Cancer & Survivorship

One’s experience with cancer doesn't end when treatment does, if it does. Often that's when the harder, quieter 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. 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 before becoming a therapist. I understand this territory from more than one side, and I won't ask you to minimize any part of it. Together we'll work through the psychological weight of diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship: the fear that doesn't fully leave, the losses (of health, time, certainty, sometimes relationships) that deserve real grieving, and the work of rebuilding a relationship with your body and your future that feels like yours again.

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