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Elise Quiggins, MA, LMFTA
Systemic Therapy & Support Groups
Welcome!
I provide telehealth therapy Monday-Thursday with online hEDS/HSD support groups beginning this July. I am licensed in Washington state with Oregon coming soon. Sliding scale pricing and superbills are available.
About
I am an Associate Marriage & Family Therapist (or systemic therapist), and I am also hypermobile and queer. I primarily work with individual clients and relationships who are impacted by chronic illness, especially hypermobility disorders. I also work with people experiencing anxiety, grief, trauma, and more. I use somatic therapy and other techniques, and I adjust my approach and offer accommodations based on your unique goals and accessibility needs.
Services
As an Associate Marriage & Family Therapist, I have specialized training in providing systemic therapy to individual clients and relationships. Support groups will also be available soon.
Individual Therapy
Age group: 13+
Concerns: Chronic illness, anxiety, depression, grief, healthy masculinity, identity, life transitions, trauma, and more.
It is an especially stressful time to be alive, and often even more so for people affected by chronic illness. Individual therapy is a space to slow down, reconnect to yourself, and start working toward a life that can work better for you.
Couple & Relationship Therapy
Age group: 18+
Concerns: Chronic illness, communication, conflict, parenting, relationship transitions, stress,
and more.
Chronic illness can affect every part of your life, from work to parenting to friendships. Therapy with a business partner, friend, biological or chosen family member(s), or partner(s) can help build and repair relationships that are impacted by chronic illness.
Coming soon! --
Support Groups
Age groups: 14-18 & 18+
Concerns: Hypermobile spectrum disorder (HSD) & Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (hEDS)
Support groups are available for people who have suspected or confirmed HSD and hEDS. Groups are divided into mild, moderate, severe, and high school, so you are most likely to meet people who have similar experiences to your own.
Therapy for people with chronic illness, by someone with chronic illness
Whether you're feeling off and looking for answers, or you've received one or many diagnoses, therapy can be a vital place of support on your chronic illness journey. From processing medical gaslighting and grief, to learning to advocate for yourself, to finding ways to simply exist in your body from one day to the next, chronic illness therapy can help you find more moments of ease, joy, and alignment among the moments of challenge and pain.
What is hypermobility?
In general
Hypermobility means one or more joints in someone's body can move outside of the normal range of motion. This is usually due to injury, conditioning, and health conditions. Hypermobility can cause pain and many other symptoms, or people can have no symptoms.
hEDS & HSD
I specialize in providing therapy to people with chronic illness and have a special interest in working with people who have Hypermobile Spectrum Disorder, or HSD (also called Hypermobility Syndrome) and hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, or hEDS. These conditions are very often genetic. People with HSD and hEDS are more likely than the general population to experience other chronic illnesses as well as mental health conditions like ADHD, anxiety, and Autism. And, hEDS/HSD can profoundly impact a person's mental health.
People with hEDS and HSD can experience mild or no symptoms to extremely disabling symptoms. No matter where you are on that spectrum or where you are in your diagnostic journey, I am here to help with the mental health effects.