Therapy with Me
What can you expect when working with me?
Working with me is a blend of therapy, emotional support, and practical coaching. I use a holistic approach designed for the unique challenges of cancer, serious illness, survivorship, caregiving, and grief.
This is not just a space to talk about what’s hard (though there’s room for that, too). It’s a space to learn, grow, and build a toolbox that supports you every single day.
You can expect a calm, steady place to land. Our sessions provide you with a space to breathe – away from the chaos of appointments, decisions, fear, or family tension. You can show up exactly as you are, without needing to be strong or put together.
We will focus on you gaining emotional clarity and grounding as we work through fear, anxiety, anger, sadness, or overwhelm you’re carrying. You’ll learn how to understand your emotions instead of being consumed by them.
Practical tools will make up your toolkit.
The emphasis is on you gaining practical tools that you can use immediately.
Those tools will include strategies for coping with anxiety, panic, or medical trauma, scripts for difficult conversations with partners, kids, or doctors, and communication tools to help your family reconnect.
You will learn breathing, grounding, and mindfulness practices, as well as skills for managing fatigue, decision overwhelm, or caregiver burnout, and how to support children of any age through illness or grief.
We will develop a roadmap for navigating medical uncertainty and “scanxiety.” These tools go home with you – you’ll use them between sessions and long after therapy ends.
Guidance includes a blend of heart and strategy.
I’m warm and relational, but I’m also practical.
Sometimes, you need emotional support or structure on the following steps to take.
With me, you get both.
Therapy is tailored to your needs.
You may be a newly diagnosed and frozen parent trying to hold your family together, or a caregiver who hasn’t had a moment to breathe.
Perhaps you are a couple navigating treatment decisions or recurrence. Maybe you are a survivor rebuilding your identity or someone grieving the person you’ve lost.
It doesn’t matter; we consider each client to be unique with specific needs. Therefore, sessions are customized to meet those needs.
Therapy with me is a collaborative and empowering relationship.
You are the expert of your life.
My role is to walk beside you, help you make sense of what you’re facing, and equip you with support that feels real, personalized, and sustainable.
You’ll never be alone in this process and will always have a guide, a plan, and a growing set of tools to steady you – no matter what the path brings.
About Me
Why do I do this work?
People often ask how I’ve been able to spend more than 25 years walking beside individuals and families facing cancer and serious illness. The truth is: this work found me long before I chose it.
I grew up watching the people I love battle cancer – first as a daughter, then as a sister, and later as a mother supporting my own child through treatment. I know the pit in your stomach when you’re waiting for results, the quiet moments of fear you hide so you don’t worry your family, and what it means to be strong for everyone else while feeling terrified inside.
Those experiences didn’t harden me – they humbled me and prepared me for where I am today. They taught me that illness doesn’t just affect the body; it affects identity, relationships, family rhythm, and every corner of a person’s emotional life.
Professionally, I found myself drawn into oncology and hospice care because it felt like sacred work. Sitting with families in their most vulnerable, intimate moments showed me the strength people don’t know they have and the profound healing that happens when someone feels truly seen, heard, and supported.
No one should face illness alone.
I do this work because every family deserves guidance and compassion when life feels impossible. Healing isn’t just physical; it’s emotional, relational, and spiritual.
I’ve been on both sides of this journey, and I know how deeply it matters to have someone who understands.
I honestly believe that every person diagnosed with cancer, or any serious illness, should have a built-in counseling component to their treatment plan.
This isn’t just my profession. It’s my purpose, my calling, and the heart of who I am.