Breast Cancer Coach

2025 Update: Currently accepting new cancer coaching clients

Breast cancer recovery is a deeply personal and often overwhelming journey. The physical, mental, and social demands of your diagnosis can feel daunting, leaving you unsure where to begin or how to truly heal.

Yet how can anyone be expected to navigate their recovery alone—especially without the right tools or guidance?

What if you could add a little more certainty to the unpredictability of your cancer treatments? What if you could reclaim control of your health and your well-being? What if you could better support yourself to optimize your recovery and healing?

As a Certified Breast Cancer Coach, I’m here to help you navigate your breast cancer recovery with less uncertainty, more knowledge, and an enhanced quality of life. Through evidence-based education, therapeutic exercises, and personalized support, we’ll address your treatment-related side effects and improve your physical, mental, and social well-being. My goal is to help you reclaim your health, well-being, and ultimately your life after breast cancer.

You don’t have to face this journey 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 regain your mobility, strength, and independence, this is for you! Our coaching sessions may include:

  • Targeted Exercises: Learn safe and individualized exercises to improve your movement, flexibility, and strength and address post-surgical Axillary Web Syndrome/Cording.

  • Pain Management & Scar Care: Effectively reduce your pain and address scar tissue sensitivity/tightness with practical techniques and tools.

  • Specialized Tools: Learn how to optimize your surgical healing with self-lymphatic drainage massage, energy conservation techniques, compression bras, and more.

  • Lymphedema Risk Reduction: Minimize your chances of developing lymphedema after surgery or lymph node removal through personalized education and exercises.

Lymphedema Self-Management

If you’re dealing with arm and/or chest swelling or lymphedema and want to successfully optimize your lymphatic health, this is for you! Our coaching sessions may include:

  • Self-Management Guidance: Reduce and manage your swelling and skin changes using the most appropriate compression garments and tools.

  • Self-Lymphatic Drainage: Master self-lymphatic drainage massage with individualized techniques for your swelling and treatment history.

  • Individualized Exercises: Learn a daily routine of flexibility and strengthening exercises specifically designed to boost your lymphatic system.

  • Flare-up Risk Reduction: Learn about your individual risk factors for a flare-up and implement tools and daily practices to prevent the worsening of your swelling.

How It Works

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 coaching approach and have the opportunity to ask any questions. If coaching is 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.

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 chronic fatigue and building emotional resilience.

The result? A personalized, empowering experience that helps you feel stronger, more confident, and fully in control of your recovery and well-being during and 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.

Ready to Begin?

Book your free 15-minute consultation call to explore how we can partner in your recovery. Whether you’re seeking a therapeutic exercise program, tools to successfully prevent or manage lymphedema, or day-to-day lifestyle tips, I’m here to walk this path with you.

With coaching, you can …

Reduce your risk of recurrence

Improve the look and feel of your scars

Improve your movement and flexibility after surgery and radiation therapy

Reduce your risk of lymphedema

Learn how to successfully manage lymphedema

Reduce cancer-related fatigue

Increase your energy levels

Make simple and lasting lifestyle changes

Better manage your stress and negative emotions

Learn how to nourish your body and mind with the right foods to support your healing

Get back to physical activity safety

Build a trusting partnership between your body and mind

Learn how to manage treatment-related side effects

Improve your quality of life

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, guidance, and education to individuals diagnosed with breast cancer, as well as survivors and their families

    These coaches help patients navigate the complex journey of breast cancer, from diagnosis through treatment and into recovery, addressing both physical and emotional challenges.

    We offer a holistic approach to cancer care, focusing on the whole person rather than just the disease. We assist patients in various ways, including:

    • Helping manage physical and emotional side effects of treatments

    • Offering strategies for coping with the emotional impact of cancer

    • Assisting in setting short- and long-term goals

    • Supporting you throughout your recovery

    By providing individualized care and support, we aim to empower patients with the knowledge and tools needed to improve their quality of life, reduce the risk of recurrence, and navigate the path to recovery with greater confidence and understanding.

  • Cancer coaching is more forward leaning. I meet you where you currently are, and help you get to where you want to be. Together, we will help you move forward, by determining your health and wellness goals, and creating a personalized plan to help you achieve those goals and address any treatment-related side effects that may be holding you back.

  • 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.

  • That is completely up to you! 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!

    As coaching takes place over time, I typically suggest meeting every week or every other week for a period of 3 months, upon which we will then re-evaluate our goals and plan. However, there is NO time commitment. I am open to anything that helps you achieve your goals. If one session works best for you, then that works for me.

  • Yes, absolutely! 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 “coaching”.