FAQs

Insurance covers all medical and genetic counseling appointments.

Therapy and Coaching clients are self-pay through check, cash or online payment service such as PayPal, Venmo or Zelle.

I see newly diagnosed cancer patients and their families, patients who are concerned about their risk of breast cancer, patients with all forms of breast disease including pain, masses, and cancer.

In my private practice I support people who desire coaching and/or IFS therapy.

I am also privileged to help many patients and families with end of life issues and with helping them make their personal choices regarding their healthcare.

I trained at The Coaches Training Institute and I wholeheartedly believe in their response: “CTI coaching holds that people are naturally creative, resourceful and whole – completely capable of finding their own answers to whatever challenges they face. The job of a Co-Active Coach® is to ask powerful questions, listen and empower to elicit the skills and creativity a client already possesses, rather than instruct or advise.”

Coaching allows people to live life in accordance with their values.

Coaching is done most commonly on the phone in 2-3 one hour sessions per month.

Coaching is based on your present life and getting to the future that you want. Therapy is about healing the past to be more comfortable in the present and operating from a calm, clear, connected sense of your Self.  I have professional training in coaching and therapy.

One expertise is in genetic testing. I counsel people who may have inherited forms of cancer and help them decide if they need or want testing and help them understand the results and what they can do.  I also travel the United States teaching other surgeons, physicians and health care providers regarding who and how to test for genetic-related cancers.

I also support families and patients with end of life issues and navigating the health care system with new or chronic medical diagnoses.  I specialize in healthcare advocacy for cancer patients but have helped people with a variety of health issues.

For breast issues we meet at my offices at:

Beth Israel Lahey Health-Plymouth, 275 Sandwich Street, Plymouth, MA 02360

Phone (508) 746-1259

Coaching,  healthcare advocacy and therapy connections are made via phone, computer or in person at my home office or in Brookline.

The Brookline office is accessible by the Green Line and bus routes.  Both the Brookline and my home office have ample parking and are handicapped accessible.

Coaching and therapy sessions are 45 to 60 minutes long. Medical and surgical appointments range from 15-60 minutes. Each patient and client receives focused, individual attention from me.  For my coaching, therapy and healthcare advocacy clients & patients I am available by phone, email and text.

Yes.

I can work with you and hospice to help you through end of life issues.

I speak about self-care, breast disease and cancer, yoga, cancer genetics, stress management, yoga and meditation.

I teach about tools for self-care and nurturing ourselves and others and stressing less.

I teach yoga classes based on vinyasa flow and trauma-sensitive techniques.

I also am grateful to teach medical students from UMASS and students from MCPHS and residents from Harvard’s BI/Deaconess, UMASS and from Tufts/St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center surgical residency programs.