Program: Therapy
If you are a breast cancer patient or survivor and are struggling with: diagnosis anxiety, survivorship issues, survivor’s guilt, family concerns, situational anxiety or depression, you may qualify for low or no cost counseling.
Breast cancer patients and survivors in need of counseling may be able to get assistance with co-pays and cost of therapy through a partnership between Keepers of the Flame Foundation and Brother’s Brother Foundation.
Eligibility:
- A Breast Cancer Patient in Georgia
- Require Financial Assistance to Therapy (below 400% FPL). Quick Calculator FPL
How it Works:
- Patient Completes Digital Application above
- A notification will automatically be sent to preferred counselor for their agreement in participation
- KotF will review applications and notify both counselor and patient of approval.
- Once approved, Patients may schedule their first session.
- Note: Patients can be approved for 5 sessions at a time – to be used in a 3-month period. If not used in 3 months, funds will be reallocated to the program. However, patients can reapply. If patients use all 5 allocated sessions, they may also reapply for a second set. Three sets (or 15 sessions) may be awarded in total per patient per year.
Finding a Counselor- Options:
1) Choose from a list of our current partners on the application.
Advantage: Our partners have already been briefed on the program, are familiar with the process, and have agreed to participate. Choosing from our current list of partners can help streamline the process for you. Be sure to check back regularly, as this list will continue to grow.
| Counseling Partner | POC | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Building Blocks Family Counseling | Ashley Moore | info@buildingblocks.solutions | 912-349-8043 |
| Georgia Outreach | Deanna Jenks | officemanager@georgiaoutreach.com | 912-355-3881 |
| Water’s Edge | Lisa Gardner | gardner@watersedgecounseling.com | 912-319-5552 |
2) Use your current counselor/therapist
Advantage: You can continue seeing your mental health provider. Simply provide us with their business’s name, counselor’s name and email on the application, and we will connect with them to see if they’ll partner with us and allow us to cover the cost.
3) Use Psychology Today to find a counselor that meets your needs.
Advantage: You can view counselor’s profiles, specialties, and locations to find one that you think would be a good fit for you. Similarly to option 2 above, we’ll need their business’s name, counselor’s name and email on the application, in order to connect with them to see if they’ll partner with us, allowing us to cover the cost.
4) If you don’t have a preference.
If you don’t have a preference, we recommend picking someone from our current list of partners since they’re already familiar with the program and participating in it.
Note to Healthcare Providers
Please share and help breast cancer patients with our brief digital application above. Often times they’re on tilt when diagnosed and could use the support. Although they’re welcome to complete it on their own, helping them through it at an office visit would help to normalize the emotional component to a cancer diagnosis and break down barriers, allowing our local patients to get the support they need.
Note to Counselors/Therapists:
We’d love to feature you! If your business would like to partner with us and be featured on the Preferred Counselor list, please reach out to our executive director at: joyce@togetherweweather.org.
If you have a new or established client who has been diagnosed with breast cancer, let them know about our Therapy Financial Assistance Program. Have them select your company under preferred counselor (or enter it under ‘other’). After patient submits their application, an email will be sent to you with final portion of the application. This lets us that you’re able to accommodate them. Keepers of the Flame Admin will then review the applications and notify both you and the patient when approved.