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Your body isn't a problem you need to solve

Individual therapy for adults living with chronic illness — POTS, EDS, fibromyalgia — especially when it overlaps with autism or ADHD.

Living with a chronic illness means managing a body that doesn't always cooperate, appointments that don't always lead anywhere, and the quiet exhaustion of explaining yourself to providers who may not fully understand what you're dealing with. If you've spent years being told your symptoms are "probably just stress," or you've had to become your own advocate just to get taken seriously, that history shapes more than your physical health — it shapes how safe you feel asking for help at all. This is a space to be believed first.

Living with POTS, EDS, or fibromyalgia

These conditions share a lot in common — chronic pain, unpredictable fatigue, a nervous system that doesn't regulate the way it's supposed to — and they're often misdiagnosed, dismissed, or diagnosed only after years of pushing for answers. Therapy isn't a substitute for the medical care you're already managing, but it is a place to process what that journey has cost you: the grief of a body that changed, the anger of not being believed, and the ongoing work of pacing a life around a condition that doesn't follow a predictable pattern.

When chronic illness and neurodivergence overlap

POTS, EDS, and fibromyalgia show up alongside autism and ADHD more often than most people realize, and living at that intersection has its own particular weight. You may be managing sensory sensitivities on top of physical symptoms, masking exhaustion in more ways than one, or trying to get providers to take both parts of your experience seriously at once. If this is your experience, you don't have to untangle which part is "the real problem" before we start — we can work with the whole picture.

What this work looks like

This is mental health therapy, not physical or occupational therapy — I'm not treating your symptoms directly, I'm working with what it's like to live inside them. Together we'll process medical trauma and the toll of not being believed, build pacing strategies that respect your actual capacity rather than an idealized one, and make space for grief, anger, and identity shifts that chronic illness brings up. The goal isn't to help you push through — it's to help you build a life that works with your body instead of against it.

You deserve care that believes you.

If any of this sounds familiar, I'd be glad to talk it through with you.

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