What I Wish Your Therapist Knew About Chronic Ilness
An easy-to-read and actionable guide that bridges lived experience and clinical care.
For people living with chronic illness, and the therapists and coaches who support them.
Too many people living with chronic illness leave therapy feeling confused, dismissed, or subtly blamed for their symptoms. And too many providers who truly care about their clients were never taught how to do better.
The issue is rarely bad intentions. The issue is a gap in understanding of the chronic illness experience and how that experience interacts with clinical care.
That’s why What I Wish Your Therapist Knew… exists.
To puts words to experiences that are hard to explain, but vital to understand.
Who is this guide for?
People with chronic conditions who have wondered why they don’t feel supported in therapy and want language to describe their experiences
Individuals learning to trust their perceptions, emotions, and reactions and advocate for their needs while seeking care
Therapists and coaches committed to creating supportive and healing environments for clients navigating chronic illness and chronic pain
People with chronic conditions:
This guide provides a validating framework to heal from therapeutic (or other) experiences that have felt dismissive and harmful. It also offers clarity and language to support you in advocating confidently for your needs. The guide sets you up to minimize the likelihood of the deep pain of dismissal in the future.
Therapists & coaches:
If you support people with chronic illness (and most of you will at some point), this guide helps you offer deeper understanding and emotional safety right away. Without a long and expensive training, the guide bridges a gap in your clinical training. Small, informed shifts can make a meaningful difference.
What’s included in “What I Wish Your Therapist Knew About Chronic Illness”?
WIWYTKACI blends clinical insight, lived experience, and practical tools to help you (or your clients) feel more supported, validated, and empowered. Written from my experience on both sides of the therapy room, and as a coach.
Here’s what you’ll find inside:
Into + My story and why I created the guide
Part 1:
16 Things I Wish Your Therapist Knew About Chronic Illness
Insights that both therapists and clients may have never had reflected to them about what having a chronic illness means for support.
Part 2:
15 Treatment, Coaching, and Progress Goals
A concrete look at what “progress” is worth measuring in therapy when living with chronic illness (hint it’s not symptom improvement)
Part 3:
Questions to Ask a Therapist or Coach Before Working Together
Because you’re allowed to be an informed consumer of your care!
BONUS GUIDE: Templates and conversation guides for both clients and therapists/coaches for discussing chronic conditions. Examples include:
An email template for writing to your therapist when you’re in a flare
A conversation guide for bringing up accommodations
Discussion template for therapists to create Flare Day Contingency Plans with clients
Email template for therapists/coaches enforcing a boundary with a client
Read what the community has to say:
Start supporting yourself, and others, with chronic illness today.
I want this guide to be useful for you! If you purchase and don’t find that it was helpful, I will Venmo you the money back, no questions asked :) Though I do thoroughly stand by the guide and trust it will benefit you.
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