Empowering Emotional Resilience Amid Health Challenges
Living with a chronic illness or ongoing physical pain can take a toll on your mental and emotional well-being. Whether you’re navigating a diagnosis like cancer, autoimmune conditions, or long-term pain with no clear resolution, the psychological impact can be just as significant as the physical symptoms.
At MapleTree Psychotherapy Center in Dubai, we offer compassionate, evidence-based psychological support to help you manage the emotional challenges of chronic health conditions—so you can regain a sense of balance and control over your life.
When Health Affects Your Mental Well-being
You may be experiencing:
- Anxiety about your prognosis or future
- Depression or loss of motivation
- Isolation from friends, family, or social activities
- Frustration from a limited lifestyle or dependency on others
- Fatigue and burnout from managing your health daily
- Grief over loss of function, mobility, or identity
- Fear of medical procedures or recurring symptoms
Our clients in Dubai include residents, expatriates, and caregivers facing a wide range of chronic health journeys—each deserving of support and emotional care.
How Therapy Can Help
Psychological support complements medical care by helping you:
- Cope with the emotional burden of your condition
- Reframe unhelpful thoughts around illness or pain
- Develop emotional resilience and self-compassion
- Manage anxiety, depression, and health-related trauma
- Reconnect with meaning, identity, and personal goals
- Strengthen communication with caregivers or medical teams
- Improve your quality of life—even in the face of ongoing symptoms
Therapy offers a safe space where your health challenges can be explored without judgment.
Our Therapeutic Approach
Our clinicians use a personalized blend of:
- ACT (Acceptance & Commitment Therapy) – to help you live meaningfully alongside illness or discomfort
- Pain Reprocessing and Relaxation (Mindfulness) Techniques – to support both body and mind in coping with persistent pain
- DBT (Dialectic Behavior Therapy) – to support emotional resilience in chronic pain or conditions.
- Existential Therapy – to address suffering, mortality, and meaning.
- EMDR – to process trauma from medical procedures or diagnoses.
- Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy – for end-of-life support or chronic illness care.
- Supportive Therapy for Caregivers – when loved ones also need emotional support
Who We Help
We support adults, adolescents, and caregivers in Dubai who are affected by chronic illnesses such as diabetes, cancer, arthritis, fibromyalgia, autoimmune disorders, chronic pain, and chronic fatigue.
We also offer sessions in English, Arabic, French, Urdu, Hindi, Farsi, and Finnish—making care more accessible to Dubai’s multicultural community.
Begin Your Support Journey
You don’t have to navigate the emotional impact of chronic illness alone. Learn more about our Individual Therapy & Mental Well-being offerings, meet our multilingual psychology team in Dubai, or Find a Therapist who fits your needs. For personalized support, feel free to contact us directly to schedule an appointment.
Dr. Katerine LeMay, Ph.D., C.Psych. (CAN)
Clinical Psychologist/Director and FOUNDER
Dr. JP Arzul, Ph.D. (SA)
Clinical Psychologist
Dr. Ava Ghasemi, PSY.D., C.Psych. (CAN)
Clinical Psychologist
Matleena Vanhanen, M.A. (uk)
Counselling Psychologist
Dr. Tima El Jamil, Ph,D. (USA)
Clinical Psychologist
Dr. Sarah Sease, Psy.D. (USA)
Clinical Psychologist
Karen Anne Hope Andrews, M.Clin.Psych. (SA)
Clinical Psychologist
Dr. Mohamed Tal, Ph,D., (SLO)
Clinical Psychologist, Psychoanalyst
Dr. Clarice Mendonca-King, PsyD (USA)
Clinical Psychologist & Neuropsychologist
Hanadi Beydoun, M.A., (LEB)
Psychologist
Our Team