How Therapy Helps Navigate

Having your medical care reflect who you are and what matters most to you is essential in living well through an illness.

These important pieces of clinical care involve not only events and forms, but processes that benefit from active support, care, and attention early in an illness and over time.

Busy medical settings are often not equipped to give the unhurried attention and care that these processes require over time. Many medical clinicians are not trained in actively providing clinical care for the complex emotions and relationships they involve.

All too often, the full weight of their complexity is felt during a crisis, without the support needed to process what is happening. When this happens, it can create suffering for both patients and loved ones in ways that are potentially preventable.

Everyone deserves the opportunity to attend to these needs early in the course of an illness, without the time pressures of busy medical settings, and without the pressure of a crisis.

© Nicole Sucre, PsyD

As your therapist, I value providing the protected space and active support to help you navigate these important processes with the time and care they deserve, in the way that makes sense for you.