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Find Cancer Diagnosis Therapists & Counselors in La Mesa, CA.

 

A cancer diagnosis is scary, and while your focus may be on your physical health, your mental health may also be at risk. Many sufferers of cancer, radiation, or chemotherapy end up with mental disorders or challenges ranging from anxiety to depression, which can make life even harder.

Luckily, Mental Health Match can match you with a therapist who can help you manage the stress, fear, and angst surrounding a cancer diagnosis, oncology, and treatment. Whether you are located in downtown La Mesa, the suburbs of La Mesa, other nearby places such as Chula Vista, National City, or anywhere else in California, Mental Health Match can help you easily find an experienced therapist or counselor who best meets your needs.

Signs You May Need Cancer Counseling

If you’re not sure whether you need cancer counseling, we can help. Here are some signs that indicate that you should consider therapy:

  • You are overwhelmed by fear or sadness.
  • You are withdrawn or avoiding friends and family
  • You no longer want to do things that used to excite you.
  • You’ve lost your appetite.
  • You can’t sleep.

Read this article to learn more about distress caused by a cancer diagnosis.

Feel Better with Cancer Counseling

Now is the best time to seek treatment for concerns about cancer. Mental Health Match can help you get started by connecting you with the most suitable therapist for your needs. Browse below or use our free therapist matching tool.

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Vanessa Tate
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We get to dig into and discuss everything that you desire to be different and build upon ways and places your life is already going well.


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Together, we will:

We get to dig into and discuss everything that you desire to be different and build upon ways and places your life is already going well.

Something to know about my approach is:

Traditional talk therapy has it's limits. My somatic approach attempts to explore the whole person by repairing the preverbal, the wiring in the brain and nervous system that didn't get to develop to their fullest potential early on.

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  • Codependency
  • Communication Issues
  • Complex Trauma
  • Divorce and Separation
  • Generalized Anxiety
  • Insomnia and Sleep Problems
  • Pre-Marital Counseling
  • Psychosomatic Issues
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Vanessa Tate remote and phone therapy in California, Colorado
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Alex Kropf
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Anything that will help you live an enlivened, authentic, expansive, and free life.


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Anything that will help you live an enlivened, authentic, expansive, and free life.

Something to know about my approach is:

I practice from a trauma-informed, sex-positive, queer-affirming, feminist, spiritual, and social justice-oriented standpoint, and I am dedicated to challenging patriarchal-capitalist systems that have oppressed our minds, bodies, and spirit.

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  • Aging and Getting Older
  • Artists & Creative Personalities
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  • Caregiver Stress
  • Childbirth
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  • Chronic Pain
  • Compassion Fatigue
  • Complex PTSD (C-PTSD)
  • Complex Trauma
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  • Developing Secure Attachment
  • Emotional Caretakers
  • End of Life
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  • Mindfulness meditation and spirituality
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  • palliative & hospice support
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  • Post hospitalization therapy
  • Postpartum
  • Queer Identity
  • Relationship Exploration and Enhancement
  • Relationships
  • Self-acceptance
  • Self-expression
  • Self-love
  • Self Regulation
  • Sexual Empowerment
  • Sexuality
  • Sexual Pain
  • Sex worker support
  • Spiritual Exploration
  • Symbolic Grief
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Lindsay Voyles
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Together, we will explore where you are at mentally, emotionally, physically, socially & spiritually & will work together to bring greater alignment & a more clearly defined sense of purpose into your life.


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Together, we will:

Together, we will explore where you are at mentally, emotionally, physically, socially & spiritually & will work together to bring greater alignment & a more clearly defined sense of purpose into your life.

Something to know about my approach is:

I am an integrative therapist & incorporate multiple modalities in my work depending on the needs of my clients. I identify experiential learning opportunities in session allowing client’s to meet themselves more fully & to harness new tools.

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  • Anxiety
  • Chronic Pain
  • Complex PTSD (C-PTSD)
  • Family Conflict
  • Highly Sensitive People
  • Life Stress
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Spirituality
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Dr. Katheryn Conde
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Dr. Conde likes to work together with her patients to help them achieve their goals.


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Dr. Conde likes to work together with her patients to help them achieve their goals.

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As a bicultural and bilingual psychologist, Dr. Conde can help you navigate intersecting identities, such as as how culture, faith, and relationships interact.

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  • Anxiety
  • Dementia
  • Depression
  • Hispanic and Latino Issues
  • Spirituality
  • Women's Issues
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Alexis Lee
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Discuss how to rebuild your future and equip you with the tools to cope with the past and current struggles.


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Together, we will:

Discuss how to rebuild your future and equip you with the tools to cope with the past and current struggles.

Something to know about my approach is:

I will empower you to be kind to yourself through self-compassion and self-care and remind you that YOU are resilient.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Addictions
  • Depression
  • Domestic Violence
  • grief
  • High anxiety
  • Insomnia and Sleep Problems
  • Mental and emotional health awareness
  • Microaggressions
  • Racial Trauma
  • Relationship Conflict
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Alexis Lee remote and phone therapy in California