MIND-BODY AND EMOTIONAL SUPPORT
Holistic Emotional Support & Inner Healing for Cancer Recovery
Gentle, integrative support to help you process emotions, reduce stress, and feel more grounded during and after cancer - using trusted mind-body and somatic healing therapies.
Healing the Mind, Supporting the Body
Emotional wellbeing is a key part of healing. Our mind-body therapies gently support you through the emotional weight of a cancer diagnosis, treatment, and recovery. Whether you're feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, or seeking peace, we help you process what’s happening — and reconnect with calm, clarity, and strength from within.
Why You Might Use Mind-Body & Emotional Support
Cancer doesn’t just affect the body - it impacts your thoughts, emotions, identity, and sense of control. Mind-body and emotional therapies don’t replace your treatment plan, but they play a powerful role in how grounded, resilient, and emotionally supported you feel. Here’s how these approaches can support your overall wellbeing:
1. Reduce anxiety, fear, and emotional overwhelm
Mind-body techniques like breath-work, meditation, and guided imagery help calm the nervous system, regulate stress responses, and give you tools to navigate uncertainty with more ease.
2. Rebuild emotional strength and confidence
Working with a trained emotional support therapist gives you space to process grief, trauma, fear, or frustration — so you feel more equipped to cope, connect, and move forward.
3. Improve sleep, energy, and mental clarity
Calming the mind has a ripple effect on the body. By reducing emotional stress and improving nervous system balance, many people experience better rest, less fatigue, and clearer thinking.
4. Reconnect with yourself — and your sense of hope
Mind-body therapies create space for reflection, healing, and reconnection. They help you remember that you’re more than your diagnosis, and support a sense of purpose, calm, and possibility.
Meet the Practitioners
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Adrienne Gulliver – Life Strategist
With decades of experience, Adrienne works with people facing life-changing diagnoses, uncertainty, and identity shifts. Her sessions gently help you unpack what's weighing you down emotionally - whether it’s fear, grief, or a sense of loss - and guide you toward clarity, calm, and inner strength. Her strategic coaching blends emotional insight, practical mindset tools, and deep personal support tailored to each phase of your journey.
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Dragan & Sasha Petrovic – Healthy Life NZ
Dragan and Sasha support people experiencing cancer through The Journey™ and other evidence-based transformational techniques. Their work focuses on identifying and releasing emotional blocks stored in the body - helping you process trauma, reconnect with your inner resources, and support the healing process on a cellular level. Their approach is gentle, client-led, and deeply compassionate, offering space to feel seen, supported, and empowered.
Clinical Evidence & Research
Mind-Body & Emotional Support is backed by a growing body of research showing the vital role emotional wellbeing plays in cancer care. From reducing treatment-related anxiety and depression to supporting immune function and quality of life, mind-body therapies are now recognised as valuable complements to medical treatment.
Scientific evidence highlights how emotional resilience, stress regulation, and trauma resolution can positively influence the body’s healing processes. Practices like guided visualisation, emotional release, breath-work, and somatic awareness are used to reduce physiological stress, support nervous system regulation, and promote a sense of safety and empowerment.
While emotional therapies are not a cure for cancer, they can significantly improve wellbeing, especially when tailored by experienced practitioners and integrated with oncology care. That’s exactly how they’re offered through our trusted providers at Cancer Care.
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Mind–body therapies like guided imagery, meditation, and relaxation techniques have been shown to reduce anxiety, depression, and pain in people undergoing cancer treatment. Read more here
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Tendency to suppress emotions has been linked to poorer immune function, greater mood disturbance, and even increased mortality among cancer patients. Read more here
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Research in psychoneuroimmunology shows that emotional states affect immune function, hormone levels, and inflammatory responses — all critical to recovery and resilience. Read more here
Real Support, Real Stories
How This Applies to Your Care
Trusted providers, like Adrienne Gulliver (Life Strategist) and Dragan & Sasha Petrovic (Healthy Life NZ), use integrative and research-informed approaches to support emotional resilience, reduce stress, and strengthen your inner resources during cancer treatment. Their personalised guidance helps you:
Process trauma and emotional blocks that may affect healing
Reduce stress, anxiety, and depression — common during treatment
Support immune and nervous system regulation through emotional release
Reconnect with purpose, clarity and a sense of inner peace
Complement medical treatment with tools that support your mindset and mental wellbeing — because healing is more than physical
Ready to Feel Calmer, More Grounded and Emotionally Supported?
Whether you're navigating treatment side effects, trauma, or the emotional toll of a cancer diagnosis, you're not alone. Our trusted providers walk alongside you with therapies that support your mental and emotional wellbeing — helping you feel more in control, more hopeful, and more like yourself again.