( HS Hartshorne 150880 2026) The Impact of Diagnostic Uncertainty in Complex, Multi-System Chronic Illness Psychotherapy Stra

Course overview

When clients physical symptoms dont follow predictable patterns and a clear diagnosis is delayed or never comes, they live in a state of ongoing uncertainty that makes it hard to know how to move forward. And without specialized training, therapists can unintentionally cause harm as they misunderstand clients focus on how their body feels as avoidant, resistant, obsessive, or lacking in insight. With the rise in complex, multi-system, and often dismissed conditions like fibromyalgia, chronic Lyme, and long COVID, its more important than ever for therapists to have tools to restore agency, reduce shame, and address complex and layered grief related to changes in functioning and altered future expectations. In this session, Kanjana Hartshorne specialist in trauma-informed, body-based, and relational approaches to care will share keys to help clients regain trust in their own bodies and experience in the face of diagnostic uncertainty.