Cancer & Oncology Therapy in Ontario

Cancer impacts more than your body.

A cancer diagnosis can change how you see yourself, your relationships, your sense of identity and safety, and your hopes for the future. Whether you're newly diagnosed, in treatment, living beyond treatment, navigating ongoing or advanced illness, or approaching the end of life, you don't have to navigate the emotional impact of cancer alone.

I provide virtual psychotherapy across Ontario for people living with cancer, as well as family members and caregivers. Therapy can offer a space to process what you're experiencing, make sense of what has changed, and find ways to move through an uncertain or difficult time with greater support and self-compassion.

Support Through the Cancer Experience

There isn't one way to experience cancer, and there isn't one “right” way to feel. You may be trying to cope with a new diagnosis, the demands of treatment, uncertainty about the future, or the emotional aftermath of treatment. You may be adjusting to changes in your body, relationships, identity, work, or sense of who you are.

Therapy can provide space for whatever you're carrying, including:

  • Anxiety, fear, and uncertainty

  • Grief and loss

  • Changes in identity or sense of self

  • Body image and changes in your relationship with your body

  • Relationship and family changes

  • Intimacy and sexuality after cancer

  • Fear of recurrence

  • The transition into survivorship

  • Living with ongoing or advanced illness

  • End-of-life concerns

  • Caregiver stress and emotional exhaustion

You don't need to have a particular diagnosis or experience a particular emotion to seek support. There is room for your experience here.

When Cancer Changes Your Sense of Self

Cancer can disrupt the assumptions we have about our bodies, our futures, and the lives we thought we were going to live.

Sometimes the hardest parts aren't visible. You may feel disconnected from your body, uncertain about who you are after treatment, or caught between wanting to move forward and feeling that your experience is still very much with you.

Therapy can be a space to explore these changes without needing to rush toward acceptance or positivity. Together, we can make room for what has happened while exploring what comes next.

Intimacy, Relationships & Sexuality After Cancer

Cancer and its treatment can affect intimacy, sexuality, body image, relationships, and the way you feel in your body.

These changes can be difficult to talk about, even with people you love. My training in integrative sex and couples work informs my approach to supporting individuals who are navigating changes in intimacy and sexual wellbeing following cancer.

Therapy can provide a space to talk openly about these experiences, whether you're exploring them on your own or within a relationship.

Living With Ongoing or Advanced Illness

Support for Caregivers & Loved Ones

Cancer affects more than the person diagnosed.

Family members and caregivers may experience anxiety, grief, exhaustion, helplessness, changing roles, or uncertainty about how to support someone they love while also caring for themselves.

You don't have to be the person with the diagnosis to deserve support.

Therapy can provide space to process your own experience, explore the changes happening within your relationships, and consider how you can care for yourself alongside caring for someone else.

For some people, cancer becomes an ongoing part of life rather than something with a clear beginning and end.

Living with advanced or terminal illness can bring complex emotions, uncertainty, grief, changes in identity, and difficult conversations about the future. There may also be moments of connection, meaning, hope, humour, and living fully alongside what is happening.

Therapy isn't about forcing a particular perspective or finding a positive spin. It's about having a place where you can be honest about what you're experiencing and supported in navigating what matters most to you.

My Connection to Cancer Care

My work with people affected by cancer is informed by both professional experience and personal understanding.

In addition to my psychotherapy practice, I lead programs with Wellspring Cancer Support Centres in Oakville and Niagara and facilitate for the University of Toronto's Humanism in Medicine program.

My own experience with cancer has also shaped the way I understand the emotional impact of diagnosis, treatment, survivorship, and the ways illness can change a person's relationship with their body, identity, relationships, and future.

I bring these experiences into my work while recognizing that your experience is uniquely yours. I don't assume that my story is your story. Instead, I bring curiosity, compassion, and space for you to make sense of your own.