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Therapy Services

Telehealth Therapy for Adults

I provide individual therapy for adults navigating chronic illness, disability, medical trauma, anxiety, depression, grief, identity shifts, and the emotional complexity of living in a body that doesn’t always cooperate. My work is grounded in lived experience, clinical training, and a disability‑affirming, trauma‑informed lens.

 

You don’t have to mask, minimize, or prove your pain here. You get to show up exactly as you are — flaring, foggy, overwhelmed, hopeful, grieving, angry, or exhausted — and we build from there.

Marah seated with a laptop and holding a coffee cup while offering telehealth support

What We Can Work on Together

Chronic Illness, Chronic Pain, & Disability

  • Navigating dynamic disability and fluctuating symptoms

  • Coping with medical trauma, invalidation, and gaslighting

  • Pacing, energy management, and emotional regulation

  • Rebuilding identity after diagnosis or functional loss

  • Advocacy skills for medical appointments, work, and relationships

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Anxiety, Depression & Emotional Distress

  • Chronic stress and burnout

  • Panic, fear, and overwhelm

  • Depressive episodes, hopelessness, and emotional fatigue

  • Shame, self‑criticism, and internalized ableism

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Grief & Loss

  • Grieving a former life, identity, or level of functioning

  • Anticipatory grief

  • Ambiguous loss

  • Grief around relationships, roles, and dreams that shifted

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Relationship Issues Related to Chronic Illness

  • Shifting roles and emotional labor

  • Communication breakdowns and resentment

  • Intimacy changes

  • Feeling misunderstood, unsupported, or alone

  • Rebuilding connection and trust

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Trauma

  • Distressing memories

  • Fear of medical settings

  • Phobias 

  • Trauma stored in the body

  • Complex trauma

How I Structure Sessions

My work is person‑centered, collaborative, and flexible. You set the goals, and we shape sessions around what you need that day. Healing isn’t linear — and your therapy shouldn’t be either.

 

Examples of What This Can Look Like:

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  • Advocacy & Communication Practice

Role‑playing conversations, building scripts, and practicing assertiveness skills for medical appointments, work, or relationships.

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  • Executive Dysfunction Support

Using part of our session for case management — organizing appointments, making calls, breaking tasks into steps, or creating systems that work with your energy and capacity.

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  • Trauma Work with ART

When you’re ready, we can use Accelerated Resolution Therapy to process trauma, phobias, distressing memories, and difficult‑to‑shift behaviors.Phobia Reduction ART can be especially helpful for needle phobia and other medical‑related fears.

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  • Parts Work 

Exploring internal conflicts, emotional stuck points, and the different parts of you that are trying to cope.

 

  • Grief Work

Making space for the tenderness, anger, numbness, and meaning‑making that grief requires.

Fees & Insurance

  • Private pay rate: $175

  • Insurances accepted: 

    • Aetna

    • ConnectiCare

    • HUSKY Health

    • Medicaid

    • Medicare

    • Optum

    • UnitedHealthcare UHC UBH

  • Superbills available for out‑of‑network reimbursement

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