Life with chronic illness is exhausting and you’re wondering if there’s hope.

Your life has dramatically changed since you received your diagnosis. There are endless amounts of doctor’s appointments, medication regimens, and you’re tired, physically, mentally, and emotionally each day.

Around you, every one else looks healthy and happy. You can’t help but wonder why you have to go through all these procedures and changes in your body and in your life. All you want to do have a normal life again.

You know your friends and family care about you, and yet it feels as if they just don’t get it. You find yourself feeling more and more isolated. You just want to be healthy again and find yourself struggling to make sense of it all. You wonder how you can balance management of your health and medical stressors while also living a rich and fulfilling life. Just when you think you’ve adjusted to it, a new development arises and you find yourself feeling lost again.

Although you’re able to get through your days and make it to the next one, you can’t help but wonder if there could be something more to life. Something deeper and richer. You want to make sense of this pain and wonder if life will ever feel normal again.

Find your path to wellbeing

Individual therapy for chronic illness in Northern Virginia, Maryland, and Washington DC

Here at Hope+Wellness, we have extensive experience helping individuals with acute and chronic illnesses, health conditions, diagnoses, and stressors, to cope with the unique, long term challenges they bring for you and your family. We recognize that chronic illnesses, chronic pain, depression, anxiety, stress, and management of demanding daily treatments are intensely draining on your and your family’s life, mood, and relationships.

People come to us for a genuine connection and healing, and to learn healthy and balanced ways of thinking and living to help them feel a sense of greater peace and purpose.

Compassionate, relatable + expert care

we are passionate about providing you with a supportive therapy space that is genuine and authentic — where you truly feel cared for. a space that is human and compassionate, where you feel deeply seen and accepted.

If you are a patient going through a time of great pain, uncertainty, stress, anxiety, and depression associated with a chronic illness or medical condition, we’re here to help you adjust and restore a sense of well being again. Our therapists have worked at leading institutions including Johns Hopkins Hospital, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Children’s National, Kaiser Permanente, INOVA, UCLA Health, and the VA Medical Centers.

Our therapists have extensive experience working with individuals with a range of chronic health conditions and stressors including

• Chronic Pain

• Functional Abdominal Pain

• Fibromyalgia

• POTS

• Cancer

• Diabetes

• Genetic conditions

• Obesity

• Gastrointestinal conditions

• Traumatic Brain Injuries

• Reproductive Challenges

• Coping and adjustment to a new diagnosis

• Navigating life as a child, teen, young adult, or adult with a chronic or acute health condition

• Improving communication with your loved ones about health-related issue

Potential benefits of therapy for chronic illness

Therapy can help you feel supported during an intensely stressful time. Here at Hope+Wellness, we will help you cope and adjust to the new changes and realities that the medical issues and diagnoses bring. What this means is that:

• Process and acknowledge any losses or grief you may feel as a result of the medical diagnoses or stressors

• Integrate your mind and body to promote greater sense of health and well being

• Get space and time to process all the changes and stressors going on

• Develop a new relationship with suffering, pain, anxiety, and stress to become stronger and wiser

• Reach out to friends and family for support and fully connect with others so you don’t feel alone

• Gain insight into barriers or unhealthy tendencies to learn healthier ways of coping

• Begin to live and actualize the life you want

• Learn how to manage feelings of depression, anxiety, and adjustment concerns

Getting started with health psychology + therapy for chronic illness

We work with kids, teens, young adults, and adults with acute or chronic medical or health-related stressors, conditions, or diagnoses.

We are passionate about offering treatments based in research that are designed and found to be effective. Treatment approaches we specialize in include cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness and acceptance based therapies, relaxation training, and stress management which are found to be effective when living with major health stressors.

It is important that you find the therapist that you resonate with. Therefore, we invite you to learn more about us, read our blog, and to read about getting started and frequently asked questions. When you are ready, you can reach out to us to ask a question or to schedule an initial consultation appointment.

Who we help

Our therapists specialize in treating individuals experiencing chronic illness along with depression, anxiety, stress and more

• Depression

• Mood Disorders

• Situational or Existential Depression

• Anxiety

• Depression and Stress

• Anxiety and Stress

• Perfectionism

• Self-Esteem

• Self-Criticism

• Acute Stress

• Stress Management

• Self-Care

• Adjustment Difficulties

• Life Transitions

• Self-Discovery and Personal Growth

• Giftedness

• Academic Stress and Pressure

• Living with a Chronic Illness

• Identity

• Struggling to Launch

• Building Interpersonal Relationships

• Discovering your Identity

You are not alone.
We are here to help.

Hope+Wellness provides therapy for children, teens, and adults with acute and chronic health conditions, diagnoses, stressors, and more. We serve Falls Church, McLean, and Arlington, as well as Tysons Corner, Vienna, Reston, Great Falls, Fairfax, Merrifield, and Alexandria, as well as Washington DC and Maryland. Telehealth is available across 20+ other states.

We provide exceptional psychotherapy services to empower people to live happier, healthier lives. Our services are grounded in research-based treatments that suggest an important interconnectedness between mind, body, life experience, and wellness, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and mindfulness-based therapies. We will work together to help you heal and develop the skills to live fully aware, resilient, peaceful, mindful, and alive.