Therapy for chronic illness, bad days included.

Living with a chronic illness is a second job nobody applied for. Appointments, insurance calls, rationing energy, explaining yourself to people who think you look fine. Then there's the part nobody schedules time for: grieving the life you thought you'd have.

Therapy won't tell you to think positive. It's a place to be honest about how hard this is, and to work on what's in reach: the anxiety before the next flare, the guilt of canceling plans again, the relationships that changed when your health did.

Paced for your body, too.

Chronic illness keeps the nervous system on alert, and an alert nervous system tends to make everything harder. Some sessions focus on settling it, drawing on polyvagal theory. Others go after what a hospital stay or a dismissive doctor left behind, sometimes with Brainspotting or EMDR. When the losses pile up, grief work is part of it too.

Who you'd work with

Cameron Bice, LPCC has worked extensively with chronic illness, and sees teens 15 and up and adults online, anywhere in Colorado. Sessions are $120 with a sliding scale, and insurance and Medicaid details are on the rates page.