine Bracken, therapist in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, District Of Columbia, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin
Katherine Bracken
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I work from a trauma-informed perspective. We'll explore healthy ways to process emotions, and skills to create positive change in your life that are consistent with your own goals and values, all while building a strong therapy relationship.


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Together, we will:

I work from a trauma-informed perspective. We'll explore healthy ways to process emotions, and skills to create positive change in your life that are consistent with your own goals and values, all while building a strong therapy relationship.

Something to know about my approach is:

I seek to create a space where all humans feel safe and respected. I will help you build emotional courage to change while holding space for you to heal and grow. I'm rigorously trained in DBT and CBT. You'll learn lots of useful skills and tools.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Chronic Illness
  • Complex PTSD (C-PTSD)
  • Depression
  • Emotional Disturbance
  • Impulse Control Disorders
  • Personality Disorders
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Katherine Bracken remote and phone therapy in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, District Of Columbia, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin