Chronic Illness-Informed Treatment & Practice
Essential Strategies for Clinicians
- Speaker:
- Destiny Davis, LPC, CRC
- Duration:
- 1 Hour 03 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
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Jul 17, 2026
- Product Code:
- POS150886
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
Without training, it’s easy to inadvertently reinforce the toxic wellness narratives that clients with chronic illness are already drowning in. And it’s common to make even more harmful mistakes – to pathologize pacing as avoidance...grief over the loss of health as depression...appropriate attentiveness to health as anxiety.
And the problem deepens when the clinician is also a person with chronic illness, facing the distinct professional and clinical challenges that come with it.
In this session, Destiny Davis – expert in psychotherapy with chronic illness and host of The Chronic Illness Therapist podcast – will show you a framework to work more ethically, effectively, and sustainably with chronic illness populations as you examine how your own health experience shapes treatment. You’ll learn how to:
- Cope with unpredictable symptoms while providing responsive client care
- Navigate disclosure decisions and related ethical dilemmas
- Manage internalized ableism, countertransference, and more
Credit
Speaker
Destiny Davis, LPC, CRC Related seminars and products
Destiny Davis, LPC, CRC is a licensed professional counselor and certified rehabilitation counselor in private practice in Atlanta, GA. A specialist in psychotherapy for clients with chronic illness, Destiny works at the intersection of identity, embodiment, and the long-term psychological impact of living with illness. She leads clinical consultation groups for therapist, physical therapists, registered dietitians, and occupational therapists navigating this population, and is the co-founder of the Chronic Illness Therapist Conference.
Through her clinical practice, consultation work, and her podcast The Chronic Illness Therapist, she is committed to raising the standard of care for people with chronic illness and equipping the clinicians who serve them.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Destiny Davis has employment relationships with The Chronic Illness Therapist, Kate's Club, and is the podcast host of The Chronic Illness Therapists. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She as no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizaitons.
Non-financial: Destiny Davis has no relevant non-financial relationships.
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Objectives
- Distinguish between clinically appropriate adjustment responses and pathology in clients with chronic illness.
- Analyze the impact of a clinician's chronic illness on the therapeutic relationship.
- Implement at least one evidence-based framework for sustainable practice as a clinician with chronic illness.
Outline
The Clinical and Practice Landscape of Chronic Illness
- Scope of chronic illness
- Why chronic illness requires specialized training
- Common mistakes when working with chronically ill clients
- Differentiation of illness-related grief from depressive disorder
- Health vigilance versus health anxiety
- Is it avoidance or medically-informed pacing?
- Chronic illness-informed interpretation of standard assessment tools
- Limitations of the research and potential risks
- Comparative case studies
When the Therapist Has Chronic Illness
- The impact of internalized ableism
- Ethical considerations for self-disclosure
- Practice design strategies that accommodate physiological unpredictability
- How to set ethical limits and boundaries informed by capacity
- Professional identity resilience and use of embodied clinical knowledge
- Countertransference when both clinician and client share illness experience
- Role of peer consultation and reflective practice
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Psychiatrists
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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