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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 Mateo, the suburbs of San Mateo, other nearby places such as San Bruno, Daly 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  • You are withdrawn or avoiding friends and family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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Dr. Lisa Watson
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Work towards discovering your authentic self, make meaning of current and past life experiences, develop healthy boundaries and coping skills, work towards self-empowerment, and heal past trauma.


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Work towards discovering your authentic self, make meaning of current and past life experiences, develop healthy boundaries and coping skills, work towards self-empowerment, and heal past trauma.

Something to know about my approach is:

My approach is nonjudgmental, compassionate, supportive, trauma informed, eclectic & client centered. I work within a holistic, whole person framework, addressing mind, body, emotional, and spiritual interconnectedness.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Abuse
  • Adjustment to Medical Diagnosis
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  • Bullying
  • Burnout
  • Cancer
  • Criminal Justice Involvement
  • Depressive Disorders
  • Emotional Support Animals
  • End of Life
  • Family Trauma
  • Gender Transition
  • Grief
  • Intergenerational Trauma
  • Open Relationships
  • Personal Growth
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Psychedelic Integration
  • Spiritually Transformative Experiences
  • Stress-Related Disorders
  • Trauma
  • Traumatic Loss
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Dr. Galina Buckhout
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We will collaborate about your diagnosis and treatment plan. During treatment, your treatment plan can be updated at any time. We will always work collaboratively and in line with your therapeutic goals at your comfort level.


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We will collaborate about your diagnosis and treatment plan. During treatment, your treatment plan can be updated at any time. We will always work collaboratively and in line with your therapeutic goals at your comfort level.

Something to know about my approach is:

I use several types of evidence-based psychotherapies to create a customized treatment plan tailored to your specific wants, needs, and symptom presentation. All of the psychotherapies used are evidence-based (meaning they are supported by research).

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Adjustment Issues
  • Adjustment to Medical Diagnosis
  • Adolescents
  • Alcohol
  • Anger
  • Anxiety
  • Anxiety-Driven Anger
  • Anxiety Management
  • Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  • Bereavement
  • Career Change
  • Compassion Fatigue
  • Confidence
  • Couples
  • Cultural Adjustment
  • Depression
  • Domestic Violence Survivors
  • Families
  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  • Grief
  • Health Anxiety
  • High-Functioning Anxiety
  • Immigrants
  • Job Stress
  • Life Adjustment
  • Life Changes
  • Life Transitions
  • Military Life Transition
  • Military Service
  • Nervous System Regulation
  • Parenting
  • Parenting Skills
  • Relationship Conflict
  • Relationships
  • Sadness
  • Self-Acceptance
  • Self-Compassion
  • Self-Esteem
  • Self-Harm
  • Self-Image
  • Situational Stress
  • Social Anxiety
  • Stress
  • Veterans/Military Families
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Brian Henderson
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We'll explore your relationships to partners, friends, and family; your relationship to your body, sexuality, gender, and race; and your relationship to larger meaning and purpose. We'll map out the topography of your life from a bird's-eye view.


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We'll explore your relationships to partners, friends, and family; your relationship to your body, sexuality, gender, and race; and your relationship to larger meaning and purpose. We'll map out the topography of your life from a bird's-eye view.

Something to know about my approach is:

I believe that what we feel — even and maybe especially the painful stuff — is a message from a wise part of us telling us something we need to hear. We'll slowly, compassionately work together to listen to what it is our deeper selves are saying.

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  • Autism-Related Challenges
  • Chronic Pain
  • Couples
  • Dissociative Disorders
  • Grief
  • LGBTQ+
  • Oppression
  • Sexuality
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Evelyn Nankanja
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Through our work together, we’ll restructure your beliefs. We'll explore how your past experiences could be leading to your current beliefs and feeling. You will feel empowered and able to find purpose in life.


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Through our work together, we’ll restructure your beliefs. We'll explore how your past experiences could be leading to your current beliefs and feeling. You will feel empowered and able to find purpose in life.

Something to know about my approach is:

My approach is collaborative, solution focused and compassionate. I provide a safe and empathetic space for you to explore your challenges and work towards meaningful change.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Career Counseling
  • Christian Counseling
  • Chronic Pain
  • Couples
  • Depression
  • Grief
  • Infertility
  • Parenting
  • Postpartum Depression
  • Pregnancy and Infant Loss
  • Relationship Trauma
  • Surrogacy
  • Trauma-Related Disorders
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Evelyn Nankanja remote and phone therapy in California
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Rachael Mathiak
Together, we will:

Identify the symptoms that are taking up a lot of your headspace, time, and energy, build a deeper understanding of why, and find tools that work for you specifically to give yourself back time and energy to invest in areas that are more meaningful.


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Together, we will:

Identify the symptoms that are taking up a lot of your headspace, time, and energy, build a deeper understanding of why, and find tools that work for you specifically to give yourself back time and energy to invest in areas that are more meaningful.

Something to know about my approach is:

I am warm and empathetic, while also being direct. I value honesty in the therapeutic relationship and my ultimate goal is to help people have a greater understanding of themselves and help them work towards living life in a way that is gratifying.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Anxiety
  • Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  • College Students
  • Depression
  • Insomnia and Sleep Problems
  • Life Changes
  • Parenting
  • Perfectionism
  • Stress
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Rachael Mathiak remote and phone therapy in California, Massachusetts, Michigan