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Aug 10, 2026

What Your Therapist Wants You to Know About Cancer-Related Anxiety

A cancer diagnosis can change the way you experience everyday life. Time may suddenly feel divided into appointments, test results, treatment cycles, and waiting periods. A simple ache that you might once have ignored can become a source of worry. A scan can feel like a verdict rather than simply another step in the treatment journey.

If you have experienced anxiety after a cancer diagnosis, it is important to know that anxiety does not mean you are weak, negative, or failing to cope. It can be a natural response to uncertainty and a situation that carries significant emotional weight.

Jun 17, 2026

Why Stress Doesn't Just Disappear: Understanding the Stress Cycle

The stress cycle has three stages: trigger, activation, and resolution. Modern life is very good at creating the first two. The third, we rarely complete. And an incomplete cycle doesn't disappear. It lives in your body as cortisol, tension, disrupted sleep, and eventual burnout.

May 29, 2026

What Chemotherapy Does to Your Mood And Why It's Not Just 'Side Effects'

As a psychologist who works closely with cancer patients, I want to challenge that framing entirely. What chemotherapy does to your mood is not incidental. It is not a footnote. It is a profound, biologically-driven, and deeply human experience that deserves to be understood and treated with the same seriousness as any physical symptom.

May 20, 2026

How Burnout Affects Your Relationships and How Psychological Care Can Help

Burnout has become one of the most common health challenges of our time. We talk about it in terms of productivity loss, sick days, and career impact, but one of its most painful and least-discussed consequences plays out far from the workplace. It plays out at home, at the dinner table, in the silences between partners, and in the distance that slowly grows between people who once felt close.

If you've ever come home from work too exhausted to hold a conversation, snapped at someone you love for no real reason, or felt emotionally numb even when surrounded by people who care about you, you already know that burnout doesn't clock out when you do.