How can we help?
We provide direct specialist psychological support for people who are experiencing significant and persistent distress associated with their cancer diagnosis.
We can provide advice on signposting to appropriate services.
Who do we see?
We work with people over the age of 18 who have a diagnosis of cancer. We support the needs of both people coping with the impact of cancer in their lives and the professionals working alongside them.
What can we help with?
The support we offer is individualised, dependent on the reason as to why a person has decided to seek help from a psychologist. Below are some of the things we can help with but are not limited to.
- Making sense of how you have been feeling
- Managing feelings such as anxiety, sadness, anger, loss, and depression
- Making decisions about treatment
- Managing worries and living with uncertainty
- Coping with how cancer or a palliative condition affects your relationships.
- Moving forward with life after treatment has finished
- Managing the demands of home and family life while caring for yourself
- Feeling unhappy about the way you look
- Coping with adjustment, change and loss
- Coping with pain, discomfort, fatigue, and treatment side-effects
- Coping with how cancer affects self-esteem and sense of self-esteem
Feedback from people who have used the Cancer Psychology service:
“I felt it was extremely useful. When all the actual treatment has finished for me that's when the enormity hit so having someone impartial was helpful to discuss feelings, fear and concerns.”
“I didn’t think I could ever get out of the way I was feeling and the reoccurring nightmares but I have been helped so much.”
"My sessions with my clinical health psychologist completely exceeded my expectations. I have never felt so listened to and safe. I wasn’t judged, I was made to feel supported, like I had a voice and it was being heard. I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to attend these sessions.”