Cancer & Survivorship

Contrary to popular belief, one’s experience with cancer doesn't end when treatment does (if treatment ends).

Often that's when the harder part starts — the fear of recurrence that flares at every check-in, the body that feels unfamiliar or untrustworthy now, the identity questions no one warned you about, the strange grief of surviving something that changed you permanently. Perhaps the loss of relationships you once held as immovable.

People around you may expect you to be relieved, grateful, "back to normal." You might be all of that and also exhausted, angry, scared, and completely unsure of who you are on the other side of this.

I bring both clinical training and lived experience to this work — I'm a cancer survivor myself, and I spent time in cancer care research while completing my Master’s of Counselling Psychology. I understand this landscape from more than one angle and I won't ask you to minimize or hide any part of it.

Together we'll work through the psychological weight of diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship. We will explore the fear that doesn't fully leave, the losses that deserve real grieving, and the work of rebuilding a relationship with your body and self.

You don't have to be inspiring. You don't have to be done processing it. You just have to bring what's actually real, and we'll work with that.