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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 Chicago Heights, the suburbs of Chicago Heights, other nearby places such as Crete, Glenwood, or anywhere else in Illinois, 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  • You are withdrawn or avoiding friends and family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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Anna Curran
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Anna believes in the importance of meeting clients where they are and has found this to be beneficial and productive in her clinical work.


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Anna believes in the importance of meeting clients where they are and has found this to be beneficial and productive in her clinical work.

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Anna uses a biopsychosocial approach and works collaboratively with her clients to meet their own unique needs and goals. She maintains a foundation in a strengths-based approach and focuses on being a client-centered clinician.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Chronic Illness
  • Depressive Disorders
  • Interpersonal Difficulties
  • Life Transitions
  • Parenting
  • Perinatal Mood/Anxiety Disorders
  • Trauma
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Katie Green, LCSW
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People who are coping with stress, depression, guilt, grief, or shame associated with Alzheimer's or dementia. Caregivers, Care Partners, People Living with Dementia, spouses, family members, friends and professional caregivers all welcome!


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People who are coping with stress, depression, guilt, grief, or shame associated with Alzheimer's or dementia. Caregivers, Care Partners, People Living with Dementia, spouses, family members, friends and professional caregivers all welcome!

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I utilize a person-centered approach designed to help you identify and leverage your strengths, acquire new coping skills & enhance communication.

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  • Alzheimer's
  • Caregivers
  • Dementia
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Miriam Franco
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Together we can help regulate feelings that can be traumatic, painful, or stressful so that you can feel safe/grounded. With these tools, we can identify & resolve together underlying issues that sustain conflict, pain or interpersonal distress.


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Together we can help regulate feelings that can be traumatic, painful, or stressful so that you can feel safe/grounded. With these tools, we can identify & resolve together underlying issues that sustain conflict, pain or interpersonal distress.

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When you reach for help during life's most challenging moments, my commitment to you is to reach back and meet you with genuine interest, compassion and a wide-range of skills. I incorporate EMDR & somatic therapies within a psycho-dynamic framework.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Chronic Pain
  • Developmental Trauma
  • Medical Trauma
  • Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
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R. Scott Furda
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We change when something is emotionally important. We will explore what gets your attention and use that energy to your advantage. Self-Care can be challenging but we have to get it in there somehow. Alienation, anger, fear, hurt, guilt can haunt us.


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We change when something is emotionally important. We will explore what gets your attention and use that energy to your advantage. Self-Care can be challenging but we have to get it in there somehow. Alienation, anger, fear, hurt, guilt can haunt us.

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When we drive we have blind spots. When we live we have blind spots. To improve awareness we will explore your inner world, feel it, think about it, give it words or images and be creative thinkers. We can use books, movies, dreams or music to help.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Adjustment to Medical Diagnosis
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Family of Origin
  • Feeling Stuck
  • Grief
  • Identity
  • Interpersonal Difficulties
  • Life Adjustment
  • Traumatic Loss
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Raymond Annable
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Learn how to come to terms with past events that have led you to this point and accept, rather than fight, feelings such as anxiety, grief, guilt, and shame. I can also help you learn skills to build a life that you are happy to wake up and live.


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Learn how to come to terms with past events that have led you to this point and accept, rather than fight, feelings such as anxiety, grief, guilt, and shame. I can also help you learn skills to build a life that you are happy to wake up and live.

Something to know about my approach is:

Many of my clients come to me at pivotal points in life. Times in life where you know you can't keep living the way you are but you can't see a way forward.

FOCUS AREAS:
  • Adjustment to Medical Diagnosis
  • Alcohol
  • Anxiety
  • Health Anxiety
  • High Anxiety
  • High-Functioning Anxiety
  • Illness and Disease
  • Social Anxiety
  • Substance Use
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Raymond Annable remote and phone therapy in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District Of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, No...