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Health Anxiety, Illness & Pain

  • Compassionate Psychotherapy for individuals coping with medical diagnoses, chronic illness, and fears about health

    Coping with fears and preoccupation with the belief that you are ill, or could become ill in the future

    Managing reassurance-seeking behaviors that maintain and exacerbate health-related anxieties

    Therapeutic support through the shock and numbness of new medical diagnoses - including cancer, degenerative diseases and autoimmune disorders

    Developing a “new normal” in the wake of a catastrophic or chronic illness diagnosis; processing the unexpectedness, uncertainty, and overwhelming experience of illness

    Validating and normalizing the common thoughts and emotional responses that follow medical diagnoses, including existential questions, anger, guilt and posttraumatic stress

    Increasing cognitive flexibility to decrease the impact of negative thoughts that feed the pain-symptom cycle of chronic pain