Specialties

Cancer is likely to cause distress and potentially other mental health challenges, and the NCCN Guidelines for Patients: Distress During Cancer Care recommends mental health services if cancer-related distress may need to be treated and cared for. Yet, specialized psychological care for oncology is often limited in the community and has been called upon for increased accessibility (Aburizik et al., 2023; Irwin & Lozcalzo, 2021).

Oncopsychology Care’s mission is to support creating access to psychosocial oncology care in the community, reduce the psychological burden of cancer, and partner with patients to reduce suffering and meaningfully improve lives.

Supporting challenges in the cancer experience.

  • Supporting normal yet challenging concerns of stress, anxiety, and complex emotions connected with cancer.

  • Applying personalized recommendations to reduce stress and increase coping strengths and self-efficacy during and after cancer.

  • Supporting the natural and often unfolding process of grief and loss connected with cancer, anticipatory or otherwise.

  • Addressing unforeseen changes and transitions as it relates to self-concept, values, and existential meaning-making.

  • Discussing cancer management with ongoing demands of other salient life roles, such as being a partner, parent, or working professional.

  • Addressing challenges with partners, family, or friends that may be connected with feelings of isolation and loneliness.

Women’s Health Sub-Specialty

Expertise in women’s cancer experiences is provided through a trauma-informed lens, where women’s inherent sources of resiliency are held in the highest regard.

Oncopsychology Care supports women to deepen their self-knowledge and self-empowerment in the context of cancer aligned with their life priorities, values, and sources of meaning-making.

Addressing women’s unique concerns.

  • Supporting challenges associated with identity and lived experiences as a woman, which may include femininity, body image, or hormonal changes as a function of oncologic treatment.

  • Addressing important psychosocial challenges for the growing cohort of young adult women with oncologic illness as discussed by Memorial Sloan Kettering (2025).

  • Addressing the inherent impact of fertility concerns due to cancer treatment, which may influence stress and anxiety.

  • Caring for perinatal psychological needs while negotiating active cancer treatment, or a history of cancer.

  • Addressing menopause or menopausal symptoms connected with cancer, such as biologically premature, treatment-induced menopause.