The Chronic Illness Collective:
Where complex care meets collective wisdom
Support for Clinicians Managing Real-World Chronic Illness Cases
Monthly expert case consultation + applied training for therapists, PTs/OTs, and allied providers.
Clinicians often feel unsure how to integrate complex medical presentations into therapy and rehabilitation — and most of our formal training never covered this. The Chronic Illness Collective helps you close that gap with real case discussion, expert training, and interdisciplinary support.
The Chronic Illness Collective is a virtual case consultation and education community for professionals working with complex medical conditions. Whether you’re a therapist, physician, PT, OT, or allied health provider, this membership was built for you—and the real-world care you give every day.
What is the Chronic Illness Collective?
A virtual community for providers who get it
If you work with patients living with chronic illness, you know the challenges run deeper than a diagnosis. Fatigue, dysautonomia, chronic pain, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, somatic symptom disorders, and other complex conditions don’t follow the textbook—and most of us have had to seek out training and mentorship on our own.
The Chronic Illness Collective is a dedicated space for connection, consultation, and continued education. Whether you’re a therapist, physician, PT, OT, or other allied health professional, this is your place to learn, share, and grow—together.
What’s Included
Live virtual case consults
Monthly sessions where you can submit your own case or learn from others in the groupExpert guest trainings
Presentations from expert and nationally renown experts in mental health, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and medicineReal-world strategies
Walk away with ideas you can use with patients tomorrow—from adherence challenges to pacing and pain managementProvider referral network
Access a nation-wide, cross-disciplinary list of clinicians who specialize in chronic illness careOptional visibility
Get listed as a provider if you’re accepting referrals and meet our inclusion criteria
Who it’s For
Mental health clinicians (psychologists, social workers, counselors)
Allied health providers (PTs, OTs, SLPs)
Medical professionals who are looking for multi-disciplinary care approaches
Early career or seasoned—if you care about collaborative care, you belong here.
What you’ll walk away with:
Greater confidence integrating chronic illness in your daily practice
Applied strategies you can use next week with patients
A supportive community of peers
Connections with clinicians for referrals
Founding Member Enrollment
The founding cohort is intentionally small so that case consultation remains thoughtful, interactive, and clinically grounded.
Founding members lock in their rate as the Collective grows and additional future offerings — including CE-eligible trainings — are added.
Quarterly Founding Membership: $150 billed quarterly
A simple way to commit to the first three months of the Collective and establish momentum in your chronic illness case work.
Monthly Founding Membership: $55 billed monthly
Ideal for clinicians who prefer flexibility while participating in ongoing case consultation and training.
Meet Your Host
Dr. Lindsay Cirincione is a health psychologist with over 15 years of experience supporting individuals with chronic and invisible illnesses. She’s worked in hospital systems, inpatient units, and private practice—and now consults with therapists and allied health professionals nationwide.
Featured Speakers
A defining feature of the Collective is the opportunity to learn directly from internationally recognized clinicians and academic experts working at the forefront of complex illness care. Here you can read more about some of our nationally and internationally recognized subject matter experts:
Dr. Ellen Henning
Dr. Henning is a Licensed psychologist and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University and Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore. She specializes in pediatric psychology, focusing on chronic medical conditions, autonomic dysfunction, and long COVID. She is the Director of Psychological Services for the POTS program at Kennedy
Dr. Gray Vargas
Dr. Vargas is a licensed neuropsychologist at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. Her research interests focus on better understanding potential long-term cognitive and psychological effects of COVID illness. Previously she has done research on the intersection of mood difficulties and neuropsychological conditions including concussion and multiple sclerosis.
Dr. Christina Kokorelis
Christina Kokorelis, M.D., is a rehabilitation physician specializing in pediatric and adult postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), orthostatic intolerance and musculoskeletal rehabilitation. Dr. Kokorelis also treats children with concussions and chronic pain disorders.
An assistant professor in the Johns Hopkins Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, where she completed her residency, Dr. Kokorelis followed the residency with a pediatric rehabilitation fellowship at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Kennedy Krieger Institute.
During her residency, she served as chief resident and won the Johns Hopkins Healer Award twice, as well as the Frank L. Coulson Jr. Resident Award for Clinical Excellence. Her research interests include pediatric POTS, neurally mediated hypotension (NMH), spinal cord injuries and assistive technologies.