The Chronic Illness Therapist Collective

The waitlist is open now, and getting in early locks your founding member rate: $570 for the whole year.

That's the equivalent of $47.50/month (a $210 savings over paying monthly.)

And if you're pre-licensed or associate-licensed, or in need of financial support, there's a tier made for you at $35/month or $380/year, so you can grow with us from the very start and regardless of your income. 

You can come late, leave early, and no need to RSVP!

Clinical consultation takes place on zoom every 3rd Friday of the month from 1-3pm EST.

Business mastermind group takes place on zoom every 1st Friday of the month from 1-3pm EST.

Skills Class meets every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month from 1-2pm EST.

Come late, leave early, or stay the whole time.

Sign up for the waiting list below!

I, Destiny Davis LPC CRC, have a Master’s of Science in Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling.

It’s so much more than a counseling degree. Rehab therapists are disability and systems therapists. 

When I say I specialize in chronic illness, I don’t just mean it’s an interesting topic to me. 

As a CRC, I was trained to understand the whole person in context. This includes the medical, psychological, vocational, social, and environmental factors that shape someone's life with disability or chronic illness. Most mental health training stops at the psychological, leaving our clients drastically underserved.

This has provided me with a foundation of:

• Medical fluency. I was trained to read diagnostic reports, understand functional limitations, and collaborate with physicians, OTs, PTs, and specialists.

• Disability as identity and culture. Rehab counseling programs are grounded in Disability Studies frameworks, not deficit models. Disability Justice is baked into this work.

• Vocational and functional impact. I understand how illness affects someone's ability to work, pursue roles, and maintain identity — a dimension most therapists completely miss when working with chronically ill clients.

• Systems navigation. Vocational Rehabilitation systems, SSI/SSDI, ADA accommodations, and navigating insurance (especially in today’s world) is critical to this work

• The CRC credential. The Certified Rehabilitation Counselor is a nationally recognized specialty credential. It signals postgraduate clinical competency in a specialized field (disability counseling)

I have also trained through the end of Year 2 with Somatic Experiencing International.

• Meets twice a month (1st and 3rd Friday from 1-2pm EST)

• Each class focuses on one specific intervention you can use with clients that week

• Drawn from ACT, somatic work, and mindfulness-based approaches adapted for chronic illness without leaving your client feeling gaslit

• Less lecture, more practice: we walk through the skill, try it, and talk about when it fits and when it doesn't

• Built to close the gap between "I read about this technique" and "I know how to use it in session"

• A 2-hour call once a month, live on Zoom

• Bring your cases for discussion, or come to listen and learn from others

• Topics members bring: theory and modality discussions; case conceptualization for complex; misunderstood, or contested diagnoses, countertransference; pacing sessions for clients with energy-limiting conditions; holding space for grief that doesn't resolve; resources for specific conditions

• Input from Destiny and from clinicians who work with chronically ill clients every day, so nobody needs a 20-minute explanation of why your client can't just "push through"

• Come late, leave early, no RSVP needed

• A 2-hour call once a month, focused on the business side of this work

• Bring questions about building a private-pay practice, marketing to chronically ill clients without cure-narrative territory, pricing, niching, speaking, social media, podcasting, and passion projects

• Space to talk about preventing your own burnout while serving a high-needs population

• Part strategy session, part reality check from people who run practices like yours

• Come late, leave early, no RSVP

Destiny’s foundation is in:

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

• Somatic Experiencing

Our members use the following modalities:

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

• Internal Family Systems

• Somatic Experiencing

• Inference-Based CBT

• Brainspotting

• EMDR

• + other client-centered modalities that focus first on the therapeutic relationship