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Cancer Counselling & Mental Health Support
A cancer diagnosis can affect your sense of safety, identity, relationships, body, plans for the future and the way you move through everyday life.
Whether you are newly diagnosed, going through treatment, adjusting to life after treatment, facing recurrence or living with ongoing uncertainty, therapy can provide a place to process what you're experiencing without needing to protect the people around you from how you really feel.
Support can also address the impact of medical procedures, pain, changes to your body, fear of recurrence, grief, anxiety and the nervous system effects of prolonged medical stress.
AMES Therapy provides cancer counselling and trauma-focused psychotherapy across Ontario, using EMDR, somatic and nervous-system approaches to support emotional well-being throughout the cancer journey.
Diagnosis & Uncertainty
Processing shock, fear, difficult decisions and the disruption that can follow a diagnosis.
During Treatment
Support through procedures, appointments, scans, side effects, changes in daily life and the emotional strain of treatment.
Life After Treatment
Adjusting when treatment ends but the emotional impact doesn't necessarily end with it.
Fear of Recurrence & Ongoing Monitoring
Working with scan anxiety, body vigilance, uncertainty and the fear that cancer may return.
Recurrence, Progression & Advanced Cancer
A place to process fear, grief, changing priorities, relationships, meaning and uncertainty without pressure to remain positive.
Cancer can change more than your health.
Support Throughout the Cancer Journey
How I Support You Through Cancer
My approach is integrative and tailored to where you are in your cancer journey. Therapy can support the emotional, relational and nervous-system impact of diagnosis, treatment, recovery and ongoing uncertainty.
Emotional & Cognitive Support
Cancer can bring fear, uncertainty, grief, anger and “what if” thinking. CBT, DBT, ACT, mindfulness and other therapeutic approaches can help you work with difficult thoughts and emotions without expecting you to simply think positively.
Identity, Relationships & Self
Cancer can change how you see yourself, your body, your relationships and your future. Therapy provides space for the different parts of your experience—the part that is coping, the part that is frightened, the part that is grieving, and the part that may simply be exhausted.
Body & Nervous System
Medical treatment can place the nervous system under prolonged stress. Somatic approaches, nervous-system regulation and EMDR can help address medical triggers, body-based responses and experiences that continue to feel unresolved after treatment.
When Treatment Ends, Your Nervous System May Still be on Alert.
Finishing treatment doesn't always mean feeling finished with cancer.
During diagnosis and treatment, there may be little time to process what is happening. Your attention can become focused on appointments, procedures, medications, test results, and simply getting through the next step.
When treatment slows down or ends, the emotional impact can sometimes become more noticeable. A scan, an appointment, a new body sensation or an upcoming anniversary may bring fear and uncertainty back very quickly.
Your mind may know that treatment is over or that your results are reassuring, while your nervous system remains watchful for the next threat.
You Might Notice:
Scanxiety and fear before tests
Checking your body for signs of illness
Fear of recurrence
Difficulty trusting your body
Feeling disconnected from self and others
Unexpected emotional reactions
You Don't Have to Navigate Cancer Alone
Whether you're facing a new diagnosis, going through treatment, adjusting to life afterward, living with uncertainty or experiencing recurrence, therapy can offer a space that is entirely yours.
You don't have to protect anyone else from what you're feeling here.
