Mental Health Therapy for Eczema
in Rancho Cucamonga, CA or online throughout the states of California and Ohio
Living with eczema is harder than most people realize.
As someone who has experienced eczema since childhood and severe eczema as an adult, I understand how challenging it can be to navigate both the physical and emotional toll of this condition. As a mental health professional trained to work with the mind-body connection, I also understand how to help you reduce stress and live your life more fully.
I offer therapy for people living with eczema (from mild to severe) to help you reduce stress, better manage anxiety, create habits and routines that allow you to care for your skin, and give you a safe place to process everything that comes along with living with eczema with a mental health professional who truly gets it.
The Impact of Eczema
Challenges that many people with eczema face include:
Low Self-Image and/or Self-Esteem: Eczema can make you feel uncomfortable in your body, with how you look, and with how the world perceives you.
Feeling Isolated or Misunderstood: It can be hard to find someone who really gets eczema, which can lead to isolating or withdrawing from relationships.
High Stress and Anxiety about Flare Ups: Even on a good skin day, it can be hard to relax when your brain is always worried about the next flare.
Sleepless Nights: The impact of eczema is physical too - 89% of adults with moderate eczema and 100% with severe eczema experienced trouble falling asleep.
Chronic Pain: Eczema doesn’t just itch - it hurts too. Living with moderate to severe eczema often means living with chronic pain.
Grief and Loss: Eczema can disrupt your life, leading to feelings of grief and loss over what could have been.
Overwhelmed by Self-Care Tasks: Whether it’s applying lotion 3+ times a day or double and triple checking that the hotel is going to use fragrance-free detergent, many people feel overwhelmed by the amount of work it takes to manage your skin and live your life.
Hopelessness: Eczema really sucks. If you’ve ever felt hopeless and exhausted at the idea of facing a future with eczema, you aren’t alone.
Eczema is a psychophysiological disorder.
That means that increased stress can increase your eczema and that increased eczema can increase your stress (yikes, right?).
Eczema is a psychophysiological disorder.
That means that increased stress can increase your eczema and that increased eczema can increase your stress (yikes, right?).
Therapy Can Help
Therapy Can Help With:
Reducing Stress
In therapy with me, you’ll learn and practice practical tools that use science to help reduce stress in your body and mind, which may also help to rescue flare-up frequency.
Building Confidence
We will work on reclaiming your self-esteem and helping you recognize all the ways that you are competent, powerful, and worth believing in.
Improving Relationships
As a marriage and family therapist, I am well-aware of what it takes to communicate effectively, express yourself, and ask for the support that we all need when we’re flaring.
Anxiety Management
Therapy can help you to understand the fear, racing thoughts, and panic that many people with eczema live with.
Empathy and Connection
You’ll get to work with someone who truly understands what it feels like to live with eczema and who has walked the walk.
Building Habits
Eczema can feel like a full time job. We can work on building healthy habits that support a strong skin barrier and a vibrant life.
We’ll use evidence-based techniques like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy, and somatic techniques for nervous system regulation.
We’ll also talk. I’ll ask good questions about your experiences and help to create an environment where you can really process your eczema journey and feel more calm, confident, and capable of living life with a skin disorder.
What To Expect in Therapy
Therapy is a safe space to explore your feelings, learn skills, and practice building new habits that will help you work towards relief and healing
We’ll start by meeting once a week for 45 - 50 minutes at a time. I ask that new clients come weekly for at least the first six weeks, which allows us to get to know one another and get you started on your journey.
After that, some clients choose to move to biweekly sessions. How long you come to therapy is completely up to you and varies greatly from client to client.
You can learn more about my current fees and how to pay for therapy by checking my FAQs.
I’m not claiming to have a magic technique that will cure your skin.
I know all too well how many sales pitches people with eczema get promising a complete cure and I’m not going to pretend to offer that.
What I am offering is professional mental health support from someone who gets it and who wants to help you build a life that you love while living in the skin you’re in.
If you live in California or Ohio and you are looking for a therapist to support you in your eczema journey,
reach out today to request a free 20-minute consultation so we can determine if we are a good fit for one another.