Dr. Catherine Wade

You will find help with emotional impact, uncertainty, psychiatric assessment, and early coping of diagnosis. Gain skills for active treatment-related anxiety, depression, insomnia, treatment burden, medication/therapy integration. Guidance for grief, identity disruption, decision stress, or existential distress of recurrence or progression. Psychiatric support during survivorship for fear of recurrence, changed identity, relationship shifts, and return to life after treatment. For caregivers, support for adjustment to role strain, anticipatory grief, and emotional exhaustion. End of life/bereavement information & program resources.

I work with clients within a specialty of care for adults and older adults affected by cancer, serious medical illness, major transitions, caregiving, anticipatory grief, bereavement, or prolonged grief. I also treat related anxiety, depression, trauma, insomnia, adjustment difficulties, and existential distress with medication management when clinically appropriate.

Assessment, therapy, and treatment are adapted to the person with cancer or serious medical conditions and the stage of illness or loss.