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The Chronic Illness Therapist

- Coaching Services: monthly memberships for folks with chronic health conditions
- Counseling Services: Therapy Intensives for residents of GA, FL, and CO

10/30/2025

Your pain isn’t “all in your head.” Your nervous system is real. Your protective patterns are real. The tension your body holds is real.

What you need isn’t someone who has it all figured out, you need someone who gets that chronic pain is messy, complex, and deeply personal.

You need a clinician who understands the biopsychosocial model isn’t just buzzwords. Someone who sees your body isn’t broken, it’s adaptive and trying to protect you.

This might sound too simple, but the right support doesn’t try to convince you out of your experience. It helps you understand what’s actually happening in your nervous system so you can work WITH your body, not against it.

You deserve practitioners who can hold space for the complexity of what you’re going through. Not ones who make you feel like you’re failing when their approach doesn’t work.

Drop a 💯 if you’ve felt gaslit by content that told you to just change your thoughts or do this 5 simple steps to getting over your XYZ.

Not medical advice—just one chronically ill counselor sharing what I’ve learned about finding the right support.

10/24/2025

**Financial Wellness for Managing a Chronic Illness**
*A workshop for anyone navigating the financial complexities of chronic health conditions*

If you’re living with chronic pain or illness

or if you’re a therapist supporting clients who are… we need to talk about FINANCIAL REALITY.

The financial stress of chronic illness is constant and communicating loudly. Medical bills, insurance battles, lost work hours, expensive treatments not covered by insurance, the cost of mobility aids, specialized foods, and medications that pile up month after month. Every financial decision becomes weighted with questions about your health and survival.

Most of us weren’t prepared for the intersection of chronic illness and financial strain. We might understand budgeting or healthcare individually, but not how grief, medical trauma, and ongoing financial anxiety collide to create overwhelming stress.

The standard financial advice that works for others often doesn’t fit chronic illness realities.

I’m hosting a workshop tomorrow on **Financial Wellness for Managing a Chronic Illness**

open to anyone in the community who needs these tools, including therapists who want to better support their chronic illness clients.

Real talk, real tools, real strategies for navigating:

- Insurance advocacy and appeals
- Managing medical debt
- Planning for income variability
- Accessing financial assistance programs
- Setting boundaries around health spending
- Communicating financial needs to providers and loved ones

**For therapists attending**: You’ll gain practical knowledge to help your chronic illness clients address financial stress as part of their overall wellbeing.

DM me **WORKSHOP** if you’d like details about what to expect and how to register for tomorrow’s session.

09/23/2025

Your body might be feeling the collective stress even when you’re “not watching the news.” (Read more👇)

I’m Destiny, a therapist living with chronic illness, and I do a lot of work to help people see and manage their stress loads.

I see this pattern constantly - people trying to protect their mental health by completely shutting off from current events, but still feeling unexplained fatigue, irritability, and that underlying sense of unease.

We’re wired for social connection and awareness. Complete news avoidance might feel safer short-term, but it can actually increase anxiety because your nervous system knows something’s happening - you’re just not getting the information it needs to process.

Sometimes the healthiest choice isn’t complete avoidance, rather it’s intentional, boundaried engagement with what’s happening in our world.

Your nervous system is trying to stay informed to keep you safe. That makes perfect sense given how we’re designed as social beings.

Try this: Choose 2-3 trusted news sources. Check in once or twice daily or weekly, not hourly.

Turn off push notifications- immediately.

The moment you hear the same story for the third time, step away - that’s when the news cycle becomes more harmful than helpful.

Being specific about what you’re feeling (election anxiety, climate grief, social justice fatigue) helps you ask for the exact support you need, rather than just feeling generally “off.”

Your body isn’t wrong, it’s normal, for responding to collective stress.

What helps you stay informed without overwhelming your nervous system? You’re not alone in figuring this out. 👇

Not medical advice - just one chronically ill counselor sharing what I’ve learned about the mind-body connection

09/18/2025

Next Saturday: Workshop on how your home environment can support nervous system regulation for chronic illness.

I’m bringing you Giovanna Akins, LPC - she works with something I find so important: how the spaces we live in can either support or strain our bodies’ ability to manage symptoms.

Think about it - if you’re already using so much energy to manage symptoms, why not have your home working for you instead of against you?

Giovanna will walk us through research-backed ways to modify your living space that can actually impact things like cortisol levels, sleep quality, and pain perception. We’re talking practical stuff - not expensive renovations or picture-perfect Pinterest boards.

The focus is on what works when you have limited energy, mobility considerations, sensory sensitivities, or a tight budget.

Because real life isn’t Instagram, and your solutions shouldn’t have to be either.

If you’ve ever felt like your space adds to your stress instead of relieving it, this one’s for you.

Details in the carousel above, DM me “environment” for the link or registration link in bio. Let me know if you have questions - always happy to chat about what might be helpful for our community.

05/10/2025

We often present strength to the world, especially when living with chronic illness. But real, healthy strength isn’t about never breaking—it’s about allowing space for weakness, for softness, for being human. Those things can coexist. And when they do, that’s where real resilience lives.

Full episode out now on Apple and Spotify! Search "Chronic Illness Therapists Podcast"

05/08/2025

There’s an emotional complexity that comes with chronic illness: you long to be seen and understood, yet you’d never wish your experience on anyone. It's a dynamic that so many of us navigate—craving connection, yet protecting others from our pain. And that contradiction? It's deeply human.

Full episode out now on Apple and Spotify! Search "Chronic Illness Therapists Podcast"

05/07/2025

Give yourself grace. You’re doing the best you can with what you have. Healing isn’t linear, and growth doesn’t come from guilt—it comes from choosing differently as you learn more.

Full episode out now on Apple and Spotify!

05/06/2025

Living with chronic illness means facing moments when your mind is ready but your body says no. In those moments, connection with others who truly get it—who’ve felt that same frustration and pain—can be the most healing support. There’s nothing like the empathy of someone who’s been there.

Full episode out now on Apple and Spotify!

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1249 Hartford Avenue SW
Atlanta, GA
30310

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+14049053391

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http://www.thechronicillnesstherapist.com/

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