Chris Nadler, PhD, LP

My name is Chris, and I am a therapist and psychoanalyst. I have EDS and work with people with EDS. Being in therapy or psychoanalysis, with an analyst who understands EDS, can be helpful in giving you the clarity of what is what, and helping you trust yourself, helping you to access medical care, and helping you to navigate medical settings where you have been dismissed and gaslit. You may be one of the many people with EDS who have been told that your bodily symptoms are “in your head,”—by both medical doctors and therapists. I work with people who have been told that their physical distress is psychological in origin, people who have tried their hardest to address their trauma and stress but haven’t found enough—or any—relief for their physical symptoms, people who have started to believe that what they really need to do is just work harder and harder. Over time, not only are there unresolved medical issues, but the physical symptoms can actual complicate your therapeutic work because if they don’t resolve, you start to feel like a failure for not working hard enough to resolve your trauma. Does this sound familiar? This ultimately makes it hard to do actual trauma work and hard to get the right medical care. Can you tell the difference between a flare-up and a period of depression? The difference between a mast cell reaction and a panic attack? Psychoanalytic work with me will give you the internal clarity both to address your actual trauma (because most likely you do have some of that too, if not just from dealing with the medical system), and give you the strength in your sense of self to know what is not your trauma.

The NYIT EDS/Hypermobility Treatment Center operates in Old Westbury and Central Islip, offering specialized rehabilitation and treatment. Mount Sinai South Nassau Chiari EDS Center in Oceanside focuses on EDS with Chiari malformation. Weill Cornell provides pain management expertise. New York Medicaid covers genetic testing with prior authorization. Wait times at major programs can be 6 months or longer.