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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 Paterson, the suburbs of Paterson, other nearby places such as Passaic, Hackensack, or anywhere else in New Jersey, 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  • You are withdrawn or apathetic about relationships that used to matter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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Therapy is a space to feel grounded in which we will work to gain a non-judgmental perspective on your struggles and put our minds together to strategize ways forward.

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I take a pragmatic and eclectic approach by integrating psychodynamic theories with evidence-based tools. I draw on treatments ranging from CBT, ACT, and CPT, tailoring treatment to your unique needs and experiences.

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  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  • College Students
  • Concussion/Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
  • Depression
  • First Responders
  • Healthcare Professionals
  • Insomnia and Sleep Problems
  • Interpersonal Difficulties
  • Job Stress
  • Life Transitions
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Relationship Conflict
  • Relationship Distress
  • Relationships
  • Relationship Skills
  • Social Anxiety
  • Trauma
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Scott Levson 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, North...
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explore how your feelings of anxiety, depression, and stress impact your daily functioning. We will use different tools to help you develop new ways of understanding and reacting to life stressors.


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explore how your feelings of anxiety, depression, and stress impact your daily functioning. We will use different tools to help you develop new ways of understanding and reacting to life stressors.

Something to know about my approach is:

Through gentle exploration and skill building, you will be guided to a place of understanding, acceptance, and compassion for where you are in your journey and how you got here. I like to use CBT, DBT, ACT, and mindfulness-based interventions.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Adjustment Disorders
  • Adjustment Issues
  • Adult ADHD
  • Aging and Getting Older
  • Anxiety
  • Assessments
  • Boundaries
  • Chronic Pain
  • Confidence
  • Cultural Adjustment
  • Depression
  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  • Grief
  • High-Functioning Anxiety
  • High-Functioning Depression
  • Life Adjustment
  • Life Transitions
  • Major Depressive Disorder
  • Mental Disorders
  • Psychosomatic Issues
  • Self-Esteem
  • Self-Worth
  • Test/Performance Anxiety
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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.

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  • Chronic Disease
  • Chronic Illness
  • Chronic Pain
  • Health Anxiety
  • Insomnia and Sleep Problems
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D. Leigh Geffken
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Together, we will find the issue/block that is troubling you as a whole person. We view wellbeing as a combination of the heart, mind and body.


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Together, we will find the issue/block that is troubling you as a whole person. We view wellbeing as a combination of the heart, mind and body.

Something to know about my approach is:

I ask the question: what disrupts your connection with yourself and the world around you? Whether the cause for the disconnect be traumatic events, bouts of depression. persistent anxiety or the inability to cope.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Abuse
  • Adjustment Issues
  • Adoption
  • Adult Children of Alcoholics
  • Alcohol
  • Ancestral Trauma
  • Anorexia
  • Anxiety
  • Anxiety in Relationships
  • Attachment Disorders
  • Autism Spectrum
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Birth Trauma
  • Body Dysmorphia
  • Bulimia
  • Bullying
  • Childhood Abuse or Neglect
  • Childhood Trauma
  • Complex Trauma
  • Concussion/Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
  • Congenital Disease
  • Coping Skills
  • Depression
  • Developing Secure Attachment
  • Divorce and Separation
  • Eating Disorders
  • Failure to Launch
  • Fear of Failure
  • Fears and Phobias
  • High-Functioning Anxiety
  • Intergenerational Trauma
  • Life Transitions
  • Medical Trauma
  • Mind-Body Connection
  • Motherhood
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
  • Panic Attacks
  • Panic Disorders
  • Personality Disorders
  • Postpartum Depression
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Religious Trauma
  • Secondary Trauma
  • Sexual Abuse
  • Social Anxiety
  • Spiritual Trauma
  • Substance Use
  • Test/Performance Anxiety
  • Vicarious Trauma
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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.

Something to know about my approach is:

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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Dr. Lauren Masuda 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, ...