Health, Illness & Relationship Support
When health changes, relationships change with it.
Illness, caregiving, menopause, fertility stress, medical trauma, or a hard diagnosis can quietly reshape how you feel in your body, how you relate to those you love, and the story you thought you were living. Therapy gives us a place to slow down and hold what is difficult, together.
A gentle note
This is emotional and relational care, not medical treatment.
I do not give medical advice, diagnose conditions, or replace the care of your doctor or specialist. What therapy can offer is space for the emotional weight, relational strain, grief, and identity questions that living with health-related stress often brings — the parts of the story that clinics rarely have time to hold.
This may be for you if
Something in your body, your story, or your relationships has been asking for care.
- You are living with a chronic illness, long-term pain, or ongoing symptoms.
- You are navigating perimenopause, menopause, or changes in your body.
- You are in the middle of fertility stress, pregnancy loss, or difficult reproductive decisions.
- You are carrying medical trauma, a hard diagnosis, or memories of frightening treatment.
- You are caring for a parent, partner, or child whose health has changed.
- Your relationship feels different since illness, caregiving, or diagnosis entered the picture.
- You are grieving a version of your body, your future, or your family that has changed.
What we may work on together
Some of what often shows up in the work.
- Chronic illness and long-term conditions
- Perimenopause and menopause
- Fertility stress and pregnancy loss
- Medical trauma and hard diagnoses
- Adjusting to diagnosis or treatment
- Caregiver fatigue and burnout
- Ageing parents and family caregiving
- Changes in the body, energy, or identity
- Grief around health and loss
- Communication with medical providers
- Illness in the couple relationship
- Family conversations about health and care
A Medical Family Therapy lens
Body, story, family, and medical journey — all in the same room.
A Medical Family Therapy lens simply means I pay attention to how health, illness, the body, medical systems, caregiving, family roles, culture, and relationships shape one another. Symptoms rarely land on just one person — they ripple through partners, parents, children, and the way a family organises itself around care.
Together, we make room for the medical story and the emotional story to sit alongside each other, so you do not have to keep splitting yourself between them.
Who this is for
Individuals, couples, and families are all welcome.
You might come on your own to make sense of what you are carrying in your body and mind. You might come with your partner because illness or caregiving has quietly changed the relationship. Sometimes families come together to talk about a diagnosis, an ageing parent, or a shift no one has known how to name. We can decide the shape of the work together.
You do not need to have this figured out before reaching out.
A few honest sentences about what has been heavy are enough to begin.