Prostate Cancer UK - Counselling

Living with prostate cancer can be hard to deal with emotionally, as well as physically and can affect how you feel. If you’re feeling down or worried and are finding it hard to deal with things, we’re here for you.

Counselling service

PCUK are piloting a free counselling service for men with a prostate cancer diagnosis and their partners. This service could help improve your quality of life by:

• providing personalised support that is tailored to your circumstances
• reducing the sense of fear, anxiety and/or depression that you might be feeling
• improving how you cope emotionally with living with cancer or after cancer
• helping you feel empowered to manage your own emotions
• increasing your confidence and motivation.

Our qualified counsellors are members of a professional body like NCS or BACP and have experience supporting a wide range of people in different situations.

How to request counselling?

Call our helpline (0800 074 8383) to discuss whether counselling suits your needs with one of our Specialist Nurses. If it's not right for you, we will help find more suitable support. You can also ask all the questions you need answers to, or just talk. Our nurses have time for you.

Emotional support handbook

If you feel counselling isn’t right for you, or you’re already getting mental health support from somewhere else, our handbook might be more suitable for you. It’s been designed to guide you through the emotional challenges you might be experiencing and offers simple exercises to manage short-term anxiety at key stages of your diagnosis and treatment.

We find it’s easiest to print it out and use as a handbook, but you can also grab a pen and paper to complete the activities whilst looking at the instructions on your screen. Download your handbook.