Chronic Illness, POTS, Chronic Pain & Cancer Therapy

I provide therapy for individuals living with chronic illness, POTS, chronic pain, and cancer because these are areas where I bring focused knowledge, skill, and a deep understanding of how complex medical experiences impact mental and emotional health. This understanding is rooted in professional training, specialized clinical experience in medical & oncology settings, and personal lived experience.

Living with a medical condition affects more than the body. It can change your sense of safety, identity, relationships, and how you relate to yourself and your future. Many people carry grief, fear, exhaustion, and the pressure to keep functioning while feeling overwhelmed inside. Therapy creates space to slow down, feel understood, and be supported without having to minimize your experience.

This work goes beyond coping with symptoms. It’s about honouring what your body has been through and supporting the emotional and psychological layers that often get overlooked in medical care.

My approach is trauma-informed, integrative, and grounded in respect for the complexity of medical and chronic health experiences. I work collaboratively and gently, recognizing that your story, your pace, and your capacity matter. This is a space where your full experience is seen and supported.

Chronic Illness Therapy

Chronic illness can reshape daily life, independence, and identity. The unpredictability of symptoms and limitations can create emotional strain and ongoing stress.

Chronic illness therapy can support you in:

• Processing grief related to changes in health or ability

• Coping with uncertainty and lack of control

• Rebuilding a sense of identity and self-trust

• Reducing emotional isolation and overwhelm

• Learning to honor your limits without guilt

• Creating meaning and stability in a changing body

POTS Support

Living with POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome) can feel especially destabilizing. Symptoms such as dizziness, fatigue, heart racing, brain fog, and nervous system sensitivity can impact emotional safety and daily functioning. Many people with POTS have also experienced medical invalidation or dismissal.

Therapy for POTS focuses on:

• Supporting nervous system regulation

• Managing anxiety related to physical symptoms

• Processing medical trauma or healthcare stress

• Rebuilding confidence and trust in your body

• Developing pacing and self-compassion

• Reducing fear around symptom flare-ups

This is a space where your symptoms are believed and your experience is respected.

Chronic Pain Therapy

Chronic pain can be physically and emotionally exhausting. Living with ongoing discomfort or limitation can create frustration, grief, fear, and a sense of disconnection from your body.

Chronic pain therapy can support you in:

• Processing emotional responses to long-term pain

• Reducing fear and tension held in the nervous system

• Developing coping strategies for daily functioning

• Rebuilding a compassionate relationship with your body

• Navigating identity changes caused by pain or disability

• Strengthening emotional resilience

Pain does not need to be visible to be real. Your experience is valid.

Cancer Support Therapy

A cancer diagnosis and treatment journey can profoundly affect how you view your body, safety, relationships, and future. Whether you are newly diagnosed, undergoing treatment, in remission, or living with long-term effects, therapy offers grounding, stability, and emotional care.

Cancer support therapy can help with:

• Processing fear, grief, and uncertainty

• Navigating identity changes and vulnerability

• Coping with treatment-related stress and fatigue

• Supporting emotional regulation during medical care

• Making meaning after diagnosis or survival

• Reconnecting with hope and self-compassion

My background as a former cancer nurse in palliative care and hospice settings deeply shapes how I hold this work, with presence, sensitivity, and respect for how sacred and personal this experience can be.

A Gentle, Integrative Approach

I work from an integrative, trauma-informed lens, drawing from cognitive, emotion-focused, compassion-based, and nervous system-informed approaches. When helpful, EMDR may be gently incorporated to support medical trauma or emotionally “stuck” experiences, always guided by your safety and readiness.

Chronic health therapy is not about fixing your body. It is about supporting your emotional world, strengthening resilience, and helping you live with greater self-trust and compassion.

At Glow Mental Health, this is a space where your pain is validated, your story is honored, and your healing is allowed to unfold at your own pace.