Chronic Pain therapists in Lake Station, Indiana IN
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Chronic Pain or Illness
Bold Expressions Therapy
Psychologist, Psy.D.
For individuals with invisible chronic illnesses, hiding your pain all the time becomes exhausting. With a chronic health issue, you don’t get to choose when you’re in pain and when you’re not, and as such, I keep my cancellation policy flexible so that I can best support you. There is often a great deal of shame surrounding chronic illness, and significant stigma as well, both from the medical community and society at large. This can lead to depression and anxiety, both medical anxiety and social anxiety. I want to work with you to ensure that your chronic illness does not completely shape your mental health. As someone who suffers from a chronic pain condition, I am understanding and aware of the unique challenges that diagnoses such as fibromyalgia, Ehlers-Danlos, Dysautonomia, arthritis, and cancer have on an individual’s personal, romantic, and professional life. My goal is to help each patient understand and accept these diagnoses and work together to manage both the physical symptoms as well as the mental turmoil that can occur while trying to live life in an able-bodied world.
5 Years Experience
Online in Lake Station, Indiana
Chronic Pain or Illness
Dorit Tomandl
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
Do you suffer from chronic pain or an auto-immune disease and are looking for an additional way for treatment? I can help you to become curious about your suffering so that we can explore any psychological component of your pain/illness.
7 Years Experience
Online in Lake Station, Indiana
Chronic Pain or Illness
Dyani Saxby
Psychologist, Ph.D., ABPP, DBSM
There is a difference between living with chronic pain and suffering with it. Suffering includes depression, unresolved grief, anxiety, isolation, and withdrawal. Chronic pain can cause these feelings because we grieve what we used to be able to do and feel that pain robs us of living a full life. Sometimes we feel like we lose ourselves entirely. When we are in a depressed or anxious mood state for a long period of time, we actually end up experiencing worse pain (and often worse sleep), which results in a vicious cycle that can feel impossible to break. The good news is that I have helped hundreds of patients improve how they respond to their pain and also lower their overall pain levels. They began to accept what they cannot control and also learn how to have more control over their pain levels through techniques such as physical pacing, relaxation, and clinical hypnosis. With board certifications in clinical health psychology, behavioral sleep medicine, and extensive training in clinical hypnosis, I can teach you skills to break the cycle of chronic pain and suffering.
13 Years Experience
Online in Lake Station, Indiana
Chronic Pain or Illness
Dr. Cynthia Edwards-Hawver
Psychologist, Psy.D.
When you’ve been in survival mode long enough, your body eventually starts to speak the truth your brain has been trying to ignore.
If you're a high-functioning woman living with chronic illness—Lyme disease, autoimmune issues, migraines, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, IBS, or symptoms no doctor can fully explain—you may have spent years blaming yourself. Pushing through. Powering on. Telling yourself you're just stressed, just tired, just too sensitive. But what if your illness isn’t just physical? What if your body is responding to something deeper—like the emotional trauma of a toxic or narcissistic relationship?
I work with women who are successful, smart, and chronically unwell—often without fully understanding that the constant stress, emotional abuse, gaslighting, or high-conflict co-parenting dynamic they’ve endured may be a major root cause of their health issues. These relationships dysregulate your nervous system, flood your body with cortisol, erode your immune system, and create the perfect storm for illness to take hold.
You may be:
Co-parenting with a narcissist and constantly walking on eggshells
Living with post-separation abuse, burnout, and deep emotional exhaustion
Feeling dismissed by medical providers who don’t ask about your relationships
Blaming your body while ignoring the decades of survival it’s endured
Overachieving while secretly unraveling
Wondering if your body is trying to get your attention
If you’ve found yourself searching:
Why am I always sick and exhausted?
How trauma affects chronic illness
Can narcissistic abuse cause physical illness?
Stress-related autoimmune disease in women
Burnout, inflammation, and emotional abuse
Why chronic illness flares after divorce
...you are not imagining it.
Your body is not broken. It’s been fighting to keep you alive through years of emotional chaos.
I specialize in working with women who are managing chronic illness and the emotional aftermath of toxic relationships. Whether you’re still in the relationship, co-parenting with someone who triggers you daily, or finally trying to heal in peace—this work matters. You deserve care that looks at the whole you: physical, emotional, relational, and psychological.
You’re not weak for being sick. You’re strong for surviving what made you sick in the first place.
25 Years Experience
Online in Lake Station, Indiana (Online Only)
Chronic Pain or Illness
Jaime Henle
Psychologist, PsyD
Sarno Sachs solution trained.
16 Years Experience
Online in Lake Station, Indiana