Breast Cancer Coach

Whether you’re recovering from breast cancer treatment or a preventative mastectomy, your body (and your heart) have been through a lot.

You might be dealing with side effects like chest tightness, pain, swelling, limited shoulder motion, fatigue, or a body that just doesn’t feel like yours right now. While all of these side effects are common, they are not something you have to simply live with or “just accept.”

You deserve individualized, specialized care that helps you feel stronger, more informed, and more like yourself again.

As a Certified Breast Cancer Coach, Oncology Physical Therapist, and Certified Lymphedema Therapist, I’m here to help you navigate recovery with fewer side effects, greater knowledge, and an improved quality of life. Through evidence-based education, therapeutic exercises, and rehabilitation strategies, we’ll address your treatment-related side effects and enhance your overall well-being.

You don’t have to face recovery alone. I’m here to stand beside you every step of the way.

Personalized Breast Cancer Coaching

Breast Surgery Recovery

If you’re recovering from breast or reconstructive surgery and want to reduce post-op side effects, prevent complications, and get back to feeling like yourself, you’re in the right place.

As an Oncology Physical Therapist and Certified Breast Cancer Coach, I’ll guide you through safe and effective rehabilitation strategies to support healing and help you regain mobility and strength. Our coaching sessions may include:

  • Therapeutic Exercises: A personalized exercise program to improve your mobility, flexibility, and strength, and address post-surgical issues like Axillary Web Syndrome (cording).

  • Pain Relief & Scar Care: Practical, evidence-based techniques to reduce your pain and swelling, improve your scar mobility, and ease any chest tightness or sensitivity.

  • Postural Education: Simple guidance to restore your posture, reduce strain, and support optimal healing as you recover.

  • Specialized Tools: Step-by-step guidance for self-lymphatic drainage techniques, energy conservation strategies, compression garments, and other tools to support your recovery.

  • Lymphedema Risk Reduction: Clear education and progressive exercises to help minimize your risk of developing lymphedema after surgery and/or lymph node removal.

Lymphedema Risk Reduction & Management

Whether you’re at risk for lymphedema after breast treatments or you’re living with breast cancer-related lymphedema, you deserve to be informed and supported with a plan that’s personalized to you. With the right education and strategies, you can help minimize your risk of lymphedema, manage swelling more effectively, and feel more comfortable in your body.

As a Certified Lymphedema Therapist, I’ll guide you step-by-step with a plan tailored to your body, your treatment history, and your daily life. Our coaching sessions may include:

  • Swelling Management: Guidance on the right compression garments, tools, and daily routines to reduce your swelling, improve your comfort, and support your skin health.

  • Self-Lymphatic Drainage Massage: Clear, personalized techniques for lymphatic drainage massage designed for your body, swelling pattern, and treatment history.

  • Progressive Strength & Mobility Exercises: A gradual, customized exercise program to improve your mobility and rebuild your strength, so your body can handle real-life demands without overload.

  • Flare-Up Prevention & Risk Reduction: Education on your personal risk factors, early signs of overload, and practical strategies (pacing, compression, recovery tools, and daily practices) to help prevent flare-ups and support long-term lymphatic health.

How We Can Work Together

Free Consultation Call

We’ll begin with a 15-minute consultation call to briefly talk about your individual concerns and goals. You’ll learn about my unique rehabilitation approach and have the opportunity to ask any questions. If it feels right for you, we’ll then schedule our first session together.

Individualized Plan

During our first coaching session, we’ll thoroughly discuss your medical history and any side effects you’re experiencing. From there, we’ll set goals and develop a personalized coaching plan tailored to your needs. You’ll also receive education and individualized exercises.

Ongoing Support

During our follow-up sessions, we’ll build on your progress by introducing additional practical tools, personalized exercises, therapeutic techniques, and evidence-based education, each designed to help you move one step closer to your recovery and well-being goals.

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  • Real Stories, Real Support.

    I found Amanda online after being diagnosed as high risk for breast cancer. I knew I wanted to explore a preventative mastectomy, but I didn’t feel like I even knew what questions to ask my doctors. Amanda helped me from the very beginning of my mastectomy journey: holding space for my emotions, answering my questions, and ultimately helping me feel good in my body after my mastectomy.

    Our sessions were the reason I was able to get my full range of motion back and start feeling like myself again. If you’re considering breast cancer coaching and physical therapy, I highly recommend you reach out. You truly don’t know how much it could improve your life. She completes thorough assessments in each session, walks you through exercises that are specific to you, and sends you photos of each exercise so you can remember how to do them on your own. Amanda’s care, kindness, and compassion were life changing for me.

    Kalli P. 

  • Real Stories, Real Support.

    Working with Amanda supported my recovery after breast cancer treatment in many ways, physically and mentally, which, in turn, supported my emotional well-being. She was always attuned to my goals and described each exercise in the context of my overall plan. Knowing why I was doing each one was very motivating!

