Contact Bowel Cancer Australia's Bowel Care Psychosocial Support Team
EMAIL - OR - CALL 1800 727 336
| Bowel Care Psychosocial Support Team - providing telehealth support nationwide
Receiving a bowel cancer diagnosis can be a life altering event causing significant stress and anxiety for yourself and loved ones.
In addition to the implications this can have on your physical health and wellbeing, it can also be distressing and complex to cope with day-to-day, as it affects your (and your family’s) life practically, financially, socially, emotionally and psychologically.
Research shows that interventions focusing on holistic wellbeing have positive short and long-term effects by reducing anxiety and depression and improving quality of life.
Bowel Cancer Australia’s Bowel Care Psychosocial Support Team support patients and their loved ones who have been affected by bowel cancer, by providing holistic specialist psychosocial care at all stages throughout the care continuum - from diagnosis, treatment, recovery and living beyond bowel cancer, to palliative care and bereavement, depending on your circumstances.
Our psychoscoial support team, alongside your treating medical team, can offer specialist telehealth support that addresses your psycosocial needs and tose of your loved ones.
Our Bowel Care Psychosocial Support Team can help with:
- coping with a bowel cancer diagnosis
- managing fear, anxiety and depression
- managing relationships under stress
- navigating hopelessness
- living well beyond bowel cancer
- end of life
- grief and loss
You can email Bowel Cancer Australia's Bowel Care Oncology Social Worker any time for advice.
Please send your questions using the form below and you will receive a response within 5 working days.
Alternatively, please call Bowel Cancer Australia's Helpline on 1800 727 336.
