Welcome!
I’m Erin — an ACA-Qualified Online Counsellor for Chronic Illness and Lupus.
I provide compassionate online counselling for people navigating chronic illness, lupus, anxiety, emotional overwhelm, and life’s difficult transitions.
How Counselling Can Help You
✔ Manage stress and anxiety
✔ Cope with chronic pain and fatigue
✔ Navigate grief and life changes
✔ Build self-compassion and resilience
✔ Improve relationships and communication
✔ Set healthy boundaries
✔ Feel heard, supported, and understood
✔ Reconnect with what matters most to you
Living with a chronic illness can be incredibly isolating, especially when others cannot see or fully understand what you are going through.
As a counsellor who also lives with Lupus, I bring both professional expertise and personal lived experience to my work. I understand the challenges of managing fatigue, pain, uncertainty, changing identities, and the emotional impact that chronic illness can have on every aspect of life.
My approach is warm, compassionate, and person-centred, providing a safe space where you can feel heard, understood, and supported without judgment.
Together, we can explore ways to navigate the emotional challenges of chronic illness, build resilience, and help you reconnect with the parts of yourself that exist beyond your diagnosis.
What is Lupus?
Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease where the immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue in the body. It can cause symptoms such as extreme fatigue, joint pain, inflammation, brain fog, and unpredictable flare-ups.
For many people, lupus is an invisible illness. On the outside, someone may appear fine, while internally managing pain, exhaustion, and the emotional toll of living with a long-term condition.
Living with lupus can impact mental health, identity, relationships, and everyday life. The uncertainty, fatigue, and feeling of being misunderstood can make the journey even harder.
Living With Lupus
Living with lupus often means learning to navigate a life that can feel unpredictable. Some days may feel manageable, while others are shaped by fatigue, pain, or symptoms that make even simple tasks feel overwhelming.
Many people with lupus become experts at pacing their energy, carefully balancing what they can do with what their body needs. At the same time, the emotional impact of living with a chronic illness can bring feelings of grief, frustration, isolation, or being misunderstood.
You are not weak for finding this journey difficult. Living with lupus requires resilience, patience, and compassion for yourself on the days when your body asks you to slow down.
