Therapy and Group for Chronic Health Conditions
Does your chronic health condition leave you feeling exhausted and depleted? Do you feel left out when you can’t partake in common, daily activities? Do you often feel isolated, yet also feel the need to hide your condition from others?
A person’s well-being is reliant not just on their physical condition, but also on their mental health. While you may be struggling right now physically, please understand that you can thrive mentally and emotionally, despite your illness.
Life is Complex
A chronic health condition is never something we plan for. But one day we get a diagnosis from our healthcare provider, and suddenly, our world, and the world of our loved ones, is turned upside down.
Things we were once able to do, we may no longer be able to. Plans we once made, we may no longer be able to keep. Our positive emotions are often replaced by negative ones like fear, stress, anger, shame, and low self-worth.
While everyone experiences negative emotions from time to time, chronic negative emotions can make it that much harder for us to physically cope with our illness or find any joy in life.
Turning Pain into Strength
Therapy is a powerful way to face the challenges and subsequent negative emotions you are dealing with. By feeling our negative emotions, instead of stuffing them down inside of us, we can often turn our pain into unimaginable strength.
I specialize in helping people dealing with chronic health condition navigate their inner world so they can not only survive their psychological and emotional challenges but thrive because of them.
Using practical solutions-focused therapy, I offer tangible results that can help you transform your life. Together, we will identify your feelings, attitudes, and limiting beliefs surrounding your chronic health condition, understand the origins of any damaging thought patterns, and create new positive mental and emotional habits.
If you’d like to speak to someone and learn practical strategies to help you live your life to the fullest, please reach out to me. I offer a free 10-15 minute consultation to help us determine if my approach aligns with your needs.
Group for Chronic Health Conditions: A Light in the Storm
Are you having a difficult time navigating the isolation, stress, and life changes associated with having a chronic health condition?
Are you looking for ways to cope better, connect with others and live your best life while managing a chronic health condition?
The Coping with Chronic Health Condition Support and Empowerment Group: “A Light in the Storm”, is here to support you. This group is led by Dr. Jeana Griffith, a licensed clinical psychologist. This group meets weekly for nine sessions on a secure virtual platform. It is for people who have a chronic health condition such as Lupus, Diabetes, Arthritis, or Fibromyalgia. This group offers support in understanding how a chronic health condition impacts important areas of your life, while exploring ways to thrive and live well with your condition. It offers a space to share, learn, and practice with others who are coping with similar issues.
Some topics covered include:
- Exploring the Impact of Your Illness on Daily Living and Ways to Cope
- Navigating (Naming) the Emotions and Challenges to Your Identity
- Mourning the Loss of the Former Healthy Self (mourning the absence of the person you once were)
- Empowering Yourself Through Health Condition Education
- Pain Management/the Power of Thoughts, Meditation, Prayer, Nutrition, and Exercise
- Goal Setter/Goal Getter: Focus and Flourish: Getting Things Done When You Don’t Feel Like Doing
- Building Social Networks and Emergency Planning
- Strengthening Family Relationships and Resilience Through Effective Communication and Creative Planning.
Group Cost: $45 per session (9 sessions). No insurance accepted.
Meets: Virtually Thursdays from 3:30-5 p.m. on a secure virtual platform.
Start Date: TBA
If you would like to connect with others, learn effective ways to cope and live your best life with a health condition, then fill out the form to schedule a FREE pre-group intake interview