A licensed, trained, and highly experienced oncology counselor addresses the comprehensive issues and unique challenges that arise for each cancer patient and/or significant other. Many healing centers offer patients and family members free confidential counseling services for every individual affected by cancer. These services exist specifically to help patients and their family members understand, accept, and cope with their illness, from diagnosis through their course of treatment, and even beyond into healthy survivorship.
A diagnosis of cancer can impact a person in many ways. Counseling can help with the emotional part of healing. Counseling can help you to cope better with the many difficulties you face, during and after your cancer diagnosis and treatment. It can help reduce the stress you face and improve your quality of life.
Counseling services can assist:
- Mindfulness coaching
- Anxiety and stress
- Pain and illness
- Depression
- Grief and loss
- Existential support
- Fatigue
- PTSD associated with illness and pain
- Death and dying
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