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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 Waco, the suburbs of Waco, other nearby places such as Killeen, Georgetown, or anywhere else in Texas, 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  • You are withdrawn or apathetic about relationships that used to matter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 your life's struggles and prioritize your needs. We will work on developing a plan that will move you along your healing journey. Clients will learn how to cope, resolve conflict, and process their thoughts and feelings.


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Together we will explore your life's struggles and prioritize your needs. We will work on developing a plan that will move you along your healing journey. Clients will learn how to cope, resolve conflict, and process their thoughts and feelings.

Something to know about my approach is:

My approach is eclectic in nature and is specifically tailored to your needs. I mainly use techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and occasionally adapt other techniques my clients may benefit from. Therapy goals are centered around you.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Adolescent Anxiety
  • Adult ADHD
  • Anxiety Management
  • Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  • Cancer
  • Child or Adolescent Therapy
  • Children
  • Children With Parents Diagnosed or Passed From Cancer
  • Chronic Stress
  • Depression
  • Divorce and Separation
  • Empowering Women
  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  • Grief
  • Health Anxiety
  • High-Functioning Anxiety
  • High-Functioning Depression
  • Job Stress
  • Mild Depression
  • Parenting Children With ADHD
  • Parenting Skills
  • Pre-Teens
  • Teen Depression
  • Test/Performance Anxiety
  • Young Women
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Together, we can address problems involving sleep, psychological trauma, anxiety, and depression. My 24+ years of practice give me an excellent grounding for accurate diagnosis and effective treatment of a wide range of psychological conditions.


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Together, we can address problems involving sleep, psychological trauma, anxiety, and depression. My 24+ years of practice give me an excellent grounding for accurate diagnosis and effective treatment of a wide range of psychological conditions.

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I collaborate closely with you to set goals, choose evidence-based approaches, answer questions, and track progress. I will always personalize your treatment to best meet your needs while staying flexible to adapt whenever necessary or required.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Abusive Relationships
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Childhood Abuse or Neglect
  • Complex PTSD (C-PTSD)
  • Depression
  • Insomnia and Sleep Problems
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Trauma From Abuse
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Feeling alone? Confused with how you got here, or even where to go from here? Frustrated with not feeling authentic? Or maybe you’re stuck in the same pattern. Together, we will work to make intentional and sustainable changes.


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Feeling alone? Confused with how you got here, or even where to go from here? Frustrated with not feeling authentic? Or maybe you’re stuck in the same pattern. Together, we will work to make intentional and sustainable changes.

Something to know about my approach is:

I pull from a myriad of therapeutic techniques that aim to empower and ground. I have extensive experience with college and graduate students, young adults, LGBTQ+ folx, and those who are navigating their various identities and life transitions.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Adjustment Issues
  • Adult ADHD
  • Anxiety
  • Bisexuality
  • Career
  • Career Burnout
  • Career Counseling
  • Coping Skills
  • Cultural Adjustment
  • Depression
  • Divorce and Separation
  • Domestic Violence
  • Ethical Non-Monogamy
  • Family Conflict
  • Gay
  • Gender Affirmative Surgery Letters
  • Gender Dysphoria
  • Gender Identity
  • Gender Transition
  • Insomnia and Sleep Problems
  • Job Stress
  • Kink
  • Lesbian
  • LGBTQ+
  • Life Transitions
  • Men
  • Nonbinary Gender Identity
  • Open Relationships
  • Queer
  • Racial Justice
  • Sex Workers
  • Transgender
  • Veterans/Military Families
  • Women
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Barrosha Boykin
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Together we will sort out the root of the issue so that you will be prepared to handle it if the problem ever comes up again. We will work together to establish and reach goals for your relationship, your life, and prepare you for the future.


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Together, we will:

Together we will sort out the root of the issue so that you will be prepared to handle it if the problem ever comes up again. We will work together to establish and reach goals for your relationship, your life, and prepare you for the future.

Something to know about my approach is:

You will experience compassion and no judgement. You will face challenging questions that will make you think from a different perspective that will help you evolve.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Alcohol
  • Anger Management
  • Anxiety
  • Career Counseling
  • Children
  • Coaching
  • Codependency
  • Confidence
  • Coping Skills
  • Cutting
  • Depression
  • Domestic Violence
  • Drug Use
  • Emotional Disturbance
  • Family Conflict
  • Friendships
  • Grief
  • Hoarding
  • Infidelity
  • Insomnia and Sleep Problems
  • Life Transitions
  • Men
  • Obesity
  • Racial or Ethnic Identity
  • Relationship Conflict
  • Self-Esteem
  • Self-Harm
  • Spirituality
  • Stress
  • Substance Use
  • Suicidal Ideation
  • Women
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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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Together, we will:

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.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Chronic Disease
  • Chronic Illness
  • Chronic Pain
  • Health Anxiety
  • Insomnia and Sleep Problems
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Jennifer Steiner 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, N...