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Chronic illnesses not only affect your physical health, but they can also be harmful for your mental health. Many sufferers of chronic illnesses, like Diabetes, Lupus, chronic pain, or Crohn’s Disease end up with mental disorders ranging from anxiety to depression, which can make life harder.

Luckily, Mental Health Match can match you with a chronic illness therapist who can help you manage the stress, fear, and angst surrounding your diagnosis. Whether you are located in downtown Pharr, the suburbs of Pharr, other nearby places such as Mission, Harlingen, or anywhere else in Texas, Mental Health Match can help you easily find an experienced therapist or counselor who best meets your needs.

Signs You May Need Chronic Illness Counseling

If you’re not sure whether you need chronic illness counseling, we can help. Here are some signs that indicate that you should consider therapy:

  • You feel stressed out about the diagnosis and your future.
  • You have feelings of anxiety and sadness.
  • You have trouble concentrating throughout the day.
  • You are withdrawn or apathetic about relationships that used to matter
  • You don’t sleep well.

Read this article for tips about living with a chronic illness from a licensed therapist.

Feel Better with Chronic Illness Counseling

Now is the best time to seek treatment for a chronic illness or diagnosis. Mental Health Match can help you get started by connecting you with the most suitable therapist for your needs. Browse below or use our free therapist matching tool.

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Mallory Striesfeld
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Explore the patterns that are holding us back from moving forward in our romantic relationships, our jobs, and our friendships. We will work together to identify the patterns, process them and offer tools to create a new, exciting path forward!


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Explore the patterns that are holding us back from moving forward in our romantic relationships, our jobs, and our friendships. We will work together to identify the patterns, process them and offer tools to create a new, exciting path forward!

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At Healing Pathways of Houston, we are dynamic team of therapists who meet you where you're at in therapy. We collaborate with each of you to create a plan just for you and/or your loved one(s), even if it means thinking "outside the box" at times.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Adolescent Anxiety
  • Adult Child of Emotionally Immature Parents
  • Alternative Relationships
  • Anxiety in Relationships
  • Childhood Trauma
  • Child or Adolescent Therapy
  • Children With Chronic Illness
  • Children With Parents Diagnosed or Passed From Cancer
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  • Emerging Adults
  • Endometriosis
  • Faith Transition
  • Family Conflict
  • Financial Stress
  • First Responders
  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  • Grief from Losing a Pet
  • Healing From Relationships
  • Health Anxiety
  • Healthcare Professionals
  • Interfaith Relationships
  • LGBTQ+
  • LGBTQ+ Children
  • Mother-Daughter Relationships
  • New Job Transition
  • Parent-Adult Child Relationship
  • Parent-Child Relationship
  • Parenting Children with Anxiety
  • Political Anxiety
  • Polyamory
  • Postpartum Anxiety
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Pre-Teens
  • Relationship Skills
  • Sibling Relationships
  • Teen Anxiety
  • Teen Depression
  • Teen Girls
  • Teen Trauma
  • Therapist for Other Therapists
  • Work Stress
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Dr. Tania Alaby-Varma
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Attain the personal growth and goals which you are seeking by exploring, understanding, and transforming patterns that no longer serve you. We will also gain insight into the way you relate to yourself, others and the world around you.


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Attain the personal growth and goals which you are seeking by exploring, understanding, and transforming patterns that no longer serve you. We will also gain insight into the way you relate to yourself, others and the world around you.

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I received specialized training in various evidence-based treatment modalities including Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and ADHD assessment and treatment.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Adjustment Issues
  • Adult ADHD
  • Alcohol
  • Anger Management
  • Anxiety
  • Assessments
  • Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  • Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs)
  • Body Image
  • Communication Skills
  • Confidence
  • Couples
  • Depression
  • Disordered Eating
  • Eating Disorders
  • Fears and Phobias
  • Food and Eating Concerns
  • Grief
  • Healthcare Professionals
  • Insomnia and Sleep Problems
  • Life Transitions
  • Obesity
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Perfectionism
  • Relationship Distress
  • Self-Compassion
  • Self-Esteem
  • Self-Regulation
  • Social Media Use
  • Test/Performance Anxiety
  • Trauma
  • Women
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Crisanta Searway, LPC Associate
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Discuss various themes, guided by the principles of the American Counseling Association. I uphold ethical standards, ensuring the best care. Using a person-centered approach, I foster a safe space for clients to express their thoughts and emotions.


