A diagnosis touches more than one life
Virtual cancer counselling across British Columbia and Ontario — we work with cancer patients, survivors, caregivers and families impacted by cancer.
Whether you’re facing cancer yourself or supporting someone you love, there can be space here for what this experience asks of you, too.
Are you facing cancer, caring for someone you love, adjusting to life after cancer, or grieving a loss?
You don’t have to navigate it alone.
Cancer affects more than physical health. It can reshape your relationships, your sense of self, and the way you imagine the future — for both the person diagnosed and those who love them.
At Rising Minds, you’ll find compassionate support to help you navigate the emotional impact of cancer, wherever you are in the journey.
You don’t have to hold it all together. You don’t have to have all the answers. You deserve a space where you can simply be.
What we can work through together
We make space for the parts that often go unspoken — not just “staying positive,” but the full reality of what cancer brings up.
Diagnosis & Treatment
Navigating the Weight of Cancer
A cancer diagnosis can bring fear, uncertainty, and emotional exhaustion. Counselling offers space to process what you’re experiencing, navigate treatment challenges, and explore what you need along the way—without pressure to be strong or positive all the time.
caregiver
Caring for Yourself While Caring for Others
Supporting someone with cancer can be emotionally and physically demanding. Counselling offers space to explore exhaustion, guilt, worry, and the often unspoken challenges of caregiving, while making room for your own needs, wellbeing, and emotional support.
Survivorship & Identity
Finding Yourself Beyond Cancer
Life after cancer treatment can bring unexpected emotions and challenges. Counselling offers space to explore lingering fears, changes in identity and relationships, and the uncertainty of what comes next, while helping you reconnect with yourself and what matters most.
Couples & Families
Navigating Cancer Together
Cancer can affect relationships, family roles, communication, and connection. Counselling offers a supportive space to explore different emotions and needs, navigate changing family dynamics, and find ways to communicate, understand, and support one another through uncertainty.
Grief & Loss
Making Space for Grief
Cancer can bring many forms of loss, including changes to health, independence, relationships, and hopes for the future. Counselling offers a compassionate space to acknowledge these experiences, process difficult emotions, and explore what grief means for you.
Terminal Prognosis
Finding Meaning in the Time Ahead
Facing a terminal prognosis can bring profound uncertainty, fear, and difficult questions. Counselling offers a compassionate space to explore what matters most, navigate conversations with loved ones, and consider questions of meaning, legacy, dignity, and living on your own terms.
Meet Erica
Erica Harris is the founder of Rising Minds and a Registered Clinical Counsellor in British Columbia and Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) in Ontario.
Her perspective on cancer support is shaped by both her counselling training and her own experience of serious illness, cancer treatment, survivorship, and significant health adversity. She brings this lived understanding to her work while recognizing that every person’s cancer experience, relationships, values, and needs are uniquely their own.
Erica is a terminal cancer survivor, bringing both professional training and lived experience to her work with clients facing cancer and serious illness.
Simple, transparent pricing
Effective September 2026. Fees are subject to change with notice. A sliding fee scale may be available for clients experiencing financial hardship, at the therapist’s discretion.
Sliding-Fee Scale and Low-Cost Options
We believe financial barriers shouldn’t prevent you from exploring support. Sliding-fee and lower-cost options may be available. We welcome open conversations about affordability and can explore options with you based on availability.
Individual counselling
50 min · 80 min
$170 · $225
Couples counselling
50 min · 80 min
$200 · $265
Family counselling
50 min · 80 min
$230 · $305
Group therapy
Ranging from $89 to $110 per session, depending on the group.
$89 · $110
Navigating Cancer? Have You Considered Group Counselling?
Whether you’re facing cancer, navigating survivorship, or supporting someone you love, there’s a group designed with your experience in mind.
Shared Experiences
Connect with others navigating similar challenges, emotions, and uncertainties.
Meaningful Connection
Opportunities to share stories, exchange perspectives, and build supportive relationships.
Six-Week Support Groups
Short-term, professionally facilitated counselling in a welcoming small-group setting.
Accessible & Affordable Care
Sliding-scale and lower-cost options available. We welcome open conversations about fees and finding an option that works for you.
Support you can access from home, the hospital, or another private setting
When you’re managing appointments, treatment, fatigue, or caregiving, the last thing you need is one more place to be.
Support you can access wherever you have privacy
Treatment, medical appointments, fatigue, caregiving, and recovery can make getting to another appointment feel like one more demand.
Sessions are offered securely online, allowing you to connect from home or another private setting where you feel comfortable speaking openly.
Virtual counselling is available to clients located in British Columbia or Ontario at the time of their session.
No commute. No additional waiting room. Just a private place to connect from wherever you are.
Cancer Support FAQs
Can you support individuals, couples, and families affected by cancer?
Yes. Cancer can affect the entire family, and Rising Minds offers individual, couples, and family counselling for people navigating the emotional and relational impact of cancer.
The type of therapeutic relationship is established at the outset. When Erica is working with someone individually, she maintains that individual therapeutic relationship rather than also becoming the individual, couples, or family therapist for people closely connected to that client.
If a partner, caregiver, or family member would benefit from their own counselling, Erica can help connect them with appropriate resources or provide referrals to another therapist, allowing each person to have a confidential and independent space for support.
Does cancer counselling include medical advice or health recommendations?
No. Cancer support counselling at Rising Minds focuses on emotional and relational support and is separate from medical advice, treatment decisions, or health recommendations.
If you need medical or other specialized professional guidance related to your diagnosis or treatment, Erica can encourage you to connect with an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.
Is counselling covered by insurance?
Looking for non-psychotherapy health coaching or advocacy support? These services are offered separately through Rise Today Consulting and are distinct from counselling and psychotherapy at Rising Minds.