Diabetes Therapy

While this page focuses on type 1 diabetes, many of the emotional patterns described here also show up in other chronic health conditions, especially autoimmune conditions, long‑term medical complexity, and chronic illness burnout. If your health shapes your daily life in similar ways, you’re welcome here.

Living with type 1 diabetes means carrying a mental and emotional workload most people never see. Numbers, alarms, decisions, overnight checks, invisible labor. It’s constant, and it’s personal. And while medical teams focus on glucose patterns, you’re left holding everything else: the stress, the fear, the frustration, the identity shifts, the relationship dynamics.

You don’t need to spend your sessions explaining the basics. We can start where you already are.

What therapy can support

Many of my clients come in navigating:

• The ongoing mental fatigue of interpreting data, trends, and alarms

• The way diabetes quietly reshapes dynamics in partnerships and families

• The pressure to keep performing at work, in sport, or in parenting while managing a body that doesn’t always cooperate

• The identity shifts that come with chronic illness, especially after years of being the steady one

• The nervous‑system strain of living in a body that requires constant vigilance

• The complex relationship with their body including resentment, grief, or feeling disconnected from a body that no longer feels predictable

These themes might also resonate for people living with other chronic conditions including autoimmune disorders, long‑term medical complexity, and chronic illness burnout where the body’s unpredictability, the invisible labor, and the emotional weight of ongoing self‑management create similar patterns of stress and fatigue.

This work isn’t about perfect numbers or rigid control. It’s about creating space for your emotional experience, strengthening your capacity, and helping you build a life that feels sustainable.

My approach

My background as a Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist (CDCES) allows us to move past the basics and into the deeper layers quickly. You don’t have to teach me what a CGM trend means or why overnight lows can feel destabilizing. We can focus on you: your nervous system, your relationships, your identity, your sense of ease.

I integrate Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), IFS/parts work, EMDR, somatic approaches, mindfulness, and attachment‑based perspectives. Together, we build awareness, flexibility, and resilience.

This page is for adults in Colorado who live with type 1 diabetes or support someone who does. People who are high‑functioning, thoughtful, and often carrying more than they let on. People who are professionals, athletes, and caregivers. People who are grieving the loss of a way of life, who feel disconnected to their own bodies, who hate the highs and dread the lows. People who never truly get a day off.

It’s for people living with other chronic conditions who recognize themselves in these patterns: the vigilance, the burnout, the identity shifts, the quiet emotional labor of managing a body that no longer feels like the one you used to know.

It’s for people who are ready for therapy that meets them where they are.

If you’d like to explore working together, you’re welcome to schedule a free 15‑minute consultation.