A Personal Note...
As Your Breast Cancer Coach my commitment is to listen carefully to your fears, concerns, anxieties, and your hopes.
With my twenty-five years of experience as a psychotherapist and fifteen years working with breast cancer survivors, I am fully equipped to serve as Your Breast Cancer Coach. My job is to help you today, here and now, to activate internal resources that you may be struggling to find.
I will also help you to mobilize your social network and/or community resources that you've not yet discovered. Together we will work through the "stuck points," and this process will illuminate your goals.
For example, you and I may tackle the stunning shock of your diagnosis, with all its implications for you, your family, and your future.
As medical interventions are presented, we can face the treatment options together. Also, so you can benefit from them, I will bring examples of coping strategies that have worked for other women in these hard times. In addition, we can explore the creation of coping strategies that are uniquely yours.
Common to each woman after hearing the words "breast cancer" is worry about the future. This worry is often heightened when treatment is finished and your "team" has receded into the background. As Your Breast Cancer Coach, I am the member of your team that does not disappear.
Together, we will continue to work towards moving breast cancer from the foreground to the background of your life. Even though living with breast cancer becomes part of your ongoing reality, even though you may fear a recurrence, or may have recurred, you can move forward successfully toward a clear vision of what you want your life to be.
As Your Breast Cancer Coach we will meet by telephone three or four times a month. Most often these contacts will last for 30 minutes, or if needed, for 45 minutes. It is optimal that you give coaching a three month commitment to experience a real difference. Together we will find the personal schedule that's most beneficial.
Please email YourBCcoach@aol.com for a free consultation. It is important that you feel you have informed choice when evaluating Your Breast Cancer Coach.
With warm regards,
Leslie Jacobson MFT