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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 Freeport, the suburbs of Freeport, other nearby places such as Mount Vernon, Hempstead, or anywhere else in New York, 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  • You are withdrawn or apathetic about relationships that used to matter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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Together we will explore patterns that may not be serving you well. You will achieve more clarity and develop new tools for managing stress. My clients gain more self-compassion and confidence, ultimately living with more ease and joy.


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Together we will explore patterns that may not be serving you well. You will achieve more clarity and develop new tools for managing stress. My clients gain more self-compassion and confidence, ultimately living with more ease and joy.

Something to know about my approach is:

I have an insight oriented, Psychodynamic approach. Clients gain understanding about attachments, both past and present, as a guide toward more meaningful relationships. We will also use Cognitive Behavioral strategies to relieve symptoms.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Chronic Illness
  • Depression
  • Eating Disorders
  • Life Transitions
  • Trauma
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Create a therapeutic relationship that helps you feel heard and understood, which in turn leads to growth, self-compassion, and meaningful change in your life. We will figure out what is most important to you and identify how you can achieve it.


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Create a therapeutic relationship that helps you feel heard and understood, which in turn leads to growth, self-compassion, and meaningful change in your life. We will figure out what is most important to you and identify how you can achieve it.

Something to know about my approach is:

We will work together, meaning I help guide you and ask questions to encourage you to explore your inner world and you are open to the exploration and possibility of change. My approach requires us to both be participants in this important work.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Adult ADHD
  • Chronic Illness
  • Postpartum
  • Terminal Illness
  • Trauma
  • Women’s Health
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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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Courtlyn Shimada
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explore and navigate any obstacles that life may present. Therapy is a collaborative process where you are the expert on your own experiences, and I’m here to offer structured support and guidance.


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explore and navigate any obstacles that life may present. Therapy is a collaborative process where you are the expert on your own experiences, and I’m here to offer structured support and guidance.

Something to know about my approach is:

Whether short-term or long-term I believe in goal-oriented therapy. And if you don’t know what those goals are yet, don’t worry, we’ll figure them out together!

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Chronic Illness
  • Complex PTSD (C-PTSD)
  • Depression
  • Depressive Disorders
  • Family Dynamics
  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  • Grief
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Racial Trauma
  • Relational Trauma
  • Relationships
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Diana Tumminia
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Together we will form a collaborative partnership that in a safe and nurturing environment will help you to shape your emotional, cognitive and behavioral patterns and past experiences into a functional and positive way of living.


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Together we will form a collaborative partnership that in a safe and nurturing environment will help you to shape your emotional, cognitive and behavioral patterns and past experiences into a functional and positive way of living.

Something to know about my approach is:

My overall approach is eclectic and holistic, pulling from different theories and techniques that are best for each client. Body-mind-spirit practice is often achieved through insight-oriented, mindfulness, CBT/ACT, and psychosomatic interventions.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Bereavement
  • Cancer
  • Caregivers
  • Chronic Illness
  • Communication Skills
  • Depression
  • Faith and Spirituality
  • Grief
  • Illness and Disease
  • Life Transitions
  • Motherhood
  • Parenting
  • Perinatal Mood/Anxiety Disorders
  • Personal Growth
  • Postpartum Depression
  • Relationships
  • Self-Esteem
  • Stress
  • Terminal Illness
  • Women
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