Services
Medical Challenges
Support through diagnosis, treatment, and everything in between. Virtual therapy for adults facing illness or caregiving anywhere in New York or Arizona, without having to be the strong one.
Services
Medical Challenges
Support through diagnosis, treatment, and everything in between. Virtual therapy for adults facing illness or caregiving anywhere in New York or Arizona, without having to be the strong one.
How Do You Cope With a Diagnosis Without Losing Yourself?
A diagnosis or chronic illness rearranges your whole life, and the emotional weight of it rarely gets its own space. Therapy makes room for the fear, grief, and identity shifts that come with living inside a body that changed the rules.
A diagnosis can reorder your whole life in an afternoon. Whether you’re facing something acute, chronic, or simply unrelenting, the emotional weight of being a patient is its own thing, and you deserve space to put it down.
Many of Mariann’s clients come to her feeling unseen by a medical system that talks about their body but not about them. Here, Mariann widens the conversation: the fear, the grief, the resentment, the moments of unexpected grace, and the impact on the people you love.
Mariann won’t pretend the hard parts away. Drawing on ACT, together you’ll work toward acceptance not as giving up but as the ground from which you decide what’s still yours to shape.
If you’re the one caring for someone else through illness, that work belongs here too.
Is This Work Right for You?
Whether you’re the patient, the caregiver, or somewhere in between, the emotional weight of a medical life deserves its own space.
You're facing a diagnosis, treatment, or chronic condition
You're caring for someone ill and running on empty
You feel like a chart number instead of a person
Mariann’s practice is open to adults of all genders, sexual orientations, and backgrounds, across the adult lifespan. Whoever you are, you’re welcome here.
What Questions Do Clients Ask?
Do you work with people who have specific diagnoses?
Mariann has worked with clients navigating cancer, autoimmune conditions, chronic pain, neurological illness, and long recoveries. The specific diagnosis matters less than the emotional weight of living with it.
What if I'm the caregiver, not the patient?
Caregiving is its own emotional load, one that rarely gets its own space. This work belongs here too, without any obligation to seem grateful or okay.
Can therapy help when the medical situation isn't going to change?
Yes. A diagnosis can’t be rewritten, but your relationship to it can change. Drawing on ACT, the work moves toward acceptance not as giving up, but as the ground from which you decide what’s still yours to shape.
Can I meet from a hospital bed, treatment chair, or car?
Yes. Virtual sessions are meant to meet you where you are, literally. Wherever you have privacy and a signal in New York or Arizona, sessions can happen.
What if I don't want to spend the whole hour on my illness?
Then the hour won’t go there. Your medical life is part of your life, not all of it. Sessions follow what you actually need on any given day.
What Else Might Help?
Grief & Loss
Space to feel everything that loss brings, at your own pace.
Anxiety & Stress
Find steadier ground when your mind won't slow down.
Infertility
Companionship through one of life's quietest, hardest journeys.
Ready to Talk?
Book a free 15-minute consultation. No paperwork, no pressure.