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Rachel Hoff is a licensed marriage and family therapist. She works for Mental Health Counseling Services in Minneapolis, providing telehealth services to individuals dealing with chronic illness, medical trauma, and prenatal and maternal health needs.
I am a licensed marriage and family therapist. I am trained in trauma-informed practices, early childhood mental health, perinatal mood disorders, first responders, and medical trauma.
I am certified in CBT, and I am almost certified in EMDR.
I use a wide variety of therapeutic modalities at work to help children, teens, adults, and families heal from their life’s challenges.
Along with my education and licensure, I relate to my clients through my own medical journey as I have a rare genetic autoimmune disorder called Senior Lokane Syndrome, and within that syndrome is the eye disease retina pigmentosa.
Description
Have you ever worked with an individual with chronic illness or a disability that conflicted with your knowledge of the health care system? Individuals who have a chronic illness are faced with challenges and daily adjustments that most people don’t have to think through or ever imagine conquering. What if you not only had a chronic illness, but it also leads to a disability that limits your ability to engage with your family, friends, and people, which leads to isolation and fear? Blindness is one of the many chronic illnesses that individuals with chronic illnesses deal with on a daily basis.
Join me in this training as I give you an insider's look at my life as an individual with both chronic illness and blindness. In this training, I will share the facts from leading health care organizations defining chronic illness and blindness that hinder the connection between patient and provider. I will also share resources with you to help you empower your clients to be able to live independently, but also fully equipped members of their community.
Objectives:
1. Identify chronic illnesses and how the definition by global agencies differs from patients' experience.
2. Observe the relationship and connections of chronic illness to blindness.
3. Understand how to engage blind individuals due to their unique needs and wants in the health care system.
4. Learn about community resources to help empower “blind” individuals in the community .
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