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Living with long-term conditions

Living with a long-term condition can be challenging but, if you look after yourself and your condition, the impact can be lessened.

Learning about your condition and what helps can give you better control. Finding meaning and purpose can then further enrich your life.

However, this is easier said than done, because we are all different and need individual solutions.

This website offers ways to help you or your clients achieve this.

For people with long-term conditions

This is a space for people living with long-term conditions to share their experiences and suggestions for how to live better.

For practitioners

This is a place for practitioners working with people with long-term conditions to access relevant information, training and resources that they can use in their practice.

About Us

We are a team of psychologists who work with people with long-term conditions. This includes advancing research and development of psychological interventions. We work closely with charities, support organisations and health and social care professionals.

We want to help people with long-term conditions find ways of living life as well as possible, including finding meaning and purpose in their lives. When people acquire a chronic condition, it can be hard to accept that life is never going to be the same again. This website provides hints, tips and resources to help individuals identify and reflect on what works for them in their particular circumstances.

Dr Stephanie Kılınç

Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Teesside University and trustee for Neuro Key

Dr Lis Hammond

Registered Counselling Psychologist and Senior Lecturer in Counselling Psychology at Teesside University