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Greentpsychology, LLC GreenTPsychology, LLC is a private psychotherapy clinical run by Dr. Nicoletta C. Skoufalos.

The intention of this practice is to help people who are living with a variety of difficulties improve their quality of life and their relationships with themselves and others. With my hopeful and positive outlook on change, I strive to help people achieve a fresh and green perspective on their lives.

My new both Autoimmune Disease & Your Mental Health: Finding Resilience, Connection & Hope with Invisible Illness is set...
10/08/2026

My new both Autoimmune Disease & Your Mental Health: Finding Resilience, Connection & Hope with Invisible Illness is set for release in late December 2026!!!

This book provides practical tools for managing stress, anxiety, uncertainty, grief, relationship challenges, and the day to day realities of life with an autoimmune disease. Written by a psychologist and autoimmune disease patient herself, the intent of the book is to make people living with autoimmune disease feel heard, understood, and supported. This book is meant to provide you with a feeling of empowerment and help you cultivate resilience, so that you can move forward with confidence and connection.

Pre-order link will be coming soon!!

10/08/2026

Body trust may look different after autoimmune disease.

It does not have to mean pretending the body is predictable.

Sometimes it means learning how to listen without living in constant fear, respond without self-blame, and care for a body that may not behave the way someone wishes it would.

This is one of the many psychological dimensions of autoimmune disease that deserves space in therapy.

đź”— Explore my book and CE training through the link in bio.

10/07/2026

A good day can bring relief and sometimes anxiety about when it might end.

Living with an unpredictable body can change the way someone experiences even the moments when symptoms are manageable.

The goal isn’t necessarily to convince yourself that tomorrow will also be a good day.

Sometimes it’s learning to let today be good without asking it to make promises about tomorrow.

Follow for more conversations about the intersection of autoimmune disease, chronic illness, and mental health.

“Trust your body” sounds simple.But what happens when someone’s body has repeatedly behaved in unexpected, painful, or f...
10/06/2026

“Trust your body” sounds simple.

But what happens when someone’s body has repeatedly behaved in unexpected, painful, or frightening ways?

For some people living with autoimmune disease, illness fundamentally changes their relationship with their physical selves.

They may feel betrayed by their body.
Fearful of it.
Hyperaware of it.
Disconnected from it.

Therapeutic work can help clients explore this relationship without promising control that may not be possible.

My book, Understanding Autoimmune Disease: A Therapist’s Guide to Invisible Illness, explores the psychological experience of illness for clinicians who want to better understand these complexities.

đź”— Find the book and course through the link in bio.

10/01/2026

Context before conclusions.

For clients managing autoimmune disease, awareness of physical symptoms may sometimes be adaptive, medically necessary, anxiety-driven, or some combination of the three.

Effective therapy begins with understanding what the behavior means for this particular client.

For mental health professionals who want more specialized training in this area, my self-guided CE course offers 10 CE hours focused on psychotherapy with autoimmune disease.

đź”— Link in bio.

Symptom monitoring can mean different things depending on the client.For someone living with autoimmune disease, noticin...
09/29/2026

Symptom monitoring can mean different things depending on the client.

For someone living with autoimmune disease, noticing changes in their body may be medically necessary. It can also become distressing or anxiety-driven—and sometimes both can be true.
That’s why context matters.

Before labeling a behavior as health anxiety, understand the client’s medical history, lived experience, and what that monitoring is doing in their life.

My self-guided CE course helps therapists develop a more nuanced framework for working with autoimmune disease and invisible illness.

đź”— 10 CE hours | Link in bio.

09/24/2026

“I feel lazy” may contain grief, shame, identity, perfectionism, fear, and deeply held beliefs about worth.

When autoimmune disease changes someone’s capacity, those beliefs may become impossible to ignore.

For therapists, understanding the psychological meaning attached to productivity can help us avoid reducing the problem to motivation alone.

This is one of many areas explored in my training for mental health professionals working with autoimmune disease.

đź”— Self-guided course information is in the link in bio.

For someone who has built an identity around productivity, reliability, achievement, or independence, chronic illness ca...
09/22/2026

For someone who has built an identity around productivity, reliability, achievement, or independence, chronic illness can disrupt much more than a schedule.

It can disrupt self-worth.
Rest may feel morally loaded.
Reduced capacity may be interpreted as failure.

And a client may repeatedly push beyond their limits to prove—to themselves or others—that they are still capable.

Understanding those beliefs can be an important part of psychotherapy with chronic illness.
The goal isn’t simply to tell someone to “rest more.”

It’s to understand why rest may feel psychologically threatening in the first place.

I explore these intersections more deeply in my book and CE training for mental health professionals.
đź”— Link in bio.

09/17/2026

Two things can be true.

A person can be grateful for support and grieve their independence.

A caregiver can love someone deeply and still feel tired.
Relationships affected by illness often contain emotions that are uncomfortable to acknowledge but important to understand.

Therapists can help create a space where those complexities are allowed.

This is part of the clinical work I explore in Understanding Autoimmune Disease and my self-guided CE course.

đź”— Resources in the link in bio.

Relationships are not immune to the impact of autoimmune disease. Roles may shift.One partner may take on more practical...
09/15/2026

Relationships are not immune to the impact of autoimmune disease.

Roles may shift.
One partner may take on more practical responsibility.
The person living with illness may need help they never imagined needing.
Both people may experience guilt about their emotional responses.

And sometimes there’s pressure to present a simple story:
“The caregiver should only feel grateful to help.”
“The person who’s sick should only feel grateful to receive help.”

Real relationships are more complicated than that.
Therapy can make room for competing emotions without treating them as evidence that the relationship is failing.

For mental health professionals, understanding these dynamics is another important part of autoimmune-informed care.

Learn more through my book and CE course in the link in bio.

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211 W 56th Street Apt 30G
New York, NY
10019

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Monday 11am - 8pm
Wednesday 11am - 8pm
Friday 11am - 6pm

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