Coping after a Cancer Diagnosis

Considering counseling when cancer hits close to home is a helpful way to cope during your cancer journey. Learning that you have cancer can be distressing and life altering for a person who is just diagnosed and those who love them.

From initial diagnosis to post treatment survivorship, counseling can help to improve your quality-of-life. Family members and caregivers also will benefit from supportive counseling to process the complex feelings that arise when serious illness impacts someone you love.

Comprehensive cancer care is more than treating a disease, but it is holistic care that focuses on the whole person, body, mind, and spirit.

Waters Edge Counseling has therapists on our team who are trained in walking cancer patients and families through these realities.

Why Counseling Helps When Cancer Hits Close to Home?

Supportive partner kissing woman with head covering who is undergoing cancer treatment

Many times, when people are diagnosed with cancer, there is immediate fear, anxiety and trepidation about their futures. Patients worry about the impact of their diagnosis on family and friends. Clients often express that they feel the need to take care of their loved one’s emotional response and experience of their cancer diagnosis and treatment.

Reasons to Seek Counseling when Cancer Hits Close to Home:

Learn to Deal with Your Cancer Diagnosis

This, we realize, is not an easy thing. But coming to grips with what you are facing and having a safe space to express your feelings can unload a lot of that stress.

Feeling Less Overwhelmed and More in Control

When you lay your concerns out in the open with therapists who are trained in this field, you will feel less overwhelmed and hopefully more in control of your situation.

Manage Anxiety and Depression

This is our wheelhouse. Our counselors can help you deal with these new feelings of anxiety and depression that are swirling around your diagnosis. And having a place and person to do this outside of your family and friends gives you freedom to really unleash all of those feelings and emotions.

Dealing with Emotional Concerns about Self-Image, Body-Image and even Intimacy

Our therapists are experts at helping you unpack the feelings you may have during treatment. Loss of hair, fatigue, inability to do a lot of your normal activities – these can be extremely challenging. We can give you the tools to accept this and move in the right direction. Both mentally, emotionally and physically.

Managing Fears and Worries About the Future

It is completely normal to fear the future when faced with a cancer diagnosis. We can help you talk through your fears and worries regarding the future and give you hope and ways to cope.

Contact Us for More Support

If you or a loved one has recently been diagnosed with cancer, please give us a call. We would be honored to take this journey with you and be a sounding board for you.

Call us today at 912.319.5552 or email us at info@watersedgecounseling.com to find out more. We promise to fight for you and your mental and emotional health during this difficult time.

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Coping after a Cancer Diagnosis