Living with illness- or a loved one’s illness- as a young adult can feel incredibly lonely, but you don’t have to navigate it alone. Whether you're in school, starting your career, building a family, or exploring your identity - a chronic illness, cancer, or other medical diagnosis is disruptive to a time of life meant for growth, independence, and self-discovery. Young adults navigating illness experience a unique set of challenges due to your age and time in life. This is where I come in, to support you in the changes and challenges of growing up, navigating the unknown, and developing your sense of self.

SUPPORT FOR:

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

• 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.