Therapy for Chronic and Complex Illness

Chronic illness often affects both the body and the nervous system, creating a feedback loop between physical symptoms and emotional strain. It can blur the line between medical and psychological. The body may feel unpredictable, energy can crash without warning, and the mind struggles to keep pace. Living with ongoing symptoms often requires a constant recalibration of expectations, routines, and relationships.

Common chronic and complex conditions include long COVID, POTS, MCAS, dysautonomia, fibromyalgia, autoimmune disorders, hormone dysregulation, gut-brain disorders, migraines, endometriosis, and PCOS. These conditions frequently involve autonomic imbalance, inflammation, and heightened stress responses. They can leave people feeling isolated or dismissed by systems that fail to recognize the complexity of their experience.

Therapy offers a space to understand how chronic illness impacts regulation, mood, and identity. Together, we explore how your nervous system responds to pain, fatigue, and uncertainty, while developing tools for pacing, boundary setting, and self-advocacy. Somatic therapy helps you learn to interpret the body’s signals with curiosity rather than fear, and to cultivate small moments of ease within the ongoing reality of illness.

Our work may also include patient advocacy: clarifying goals before medical appointments, processing medical trauma, and strengthening your ability to navigate complex healthcare systems while maintaining trust in your lived experience. The goal is not to eliminate symptoms but to support you in building a relationship with your body that feels collaborative rather than adversarial.

I work with clients across New York and Connecticut through secure virtual sessions. Together, we create space for both acceptance and adaptation, supporting resilience, regulation, and a renewed sense of agency in living with chronic illness.