Dr. Ingela Thuné-Boyle
Chartered Psychologist
Illness, Pain & Wellness Coach
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“Living with chronic illness, chronic pain, or persistent physical symptoms can leave you feeling caught between medicine and psychology, often with neither offering the whole picture. My role is not to choose one explanation over the other, but to help you understand how they interact so that you can reduce suffering, regain confidence, and move forward with your life.”
Welcome!
Thanks for visiting. I provide online coaching for adults navigating the challenges of chronic illness, chronic pain, persistent physical symptoms, and other long-term health conditions that can significantly affect daily life and overall wellbeing.
I also support people who recognize that past experiences, including chronic stress, adverse childhood experiences, or difficult relationships, may be influencing how they cope with their health today. While coaching is not therapy, it can provide a supportive space to better understand the connections between stress, the nervous system, health, and behaviour, and to develop practical skills and strategies for moving forward.
My approach is personalized and evidence-informed, drawing on my extensive background in health psychology, behavioural medicine, and mind-body health. Together, we focus on building practical skills, strengthening resilience, improving coping, making sustainable lifestyle and behaviour changes, and helping you live a fuller, more meaningful life alongside, or beyond, chronic illness and pain.
Why Clients Choose To Work With Me
My coaching practice is devoted almost exclusively to supporting people living with chronic illness, chronic pain, and persistent physical symptoms. This means you won't need to spend the first few sessions explaining complex medical conditions or convincing me that your symptoms are real.
Many of my clients have spent years moving between medical appointments, trying treatments, searching for answers, and feeling misunderstood. Coaching with me is not about dismissing symptoms as "just stress." It begins by taking your experience seriously while helping you understand how biological, psychological, and social factors interact to influence health, symptoms, and quality of life.
People often choose to work with me because they want someone who understands both medicine and psychology, and who appreciates that chronic illness affects far more than physical health. It can reshape identity, relationships, work, confidence, daily functioning, and the nervous system. Coaching provides a collaborative space to better understand these challenges, build practical skills, strengthen resilience, develop effective coping strategies, and work towards meaningful goals that improve wellbeing and quality of life.
What I can help clients with
I work with clients facing a wide range of challenges related to chronic health conditions and overall wellbeing, including chronic illness, chronic pain, persistent physical symptoms, long-term stress, major life transitions, and the impact of difficult life experiences. Through coaching, I help clients navigate these challenges, build practical skills, strengthen resilience, develop effective coping strategies, reduce overwhelm, and create meaningful, sustainable improvements in their health and quality of life.
Below are some of the most common areas I support clients with.
Chronic Illness, Survivorship & Long-Term Health Conditions
I provide coaching for people living with chronic illness and long-term health conditions, including CFS/ME, Fibromyalgia, autoimmune conditions, Ehlers–Danlos syndrome (EDS), chronic migraine, long Covid, chronic lung disease, heart disease, and cancer. Living with an ongoing health condition can affect far more than the body, reshaping daily life, identity, relationships, work, and overall quality of life. Long-term stress can also influence symptoms and wellbeing, particularly in people with chronic conditions. You can read more about that here.
Living with chronic illness often involves persistent pain or fatigue, disrupted sleep, uncertainty, changes in work or independence, and the emotional impact of a life-changing diagnosis. Through coaching, I help clients better understand these challenges, develop practical coping strategies, build resilience, and make sustainable changes that support their health and wellbeing. Together, we focus on improving day-to-day functioning, adapting to life with chronic illness, and helping you live a meaningful and fulfilling life, whatever your health circumstances. To learn more about Chronic Illness Coaching, please click here.
Chronic Pain, Persistent Physical Symptoms & Mind–Body Conditions
I work with people living with chronic pain, fatigue, and other persistent physical symptoms, including symptoms without a clear medical explanation. These may include widespread pain, gastrointestinal difficulties, headaches, dizziness, or ongoing exhaustion. Living with persistent symptoms, especially after experiencing dismissal or medical gaslighting, can be frustrating, isolating, and deeply exhausting.
Research increasingly shows that many persistent symptoms involve changes within the nervous system as well as the body. My trauma-informed, mind–body approach recognizes that symptoms are real while exploring how factors such as stress, trauma, adverse life experiences, nervous system sensitisation, learned patterns, beliefs and expectations, and lifestyle factors can all influence the experience of pain and other symptoms.
Through coaching, I provide education, practical tools, and evidence-informed strategies to help you better understand your symptoms, regulate your nervous system, build resilience, reduce fear and avoidance, and support lasting improvements in function, wellbeing, and, where appropriate, symptom recovery. To learn more about my approach to chronic pain, click here. You can also read more about Mind–Body Syndrome here and Neuroplastic Pain here.
Life Transitions, Loss & Personal Growth
Not all challenges begin with illness. Major life transitions such as relationship changes, caregiving responsibilities, identity shifts, career changes, retirement, or unexpected loss can profoundly affect wellbeing and the way we experience ourselves and the world. Even positive changes can bring uncertainty, stress, and the need to adapt.
I provide coaching for adults navigating life transitions, chronic stress, grief and loss, rebuilding after difficult relationships, and periods of uncertainty or change. Coaching offers a supportive space to reflect on what matters most, gain clarity, develop practical skills, strengthen resilience, and identify meaningful steps forward.
For some people, times of disruption also bring deeper questions about identity, purpose, values, and personal growth. Through coaching, we can explore these questions and work towards greater confidence, direction, and a life that feels aligned with what matters most to you. You can learn more about the specific areas I support here.
If you feel you would benefit from additional support in navigating chronic illness, life changes, or other challenges affecting your wellbeing, coaching may provide a helpful space to build skills, gain clarity, and develop strategies for moving forward. Click here for more information about my approach including information about fees.
Online Coaching
I offer secure online coaching via SimplePractice, a HIPAA and GDPR-compliant Telehealth platform that is easy to use. You’ll receive a link before each session that opens a private video call, similar to Zoom. All you need is a computer, tablet, or smartphone, and I’m happy to guide you if technology feels daunting.
Online coaching provides a flexible and accessible way to receive support, particularly for people living with chronic illness, fluctuating health, fatigue, mobility limitations, or medical vulnerability. It removes many of the barriers associated with travelling to appointments, including physical exhaustion, time constraints, and concerns about exposure to illness.
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If you have any questions, or if you'd like to book a coaching session, just send me a message and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. I'm looking forward to hearing from you!
BSc (Hons.), MSc, PhD, CPsychol, AFBPsS, CCTP, CAGCS
Chartered Psychologist | Health Psychology & Behavioural Medicine
Online Coaching for Chronic Illness, Pain & Wellness
