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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 San Diego, Black Mountain Ranch, Carmel Mountain Ranch, La Jolla, or even Miramar Ranch North, 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  • You are withdrawn or avoiding friends and family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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Dr. Christiana Silva
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Work on overcoming challenges and identify patterns that do not serve you. We will process the difficult experiences or trauma you may have had and learn strategies to cope with and overcome the uncomfortable feelings that may still linger.


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Work on overcoming challenges and identify patterns that do not serve you. We will process the difficult experiences or trauma you may have had and learn strategies to cope with and overcome the uncomfortable feelings that may still linger.

Something to know about my approach is:

I use a strengths based approach with the knowledge that each client has the inherent ability to work through challenges with a little support. I see the client-therapist relationship as a collaboration and meet each individual where they are at.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Anxiety
  • Bullying
  • Child Abuse
  • Child Behavior Issues
  • Children of Divorce
  • Chronic Pain
  • Confidence
  • Depression
  • Developmental Trauma
  • Divorce and Separation
  • Grief
  • LGBTQ+
  • Mood Disorders
  • Parent-Child Relationship
  • Self-Esteem
  • Stress
  • Substance Use
  • Trauma
  • Young Adults
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Lynn Northrop
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Help you live your one precious life with purpose and meaning, even when you are faced with big stressors, losses and pain (physical and emotional).


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Help you live your one precious life with purpose and meaning, even when you are faced with big stressors, losses and pain (physical and emotional).

Something to know about my approach is:

I've been a psychologist for 20+ years. Prior to 2023, I worked in hospitals - providing care & training hundreds of young professionals to do the same. I am proud to report that the folks I trained are my biggest referral source. They trust me.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Acute Grief
  • Adjustment Issues
  • Aging and Getting Older
  • Aging Parents
  • Anticipatory Grief
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Burnout
  • Caregivers
  • Caretakers
  • Chronic Stress
  • Compassion Fatigue
  • Complicated Grief
  • Depression
  • Driving Anxiety
  • Fears and Phobias
  • Finding Meaning or Purpose
  • Gender Identity
  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  • Grief from Losing a Pet
  • Health Anxiety
  • Healthcare Professionals
  • High-Functioning Anxiety
  • Illness Anxiety Disorder
  • Job Loss
  • Job Stress
  • Loving Someone with a Mental Health Disorder
  • Major Depressive Disorder
  • Memory Loss
  • Menopause
  • Mind-Body Connection
  • Mindfulness
  • Moving and Relocation
  • New Job Transition
  • Prolonged Grief Disorder
  • Retirement
  • Secondary Trauma
  • Self-Acceptance
  • Self-Actualization
  • Self Care
  • Self-Compassion
  • Self-Esteem
  • Situational Grief
  • Situational Stress
  • Stress-Related Disorders
  • Suicide loss
  • Therapist for Other Therapists
  • Vicarious Trauma
  • Work Stress
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Chelsea Morawa
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I believe in building a therapeutic relationship to work on maladaptive behaviors, emotions, and thoughts. To help the client understand their underlying issues, psycho-educate on coping skills; boundaries, emotion regulations, and self-improvement


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I believe in building a therapeutic relationship to work on maladaptive behaviors, emotions, and thoughts. To help the client understand their underlying issues, psycho-educate on coping skills; boundaries, emotion regulations, and self-improvement

Something to know about my approach is:

Focus on the issues, to understand and work on barriers that hold the client from achieving their goals to overcoming mental health. My approach is CBT, DBT, interpersonal development, skill building, and coping skills to build resilience.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Addictions
  • Adult ADHD
  • Alcohol
  • Anger Management
  • Attachment Disorders
  • Behavioral Disorders
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Borderline Personality
  • Burnout
  • Coping Skills
  • Depression
  • Dual Diagnosis
  • Emotional Regulation
  • Functional Anxiety
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Impulse Control Disorders
  • LGBTQ+
  • Major Depressive Disorder
  • Mood Disorders
  • Mood Regulation
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Personality Disorders
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Prolonged Grief Disorder
  • Racial or Ethnic Identity
  • Self-Esteem
  • Substance Abuse Intervention
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G. Katie Dashtban
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Learn what is bothering you and how you feel stuck. What do you need to feel better/ what struggles get in the way? We'll develop a plan and a way to execute it successfully. You will be on your way to a more fulfilling life as fast as possible.


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Together, we will:

Learn what is bothering you and how you feel stuck. What do you need to feel better/ what struggles get in the way? We'll develop a plan and a way to execute it successfully. You will be on your way to a more fulfilling life as fast as possible.

Something to know about my approach is:

I use evidence-based methods such as TEAM-CBT, based on David Burns' approach, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Health Psychology based on medical and psychological research when treating my patients.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • ADHD Testing
  • Chronic Pain
  • Depressive Disorders
  • Entrepreneurial Women
  • First Generation Issues
  • Food and Eating Concerns
  • High-Functioning Depression
  • Imposter Syndrome
  • Low Sex Drive
  • Menopause
  • Mood Swings
  • Persistant Depressive Disorder
  • Postpartum Mood Disorders
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Professional Women
  • PTSD from Abuse
  • Sex Anxiety
  • Sexual Pain
  • Sexual Trauma
  • Women’s Health
  • Workaholics
  • Working Professionals
  • Workplace Issues
  • Work Stress
  • Young Women
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Annalisa Sciullo
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I guide clients in cultivating coping tools, self compassion, insight, and ultimately becoming one’s own friend. With gentleness, collaboration, and evidence based treatments, we can work together to get you back in alignment with your values.


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I guide clients in cultivating coping tools, self compassion, insight, and ultimately becoming one’s own friend. With gentleness, collaboration, and evidence based treatments, we can work together to get you back in alignment with your values.

Something to know about my approach is:

I believe that our bodies and our minds are not the enemy and also acknowledge that sometimes it will not feel that way. Regardless of where our struggles stem from, whether it be internal or external factors, our healing comes from within.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Adjustment to Medical Diagnosis
  • Anxiety
  • Childhood Trauma
  • Chronic Pain
  • Grief
  • Insomnia and Sleep Problems
  • Self-Esteem
  • Self-Worth
  • Trauma
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Annalisa Sciullo remote and phone therapy in California, District Of Columbia, Maryland, New York, Virginia