Counseling for People with Cancer and Other Life-Challenging Conditions                    

Survival carries a message. It tells you that you have strength and endurance to make your life more satisfying. It teaches you to fill each precious moment with meaning.

How Therapy Helps

After an initial consultation, Florence will create a recovery program tailored to your individual needs. All programs are based on the understanding that healing is a process of becoming whole physically, psychologically, emotionally and spiritually. With her psycho-spiritual approach, Florence will guide you through your program so that you can manage your own recovery. Counseling sessions use creative visualization, stress management, and relaxation techniques, meditation, dream work with imaginal exercises, hypnotherapy, guided imagery, journal-writing, art therapy, selected reading, nutritional counseling, and personalized audio tapes.

When needed, Florence draws on her extensive resources for referral to specialized medical treatment, both traditional and alternative. Throughout the therapy, clients work with Florence to set goals and, periodically, to assess their progress.                                                                                                                                           Return to Top 

Who Uses These Counseling Services

• Survivors of life-challenging medical conditions including cancer, AIDS, multiple sclerosis, chronic fatigue syndrome, and debilitating accidents.
• Families and friends of survivors.
• People in need of bereavement counseling
• People who have come to an emotional crossroads in their lives, and who welcome change as an opportunity for growth.
• People seeking wellness counseling to support physical and emotional health.
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  How Sessions Are Run

  Therapy sessions are tailored to meet each client's needs, goals, temperament and lifestyle. Held in a nurturing and nonjudgmental environment, the sessions encourage free choice in medical treatments, life-style changes, and spiritual and emotional growth. Florence's style blends her professional counseling skills with the focused empathy of one who has experienced the stages of fear, denial, depression, anger and, ultimately, the acceptance that comes with survival from life-threatening illness.

  Clients can choose individual or group sessions, or a combination of both.
  
  Telephone counseling is available nationally.
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  Florence Klein: A Therapist Who Speaks With Experience

  A cancer survivor for over a decade, Florence's therapeutic method grew from her personal experience and her formal training. Her own history of transforming her life-threatening experience into a life-enhancing experience led her toward her B.S. in Mental Health and Human Services. Florence is certified as a facilitator and counselor by Exceptional Cancer Patients, Inc. (ECaP), founded by physician and author Dr. Bernie Siegel. Most recently, she was certified by Harvard Medical School for participating in Dr. Herbert Benson's course in "Clinical Training in Mind-Body Medicine". She is also a certified hypnotherapist.

  Florence has appeared on NBC television with Gabe Pressman in "The Truth About Cancer", on ABC television with Morton Downey Jr., and on WPIX television with talk show host Nola Roper. For over three years, she led the American Cancer Society's weekly Hoping and Coping Support Group in Brooklyn. She participates regularly in a panel at Mt. Sinai Medical School on the value of combining alternative and allopathic medicine. Florence has lectured at learning centers throughout the New York City area, including Manhattan's Learning Alliance, The Council Center for Senior Citizens, Brooklyn Public Library and Long Beach Public Library.
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  You can call Florence Klein at (718) 996-8011, or click HERE to send an EMail!