Therapy for Adults Navigating Medical Illness in -and the People Who Care for Them

Virtual therapy in Ontario for adults whose lives have been changed by a medical diagnosis or a chronic health condition - and for the people who love and care for them.

A diagnosis rearranges a life. There are appointments, treatments, results, and decisions -and underneath all of it, there is the emotional side: anxiety that spikes before every scan, grief for the life and the future you expected, changes in your body, your energy, your work, and your identity, and the strange loneliness of being surrounded by people who cannot quite understand.

Whether you are living with the illness or caring for someone who is, you do not have to carry the emotional side of it alone, too.

This page is for you if you are a young adult or adult who:

• has recently received a diagnosis and is still absorbing what it means

• is living with a chronic condition or chronic pain that has changed what your days look like

• is going through treatment for a medical condition, or adjusting to life after treatment

• lives with fear of recurrence - the worry that returns before every scan, test, or follow-up

• is grieving the health, plans, or version of life you expected

• feels anxious, low, or unlike yourself, and it is tangled up with your health

• is a spouse, partner, family member, or friend caring for a loved one through illness

What therapy can look like together

My approach is grounded in psychodynamic therapy - together, we look back to your early beginnings, the experiences, relationships, and messages that shaped you, to gain insight into the patterns showing up now: how you cope with uncertainty, how you ask for (or avoid) help, and what this diagnosis is stirring up underneath. From that understanding, we also build practical strategies, drawing on CBT and DBT, for scan anxiety, sleepless worry, low mood, and the day-to-day weight of living with illness or caregiving.

Therapy here is support for the emotional side of illness. It is not medical advice or treatment, and it sits alongside -never instead of -the care of your medical team.