Online, Individual Psychotherapy for Adults with Chronic Pain, Chronic Illness, and Complex Medical Conditions

Serving patients virtually throughout Tennessee and 40+ other PSYPACT states.

Currently accepting new patients with immediate (within 1-2 weeks) appointment availability.

When Your Symptoms Have Taken Over Your Life

You may have stopped doing many of the things you want or need to do. It’s hard to make plans because your symptoms are unpredictable. Even when you’re having a relatively good day, it can be hard to fully enjoy it because you’re wondering when the next flare or setback will come. You find yourself worrying a lot about your symptoms, where all of this is going, what your future will look like, and whether you’ll just keep getting worse.

You’ve probably spent a lot of time trying harder, gathering information, researching, and looking for the next thing that might finally make you better. Pushing through, grit, and sheer willpower have likely helped you succeed in many areas of your life. But when it comes to chronic symptoms, you’re finding those same strategies are backfiring. The harder you try to fix the problem and the more you try to do, the more frustrated, overwhelmed, and worse you feel.

Here’s the good news: there is a way to break this pattern—without giving up all the things that matter to you.

You’re Ready for a Different Approach

You are determined to get rid of the pain, so you’ll try anything (even seeing a psychologist!)

You’re exhausted with trying the same things over and over with no results. You’re tired of hearing it’s “just stress” and feeling like few people seem to really understand your condition or what you’re going through.

You’re looking for a new way forward. You’re not asking for much. You just want your life, relationships, and hobbies back. You just want to live your life without having to experience and think about pain and symptoms all the time.

A Psychologist Who Understands

You’re looking for an experienced, compassionate psychologist who understands your condition, the medical system, what your symptoms are taking from you, and what it’s like to spend significant amounts of time, money, energy, and emotional capital on recovery and still get nowhere. You’re not looking for someone who applies general psychological knowledge to chronic pain and illness - you’re looking for someone who specializes in exactly what you’re struggling with every day.

I get it, because not only have I worked as a psychologist in medical systems with patients like you for many years, but I’ve been that patient, too. I had my light bulb moment in which I realized this just wasn’t working, and something drastically different needed to happen to get better. I know firsthand that meaningful improvement and living well are possible.

Your symptoms are real. You deserve a full life. There is a different way forward. Together, we can work toward getting you there.

What We’ll Do in Therapy

I’ll help you figure out why what you’ve already tried hasn’t fully worked and what might be keeping you stuck—and find an actionable way forward. You’ll learn more about your symptoms, what might be contributing to them, how to respond differently to them, ways to address them beyond medical interventions alone, and how to change patterns that aren’t working so that you can gradually get back to doing the things that matter to you.

What Can Therapy Actually Change?

Therapy can help you understand why symptoms can become so persistent, quiet the fear surrounding your symptoms, reduce the control they have over your life, and help you begin doing more of the things you’ve stopped doing.

The goal isn’t to make you better at living with a smaller life. It’s to help you build your life back.

Explore the conditions I treat and my approach to treatment.