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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 Pittsburgh, Bloomfield, Downtown, Greenfield, or even Highland Park, 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  • You are withdrawn or apathetic about relationships that used to matter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.

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, ...
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Dr. Brian Sharpless
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After an evaluation, we will work together to meet your treatment goals using up-to-date clinical approaches. Good therapy is always focused on helping you better understand yourself and the changes you want to make. It is not about indoctrination.


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Together, we will:

After an evaluation, we will work together to meet your treatment goals using up-to-date clinical approaches. Good therapy is always focused on helping you better understand yourself and the changes you want to make. It is not about indoctrination.

Something to know about my approach is:

I use contemporary psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral approaches to assess/treat many conditions including personality disorders (e.g., narcissistic; borderline), sleep disorders (e.g., insomnia), anxiety, depression, and more unusual conditions.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Borderline Personality
  • Histrionic Personality Disorder
  • Insomnia and Sleep Problems
  • Narcissism
  • Personality Disorders
  • Schizotypal Disorder
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Samaria Williams
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Together, we will create emotional stability and whole brain/body integration. You will learn to thrive in life after trauma and cultivate the life that you’re proud of one day, one step at a time.


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Together, we will create emotional stability and whole brain/body integration. You will learn to thrive in life after trauma and cultivate the life that you’re proud of one day, one step at a time.

Something to know about my approach is:

My clients share feeling deeply supported, seen, heard, and held in a safe, non-judgmental space full of healing and alignment. I work to help my clients embrace their unique character and let it shine for all to see.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Academic Issues
  • Addictions
  • ADHD Testing
  • Adjustment Issues
  • Anxiety
  • Chronic Illness
  • Communication Skills
  • Couples
  • Depression
  • Existential Crisis
  • Existential Issues
  • Family Dynamics
  • Fear of Failure
  • Gaslighting
  • Grief
  • Loneliness
  • Migraines
  • Mood Disorders
  • Parenting
  • Perfectionism
  • Performance
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Relationships
  • Substance Use
  • Test/Performance Anxiety
  • Trauma
  • Work Stress
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Laura Geftman
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navigate your distress and celebrate your successes so that you can feel confident and comfortable in being you. You will become more aware of your core beliefs and better understand your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.


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Together, we will:

navigate your distress and celebrate your successes so that you can feel confident and comfortable in being you. You will become more aware of your core beliefs and better understand your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

Something to know about my approach is:

I will strive to make you feel seen, heard, understood, and inspired to positively impact your mood, functioning, and interpersonal relationships and connect with yourself, others, and the world around you.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Addictions
  • Addictive Behaviors
  • Adjustment Issues
  • Adult Children of Alcoholics
  • Adulting
  • Adults
  • Affair Recovery
  • Affairs and Cheating
  • Age 20s & 30s
  • Alcohol
  • Alternative Relationships
  • Anxiety
  • Anxiety in Relationships
  • Attachment Issues
  • Bisexuality
  • Boundaries
  • Breakups
  • Burnout
  • Cannabis
  • Career
  • Career Burnout
  • Career Change
  • Change
  • Children of Parents With Substance Use Disorders
  • Communication Skills
  • Confidence
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Coping Skills
  • Corporate Leaders
  • Dating and Romance
  • Depression
  • Divorce and Separation
  • Drug Use
  • Emerging Adults
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Emotional Intimacy
  • Entrepreneurial Women
  • Ethical Non-Monogamy
  • Failure to Launch
  • Gay
  • Gender Identity
  • Graduate Students
  • Graduating
  • Healing From Relationships
  • Healthcare Professionals
  • High-Achieving
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Infidelity
  • Intimacy
  • Job Stress
  • Leaving Home
  • Lesbian
  • LGBTQ+
  • LGBTQ Family Development
  • Life Balance
  • Life Skills
  • Life Transitions
  • Marriage
  • Medical Marijuana Assessments
  • Middle Age
  • Millenials
  • Mood Regulation
  • Mood Swings
  • New Job Transition
  • Open Relationships
  • Polyamory
  • Procrastination
  • Professional Women
  • Recovery
  • Relationships
  • Rumination
  • Sadness
  • Self-Actualization
  • Self-Awareness
  • Self-Esteem
  • Self-Regulation
  • Self-Worth
  • Separation
  • Sexual Orientation
  • Shame
  • Social Anxiety
  • Social Isolation
  • Social Skills
  • Starting a Business
  • Starting College
  • Stress
  • Substance Use
  • Suicidal Ideation
  • Trauma
  • Vaping
  • Withdrawal
  • Women’s Health
  • Workaholics
  • Working Professionals
  • Work-Life Balance
  • Workplace Issues
  • Young Adults
  • Young Professionals
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Raymond Annable
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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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Picture of Raymond Annable, mental health therapist 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 C...
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Together, we will:

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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Raymond Annable 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, No...