The goal of this consultation is to help identify and clarify your current psychiatric treatment needs with your current providers, with the goal of aiding your current treatment team with a second opinion, treatment options and/or guidance to the specific psychiatric needs of chronic illness patients.

Recommendations which would be implemented by your current provider may include psychiatric medication changes, therapeutic interventions, referrals and labs.

During the chronic illness consultation sessions, the goal is also to listen to your specific journey in regard to how illness has impacted your life. In the consultation we may also offer education and guidance to you in regard to navigating healthcare and coping with chronic illness stressors.

You can contact our office to set up a consultation. Please read through the insurances we accept.

Yes! You will continue to see your current treatment team. The consultation does not replace your current treatment team and interventions.

The consultation can take 1 to 3 sessions. You should plan for the initial intake to be one hour. For each consult we complete for you, the follow up sessions may be 30 minutes or one hour depending on your specific needs.

If we see you again in the future for subsequent consultation services, you should also plan for sessions to be a total of 1-3 sessions.

Since chronic illness is unpredictable, we understand we may see you more than once. It gives us an opportunity to help you and learn more about your journey.

All of our regular practice policies apply to consultations.

-If you are a provider or individual who is looking to have better clarity on how a chronic illness may be affecting psychiatric symptoms such as depression, anxiety, insomnia or fatigue.

- If you are struggling to cope with or find acceptance with how your chronic illness may have affected or changed relationships or career.

- If you are grieving the of abilities you once had due to the chronic illness.

- If you are looking for guidance on how to budget and balance low energy or brain fog.

- If you are struggling with how to understand navigating the health care system and advocate or communicate with your health care team. Many people have anxiety about having to communicate with health care providers, in addition to possibly having trauma related to their medical illness.

- If you are unsure that your current psychiatric medications are helping the symptoms that may be associated with chronic illness.

- If you are struggling to differentiate symptoms such as depression from your chronic illness fatigue.

- If you are curious about additional treatments or recommendations that may help with coping with the mental health symptoms that may be associated with a chronic illness.

- This is not an all-inclusive list, but we hope that it helps you understand the service.

• We do not offer any medical interventions or advise to treat your specific chronic illness. Please refer to your medical team.

• Consultations do not replace your current treatment team.

• We do not offer pain management.

• We will not prescribe medications, please defer to your current treatment team.

• We do not offer crisis services.

• We do not offer FMLA paperwork completion or ESA letters for consultation. Please refer to your current treatment team for these requests.

As a reminder our consultations do not offer treatment options to treat or cure the chronic illness.

The following list of illnesses is reflective of the types of illnesses that our patients struggle with in addition to struggling with a psychiatric symptom that may be associated with a chronic illness.

Consultations are for psychiatric symptoms only.

• Autoimmune such as: Rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, Sjögren’s syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis), celiac disease, and other connective tissue disorders

• POTS

• EDS

• Dysautonomia

• Cancer

• Metabolic and endocrine such as: Type 2 diabetes, obesity, thyroid disorders (hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism), and metabolic syndrome