Living with a serious illness—or supporting a loved one through one—as a young adult can feel incredibly isolating, but you don't have to face it alone. Whether you're in school, starting your career, building relationships, or discovering who you are, a diagnosis can disrupt a stage of life centered on growth, independence, and possibility.

Young adults navigating illness face unique emotional and developmental challenges. Therapy provides a space to process uncertainty, cope with change, and navigate the complexities of this season of life. While illness may be part of your story, it does not define you. Together, we'll help you reconnect with your identity, values, and the life you want to build beyond your diagnosis.

SUPPORT FOR:

• Managing anxiety, depression, guilt, fear, and helplessness

• Anxiety or OCD with specific medical phobias

• Decision-making around and challenges with school, work, and relationships

• Grieving a loss of a person, or loss of control, independence, or future plans

• Navigating medical trauma or body image changes

• Communicating needs and boundaries with friends, partners, or family

• Processing how a diagnosis is or will change your life

• Reclaiming a sense of agency, meaning, and identity

Therapeutic Approach:

There is no “one size fits all” to therapy, so I tailor my therapeutic approach based on the needs of each individual client.

• Strengths-based, mindfulness, psychosomatic therapies

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

• Existentialism

• Grief Therapy

• Person-Centered Therapy

• Family Systems Theory

• Pain Reprocessing Therapy

• Exposure and Response Prevention (as needed for OCD or specific phobias)

*In addition to cancer, I have experience in supporting children, adolescents, young adults and families experiencing chronic medical conditions such as muscular dystrophy, ALS, chronic migraines, cerebral palsy, fibromyalgia, celiac disease, diabetes, Crohn’s disease, food intolerances and unknown chronic illness.