Psychosocial Support Program

Coping with cancer and its treatments is challenging. Baptist Health Miami Cancer Institute offers an extensive psychosocial support program for you and your family when you receive a cancer diagnosis. Psychosocial support addresses your mental, emotional, social and spiritual needs so you can focus on what’s most important — healing.

Members of our Psychosocial Oncology team include:

• Chaplains
• Licensed clinical social workers
• Neuropsychologists
• Psychiatrists

They work together to help you and your caregivers cope and move forward effectively.

How We Help

Cancer treatment can come with more than just physical side effects — it can also affect your mental health and the mental health of your caregivers. Our Psychosocial Oncology team can help you and those caring for you with:

• Anxiety
• Body image issues
• Cancer-related fatigue
• Claustrophobia related to scans or radiation treatment
• Cognitive problems resulting from treatment, also called “chemo brain”
• Depression
• Fear of cancer recurrence
• Insomnia
• Spiritual or existential crisis
• Stress

Services and Treatments We Provide

The Psychosocial Oncology team at Baptist Health Miami Cancer Institute provides a variety of psychosocial services and interventions. These include:

• Our Brain Fitness Lab — The fitness lab helps our team diagnose and manage cancer-related cognitive dysfunction.
• Counseling and therapy — These services are available to patients and caregivers. They can help address anxiety, depression, fear of cancer recurrence and insomnia.
• Medical treatment — We help find the right medicines to treat anxiety, depression, fatigue and insomnia.
• Mind-body therapies — Mind-body therapies address how your mind and body interact and impact wellness. Treatments we offer to improve these interactions include meditation, mindfulness training, deep breathing techniques, muscle relaxation exercises, movement classes (yoga and tai chi) and exercise classes.
• Pastoral counseling — We have chaplains representing several religious faiths. They’ve received special training to provide emotional and spiritual support to patients and their families.
• Social work services — Our social workers provide emotional support for patients and caregivers. They offer assistance with community resources, workplace and school issues, advanced directives and more.
• Stress management and resiliency training — We provide Stress Management and Resiliency Training (SMART) workshops for eligible patients.
• Support Groups — Our support groups may help you reduce anxiety and overcome feelings of helplessness.