Counseling Services
One-On-One and Group Counseling Available
“You have cancer.” Those are the three little words people don’t want to hear. They are terrifying. The Mental Health Foundation (2018) describes the run of emotions: “What if it spreads? What happens next? What will I tell the kids? What will going through treatment do to me? How will we manage if I have to give up work? Is my relationship with my husband strong enough to survive this? Am I going to die?” Each cancer journey is unique, but most have levels of anxiety, depression, vulnerability, resilience, fear, and frustration.
The diagnosis of cancer is a family experience that changes the lives of all its members, bringing with it immense stress and challenging situations. The daily routine, distribution of duties, and familial roles all change. It affects the couple’s relationship, their sex life, work obligations, household duties, and parenting. Immediately following a cancer diagnosis is the fear of the unknown. Initial disbelief, denial, and despair are common and can last from days to weeks. Dysphoric mood, anxiety, appetite changes, insomnia, or irritability often follow and can last weeks or even months. As these waves of emotions flood cancer patients, the focus of the family system shifts, and roles and responsibilities often change. The first few weeks are typically a blur of scans, biopsies, clinical opinions, treatment options, and logistical decisions. The patient is stressed…and family members are terrified and feel helpless. Often much attention is given to the patient, but it is often the spouse, children, parents, siblings, and friends who are lying awake at night with worry. Family counseling focuses on both the patient and the family system. When processed in a healthy way, patients and families typically adapt to and recuperate from treatment and return to a new baseline, sometimes referred to as a “new normal.” Counselors can help navigate the rocky path and engage in role playing with patients and their spouses in how to communicate with each other and their children during this difficult time.
Our Counselor
Stacy Bockholt Counseling LLC
Oncology Counseling
Individual, Couple, and Family Counseling
Group Counseling
Looking for peer support? CRIM oncology counselor, Stacy Bockholt, is a dual-licensed LPC-Associate (Licensed Professional Counselor) and LMFT-Associate (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist) and National Certified Counselor (NCC). She is also a three time cancer survivor. Stacy survived Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, and Breast Cancer over the past 26 years and specializes in oncology and grief individual and couple's counseling. We are excited to announce that Stacy is now offering oncology group counseling to build peer support and community for cancer patients from diagnosis through all stages of treatment and recovery. Each session is $25 (sold in packages of 10 sessions for $250). The Wednesday session is full and closed with excellent feedback, but there are still openings to join the Monday 12-1 Zoom group that will begin in the next few months. Contact Stacy at 512-815-3599 or sbockholt@gmail.com to schedule a free intake assessment. www.stacybockholt.com.
Coaching Services
A diagnosis of cancer can impact a person in many ways. Coaching can help with the emotional part of healing.
Coaching can help you to cope better with the many difficulties you face, during and after your cancer diagnosis and treatment. It can help reduce the stress you face and improve your quality of life.
How coaching can help
- Mindfulness Coaching
- Return to work and Career Coaching
- Life Coaching & Life Mapping
- Health Coaching
- Intimacy and Sexuality Coaching
- Organization Coaching
