Dr. Poppito sees all diagnoses and stages of cancer. Patients are provided tailored cancer-focused psycho-social supportive care, as well as psycho-education regarding diagnosis, treatment and healthy restorative self-care and healthy lifestyle management, in order to empower them to take care of themselves physically, mentally and spiritually through their cancer journey.
Dr. Poppito offers specialized cancer counseling services to support individuals and their loved ones affected by this disease. As a cancer therapist, she provides a safe and compassionate space to address the emotional, psychological, and spiritual challenges associated with a cancer diagnosis. Her integrative psych approach combines evidence-based therapies with holistic health practices to promote healing and well-being. Dr. Poppito offers counseling for individuals with cancer, as well as support for their families and loved ones.
The Integrative Behavioral Health Oncology Patient Evaluation (iBHOPE) Consultation Service was designed to be an integrated bio-psycho-spiritual supportive care service for cancer patients. The primary goal of iBHOPE consultation services is to help cancer patients manage common cancer-related physical, emotional and behavioral health challenges. The iBHOPE Consultation Service focuses on enhancing your overall health-related quality of life and well-being. The service also assists with life-transitional stressors that may interfere with daily functioning; thereby helping to promote overall health, quality of life and well-being for those it serves. All services are cancer-related in nature and specifically tailored to focus on enhancing cancer patients’ overall health-related quality of life and well-being.
ADJUSTMENT TO ILLNESS: Life Transitional Stress, Anxiety & Depression Management, Demoralization, Anticipatory (Death-) Anxiety, Survivorship ('new normal')
HEALTHY LIFESTYLE MANAGEMENT: Healthy Diet/Exercise, Restorative Self Care, Sleep/Fatigue Mgmt, Hormone/Mood Regulation, G.I. Issues, Treatment Related Inflammation
RELATIONAL/COMMUNICATION: Healthy Relational Coping & Communication, Marital/Family Counseling, Doctor-Patient Communication, Caregiver Burnout, Grief & Bereavement
The iBHOPE service requires a medical oncologist referral along with a updated medical note to initiate services. Dr. Poppito will develop a behavioral health plan that best suits your overall bio-psycho-social spiritual health care needs. You will be provided integrative cancer-related supportive care and brief solution-focused behavioral health interventions. This will help reduce cancer-related life-transitional stress, while enhancing healthy lifestyle, in order to bolster your overall vitality, immune functioning and quality of life.
Dr. Poppito is fellowship-trained in Psycho-Oncology from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (NYC) - under the pioneers of Psycho-Oncology. She provides supportive cancer-care to the wide spectrum of cancer patients across the continuum of cancer treatment and survivorship. Dr. Poppito sees patients across all cancer diagnoses (solid tumor and hematological) from stage I to IV and end-of-life cancer care. Over the last several years, Dr. Poppito has built a new state-of-the-art Behavioral Health Oncology Service at Baylor Sammons Cancer Center (Dallas TX) – based on an integrative bio-psycho-spiritual approach to taking care of cancer patients. Dr. Poppito has recently expanded this multi-dimensional service into VITA Therapy to empower cancer patients to live in the face of cancer – physically, mentally and spiritually through their cancer journey. She does so by providing tailored cancer-focused supportive care and psycho-education regarding healthy life-transitional coping and stress-reduction, healthy lifestyle management and healthy relational communication strategies.
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