Local centres:
Coping with emotions
Counselling Service
You and your whanau may experience a mixture of feelings when faced with a cancer diagnosis.
Counsellors have specialised skills and experience to assist people to cope during this time. It can help to talk with someone outside of those close to you. Some people find one session very useful and others appreciate continuing support.
Counselling is available to people who have been diagnosed with cancer and their whanau.
Counselling can help with:
- The shock and disbelief of diagnosis
- Learning to manage difficult emotions such as anger, grief, anxiety, sadness or depression
- The feeling that nobody understands
- Managing emotions around follow up appointments
- Coping with change and regaining confidence
- Uncertainty about the future
- Moving on with life after cancer treatment
