Serious Illness Support

Steady support through diagnosis, treatment, and everything they rearrange.

A serious diagnosis rearranges everything. Schedules. Relationships. What the future is allowed to look like. The treatment gets a whole team. Everything else usually gets one person — and that person is often holding it alone.

Whether you’re the one who is sick or the one doing the holding, this is the work I do.

What We Work On Together

A steady, consistent presence. I’m not part of a rotating staff. The person you talk to this month is the person you talk to next month, whether we work together for one session or for a year.

Making sense of the medical world. I spent fifteen years in oncology clinical research. I know how the system talks — and how it doesn’t. I help you prepare for appointments, form the questions worth asking, and hold onto your own priorities inside a process that moves fast.

Decisions that match your values. When treatment choices arrive, I help you weigh them against what actually matters to you — not to make the decision for you, but to make sure it’s genuinely yours.

Advance care planning. Getting wishes documented while there’s still calm to do it in.

Communication with the people you love. What to tell the kids, how to talk to a parent, what to say when everyone is scared and no one is saying it.

Room for every emotion. Fear, anger, hope, exhaustion, dark humor. All of it is allowed here. None of it needs to be performed or hidden.