Chase Grosse

The work centers on strategies for coping with complex health issues. We look at how the illness affects your emotions, stress, and sleep, and we build coping strategies you can use. For heart disease, we work on the emotions around a diagnosis or a heart attack, and on lifestyle changes such as diet, sleep, quitting tobacco, and regular physical activity. This can include consultation with your cardiac team when that is already part of your care. For COPD I use activity pacing, breathing skills, and relaxation, alongside the treatment plan you already have. For diabetes, we work on the daily effort of managing it, including diabetes burnout, distress, and anxiety after hypoglycemic episodes. For sleep, I work on healthier sleep routines, using cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia.

The grief process takes time. In grief counseling, I help with the feelings, including anger, guilt, and regret, and we build coping skills and a better understanding of your own experience. With caregivers, we look at the health challenges, the scope of your role, and ways to cope with your loved one's emotions and your own. I want you to have strategies for living better despite a chronic health issue.

The first meeting is a secure video session, and you do not need a referral. The work is about the emotional impact of a serious health condition, including illness, trauma, or loss. I also support caregivers and family members. If we continue, later sessions stay with coping strategies and the objectives you bring. Individual sessions are 50 minutes, and there is a 15-minute introductory call if you want a shorter conversation first.

The people I work with are those coping with the emotional side of a health condition. That is cancer, heart disease, diabetes, COPD, insomnia, and grief, and the caregivers and parents beside them. Professionals who are stretched between work and home fit here, including health care workers. Families come when illness is a shared problem, and I also work with couples.

I bring health psychology as the center of the work, and my own family background with chronic and terminal illness and caregiving. In session, that shows up as coping strategies, lifestyle changes, and a better understanding of the role the brain plays in wellness.