Health Psychologist and CBT Therapist
The impact of physical health conditions
The experience of being diagnosed and living with a physical health condition can be distressing. Everyone’s experience of living with a physical health condition is different. Your physical health condition might affect you in one or some of these ways:
Feeling distressed, as if you can’t cope with it all.
Stopping doing things you enjoy.
Feeling frustrated by the impact of your physical health condition on your life.
Worrying or feeling hopeless about the future.
Struggling to manage your condition or making the changes your doctor has recommended.
Interference with work, your social life, or relationships.
Struggling to come to terms with your physical health condition.
Loss of sense of identity.
Feeling stigmatised.
Psychological input for physical health conditions
Psychological input focuses on helping people to live with the impact of their physical health condition, to build on existing strengths and resources, to explore new ways of coping and to learn and practice new strategies.
Key areas of input:
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Supporting adjustment to diagnosis of a physical health condition and/or the ongoing impact.
Managing psychological and emotional difficulties, such as fear, anxiety and/or low mood associated with a diagnosis of a physical health condition.
Coping with treatment and self-management of a physical health condition.
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I specialise in supporting people with the management of their physical health condition using CBT approaches.