Cancer Counselling
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A cancer diagnosis can bring a range of emotions, including uncertainty, fear, anger and sadness. Whether you are facing a diagnosis, navigating treatment, living with ongoing cancer, supporting a loved one or adjusting to life after treatment, counselling offers a supportive space to explore your experiences, make sense of your emotions and consider what this time means for you.
GROUNDED. SUPPORTIVE. COLLABORATIVE.
There is no right way to feel.
Cancer can bring a wide range of thoughts and emotions. Every experience is different, and there is no right or wrong way to feel.
Perhaps you are experiencing:
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Uncertainty
Living with unanswered questions about what comes next.
02
A Change in identity
Trying to reconnect with yourself when life feels different.
03
Pressure to be positive
Feeling you need to protect others or put on a brave face.
04
Anxiety about the future
Managing fears around treatment, test results or recurrence.
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Changes in relationships
Navigating different needs, expectations or ways of communicating.
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Life after treatment
Adjusting when the appointments become less frequent but the emotional impact remains the same.
Support for you and those close to you.
Counselling can also be helpful if you are a partner, family member or close friend of someone diagnosed with cancer. A loved one’s diagnosis can bring its own emotional challenges, and it is common to feel uncertain, overwhelmed, or that your own needs are on hold. You are welcome to seek support for what you are experiencing.
How we can work together.
As an integrative counsellor, I draw on different therapeutic approaches to respond to your individual needs. We might explore difficult emotions, make sense of changes in your relationships, look at patterns of thinking, or find ways to manage uncertainty. Some sessions may focus on what has happened. Others may focus on how you are feeling now or what you need from the future.
You do not need to arrive knowing exactly what you want from counselling.
“ Counselling offers a space to be heard, understood and supported as you adjust to what has changed.”
You don’t have to carry everything on your own.
If you are considering counselling, we can begin with a conversation about what you are experiencing and whether working together feels right for you.
LOUGHTON & ONLINE