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Discuss various themes, guided by the principles of the American Counseling Association. I uphold ethical standards, ensuring the best care. Using a person-centered approach, I foster a safe space for clients to express their thoughts and emotions.

Something to know about my approach is:

My approach to counseling focuses on the individual's unique needs and goals. I aim to provide a supportive, safe, non-judgmental space to explore your thoughts and feelings, learn new skills, and better understand yourself and your situation.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Academic Issues
  • Acute Grief
  • Acute Stress
  • ADHD Testing
  • Adolescent Anxiety
  • Adolescents
  • Adolescent Trauma
  • Adult ADHD
  • Adults
  • Anticipatory Grief
  • Anxiety
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Anxiety in Relationships
  • Anxiety Management
  • Assessments for Children
  • Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  • Autism in Adults
  • Autism in Womxn or Femme Populations
  • Autism-Related Challenges
  • Autism Spectrum
  • Autism Testing
  • Childhood Trauma
  • Child or Adolescent Therapy
  • Children
  • Children With Chronic Illness
  • Chronic Illness
  • Chronic Stress
  • Complicated Grief
  • Concussion/Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Coping Skills
  • Dyslexia
  • Education
  • Emotional Disturbance
  • Emotional Regulation
  • Families with Autism-related challenges
  • Geriatric
  • Grief
  • Health Anxiety
  • High Anxiety
  • Illness Anxiety Disorder
  • Intellectual Development Disorder (IDD)
  • Intellectual Disabilities
  • Job Stress
  • Learning Disabilities
  • Mental Disorders
  • Military Life Transition
  • Military Service
  • New Parent
  • Parent-Adult Child Relationship
  • Parenting
  • Parenting Children With ADHD
  • Parenting Children with Anxiety
  • Parenting Children With Autism
  • Parenting Skills
  • Parenting Special Needs Children
  • Personal Growth
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Pre-Teens
  • Relationship Conflict
  • Relationship Distress
  • Relationships
  • Relationship Skills
  • Relationship Trauma
  • School Issues
  • Self-Esteem
  • Senior Citizens
  • Situational Grief
  • Situational Stress
  • Social Anxiety
  • Social-Emotional Learning
  • Stress
  • Stress-Related Disorders
  • Teen Anxiety
  • Teen Boys
  • Teen Girls
  • Teen Parents
  • Teen Trauma
  • Teen Violence
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  • Veterans/Military Families
  • War Trauma
  • Women Veterans
  • Work Stress
  • Young Adults
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Ranya Kamel
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be focusing on symptoms relief but also why your symptoms exist in the first place. Your emotions and experiences have context and meaning. Together, we'll work to uncover what that meaning is and what your feelings are trying to tell you.


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be focusing on symptoms relief but also why your symptoms exist in the first place. Your emotions and experiences have context and meaning. Together, we'll work to uncover what that meaning is and what your feelings are trying to tell you.

Something to know about my approach is:

We'll get to the root of your distress by identifying both external factors and what's going on beneath the surface that's contributing to your symptoms. Insight gives us a starting point; after all, you can't address something you don't understand.

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  • Anxiety
  • Boundaries
  • Chronic Pain
  • Depression
  • Emotional Regulation
  • Family Conflict
  • Identity
  • Personality Disorders
  • Psychosomatic Issues
  • Religious Identity
  • Religious Trauma
  • Self-Understanding
  • Stress
  • Women’s Health
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Leslie Boyett
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work to help you heal from past traumas, build resiliency to deal with change and loss, and move forward into a future filled with hope and new possibilities.


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work to help you heal from past traumas, build resiliency to deal with change and loss, and move forward into a future filled with hope and new possibilities.

Something to know about my approach is:

I use a direct, reality-based approach that holds you accountable for change. If you are willing to challenge your thinking and embrace change, you will build the resiliency that you need in order to face difficult life circumstances.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Borderline Personality
  • Cancer
  • Chronic Illness
  • Chronic Pain
  • Concussion/Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
  • Grief
  • Nutrition
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Spirituality
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Leslie Boyett remote and phone therapy in Louisiana, Texas