Living with a chronic illness is a full-body, full-life experience. You might be juggling symptoms, doctor visits, and exhaustion—while also managing the emotional weight of grief, frustration, and feeling misunderstood. Whether your illness is visible or invisible, newly diagnosed or something you’ve been living with for years, you deserve care that supports both your mind and body.

At Empower and Thrive Counseling, we provide therapy for individuals navigating chronic illness, autoimmune conditions, long COVID, fibromyalgia, and other long-term health challenges. We understand how deeply these conditions can impact identity, relationships, mental health, and your sense of control. Our goal is to help you reconnect with your body, your needs, and your self-worth—without pressure or judgment.

We use a range of supportive, evidence-informed approaches, including:

• Mindfulness to help manage anxiety, pain, and emotional overwhelm

• Somatic work to gently reconnect with your body in a safe, non-triggering way

• Narrative therapy to explore how illness shapes your story—and how to rewrite it

• Coping tools for pacing, self-advocacy, boundary-setting, and emotion regulation

• Emotional processing for grief, identity loss, fear, or frustration with medical systems

You don’t have to push through or pretend everything’s fine. Here, you can slow down, be fully seen, and start healing in ways that honor the whole of who you are.

Your body may be carrying a lot—but you don’t have to carry it alone.