Mental Health Journeys
Your Mental Health and Oncology Journey
Emotional support through every stage of the cancer journey
A cancer diagnosis can affect emotional wellbeing as well as physical health. Life Path Health supports patients and families through the psychological and emotional challenges that may arise from diagnosis to remission, advanced illness and bereavement.
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Understanding your journey
Cancer affects more than physical health
The emotional impact of cancer can change throughout the journey. Patients and families may experience different needs at diagnosis, during treatment, in remission, with advanced illness, or through bereavement. Mental health support can form part of caring for the whole person and those closest to them.Your journey may change over time
Emotional needs can be different at each stage. Support can adapt as circumstances, treatment and family needs change.Diagnosis
Making sense of a diagnosis and the emotions, uncertainty and changes that may come with it.Treatment
Supporting emotional wellbeing while navigating treatment, adjustment and the impact on everyday life.Remission & adjustment
Adapting to life after treatment and the emotional changes that may continue beyond active cancer care.Advanced illness & bereavement
Compassionate emotional support through advanced illness, loss, grief and bereavement.Every person's experience is different. These stages are not intended to suggest that everyone follows the same path or requires the same type of support.
Support along your journey
The right support, at the right time
Mental health support can look different for every person. Depending on individual needs and circumstances, support may include education, connection, professional guidance and, where clinically indicated, more intensive care.Emotional & practical support
What might you need support with?
Cancer can affect patients and the people around them in different ways. Support can respond to the concerns that matter most to you and your family.Cancer affects more than one person
Support for you. Support for your family.
Cancer can affect relationships, family roles and emotional wellbeing. Different people within the same family may need different kinds of support at different times.
When more support is needed
Sometimes more intensive mental health support may help
Inpatient mental healthcare is considered according to individual clinical needs and is not a routine part of cancer treatment.
Your journey continues
Support can change as your needs change
Emotional needs do not always end when treatment ends or circumstances change. Whether you are adjusting after treatment, living with ongoing illness, supporting someone you love or navigating loss, reaching out for mental health support can be part of caring for your wellbeing.Take the first step
You don't have to know exactly what support you need.
If you are concerned about your emotional or mental wellbeing, or about someone you care for, reaching out can be the first step towards finding appropriate support.