    Her expertise and experience also relieved me of mental energy I'd been spending researching and developing a plan to recover from surgery, minimize the risk of lymphedema, and move toward my goals (mobility, strength-training, lifting then shooting a basketball, etc.). Working through Amanda's progressive exercises actually made me excited to do planks--safely and with confidence!

    Her attention, care, expertise, patience, clarity, and follow-up made a world of difference in my recovery. I'm so thankful for everything Amanda does to help us cancer survivors help ourselves!

    E.B. 

Why work with me?

As possibly the only Certified Cancer Coach who is also an Oncology Physical Therapist and Certified Lymphedema Therapist, I offer far more than traditional breast cancer coaching.

My approach to cancer coaching is truly unique, as I combine evidence-based rehabilitation strategies with whole-person support to provide you with expert guidance on everything from therapeutic exercises and lymphedema management to addressing chest tightness and building emotional resilience.

During our sessions together, I will draw from my expertise as an Oncology Physical Therapist, Certified Lymphedema Therapist, and Certified Cancer Coach to help you optimize your recovery, overcome cancer-related side effects, and achieve your goals. Our virtual appointments together may include individualized exercises, research-backed education, demonstrations of scar release and self-release techniques, postural education, lymphatic drainage guidance, pain management strategies, and more.

The result? A personalized, empowering experience designed to help you overcome lingering side effects, reduce pain, rebuild strength and mobility, and truly feel at home in your body again, so you can fully embrace life beyond breast cancer.

I’m here to be your recovery partner; to celebrate your wins, help you navigate the rough patches, and keep you feeling capable, even when treatment or recovery gets tough.

With coaching, you can …

Reduce your pain, chest tightness, and physical discomfort

Regain your mobility, flexibility, and strength after surgery or radiation

Improve the comfort of your scars through guided techniques

Restore ease of movement in your upper body

Manage post-op swelling and complications

Lower your risk of developing lymphedema

Learn how to manage lymphedema with expert support

Ease cancer-related fatigue and feel more energized

Improve your posture and body awareness to reduce strain

Prevent long-term complications like frozen shoulder

Make simple, sustainable lifestyle changes to support your recovery

Manage stress with practical strategies

Return to physical activity safely and confidently

Navigate and minimize treatment-related side effects with guidance

Reconnect with your body and move with confidence

Enhance your overall well-being and quality of life

Ready to Begin?

Book your free 15-minute consultation call to explore how we can partner in your recovery. Whether you’re healing from surgery, managing lymphedema, or years into survivorship, I’m here to walk this path with you.

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Coaching is for you if …

  • You were just diagnosed, are currently undergoing active treatment or finished your treatment years ago. Coaching is for everyone, regardless of your stage of recovery.

  • You are living with treatment-related side effects, such as pain, decreased shoulder movement, chest tightness, fatigue, brain fog, weight gain, etc.  

  • You want to reduce your risk of developing lymphedema.

  • You want to have a better understanding of what your body has been through, so that you can optimize your healing and recovery.

  • You want to integrate health promoting behaviors to reduce your risk of recurrence.

  • You don’t have a specialized therapist in your area.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • A breast cancer coach is a trained professional who provides personalized support, education, and guidance to individuals navigating breast cancer or those with high-risk genetic mutations.

    What makes my approach unique is that I’m not only a Certified Breast Cancer Coach, but also an Oncology Physical Therapist and Certified Lymphedema Therapist. This allows me to offer a level of support that bridges the gap between medical care and whole-person healing, with a strong focus on physical recovery.

    As your coach, I help you navigate every stage of your breast cancer journey, whether you're preparing for surgery, undergoing treatment, recovering from a prophylactic surgery, or adjusting to life after treatment. My approach blends evidence-based rehabilitation strategies with compassionate coaching to address both the physical and emotional challenges you may face.

    This includes:

    • Managing pain, swelling, fatigue, and mobility issues

    • Teaching techniques for scar care, lymphedema prevention, and postural recovery

    • Supporting you in building strength, energy, and confidence in your body again

    • Helping you cope with the emotional impact of your diagnosis and treatment

    • Empowering you with practical tools and education tailored to your unique needs

    Ultimately, my goal is to help you feel supported, informed, and in control of your healing, so you can move forward with strength and confidence, beyond breast cancer.

  • Everyone! My coaching services are available to anyone, regardless of your location.

  • All of my coaching sessions are virtual. As your privacy and safety is my priority, I use a HIPAA-compliant platform (Zoom) which you can access from your phone, tablet, or computer.

  • How long we work together depends on your goals and what you hope to accomplish. Every person and situation is unique, so we will tailor our coaching schedule to meet YOUR needs!

  • Yes! I completed an in-depth certification in Holistic Cancer Coaching. Thus, I have extensive knowledge in an array of areas including conventional and integrative approaches to cancer treatment, management, supportive care, and survivorship.

    In addition to being a Certified Cancer Coach, I am also a Physical Therapist and Certified Lymphedema Therapist with extensive training in Breast Cancer Rehabilitation. My approach is thus very unique, as I use my different professional “hats” to see the FULL picture of your recovery.

  • All coaching services are billed as “breast cancer recovery coaching”.