There is no need to hurry. When "stay positive" starts to hurt,
there is a place you can begin exactly as you are.
When people hear "coaching" they usually picture a sports or business coach. This is something else entirely. Nobody tells you to try harder. No goals are set. It is a quiet space for facing where you are now and finding, together, the answers already inside you.
| CounsellingMental health support | This pageCancer Journey CoachingSupra Mentor |
Business and sports coachingCoaching in general |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Purpose | To heal emotional pain and recover | To know yourself deeply and build a self that holds steady whatever happens | To reach goals and raise performance |
| Who holds the answers |
The professional guides with expertise | You do. The coach draws them out. The answers are already yours. |
The coach sets strategy and direction |
| Told to try harder? |
No (recovery comes first) |
Never. We start from "you are enough as you are". |
Yes (growth is the point) |
| Combining | Can run alongside coaching | Works even better combined with counselling | Not well suited to combine with cancer care |
| Typical price (per session) |
¥5,000–¥15,000 Online from ¥4,000 |
¥9,800 per coaching session (limited-time price) Workshop ¥2,500 First and only in Japan |
¥8,000–¥30,000 Typically from ¥10,000 |
An approach developed by the Cancer Journey Institute. It works not only on the body but on the whole inner life.
Anger, sadness, fear, anxiety. Without denying any of it, you come to see clearly: this is where I am now.
You notice your patterns of thought and let go of the beliefs that were binding you. A new perspective opens.
What truly matters to you? A deep process of reflection that reopens the question of meaning and purpose.
The three months are not steps 1, 2, 3 stacked up; they are one road towards a single arrival. Where it leads is written below.
First you meet the self that is here right now. It starts with listening to your feelings, your thoughts, your body. It is fine if none of it comes out neatly.
What you once needed but now only weighs on you — fears, beliefs, roles — you set down quietly. In setting them down, your strength returns.
You meet your own strength, values and possibility. People who have walked these three months describe real change.
Read a personal storyThis is where the three months lead. We are not counting weeks; we are aiming for this state. No rush — your pace is the right pace.
Coaches certified by the Cancer Journey Institute (USA) who have completed ICF-standard training.
Satoko Shimazu — Cancer Journey Coach
When I was diagnosed with a brain tumour I gathered a great deal of information. But the more I read, the larger a different question grew: how am I supposed to live from here? My reason for being, my worth, everything I had held dear — it all felt unsteady.
After the illness I tried to live as a "new me, reborn", because comparing myself to who I had been frightened me. What coaching showed me was that the core I had always cared about had not changed at all. Parts of me did change. But that is not a new self; it is an evolved one. Changing is not a rejection of who you were. To evolve is for the person you already are to go on becoming deeper.
In the United States it has more than ten years behind it. It is still little known in Japan, but around the world it is widely used to support people living with illness.
The programme is used at the UCSF Brain Tumor Center — one of the world's leading medical institutions — and at hospitals and cancer centres across the United States.
It was the first coaching programme for supporting people affected by cancer to meet the accreditation standards of the ICF. Passing that rigorous review is an internationally recognised mark of quality and expertise.
Trained directly by Shariann Tom, master coach at the Cancer Journey Institute, and the first and only coach in Japan to pass its examination.
Cancer Journey Coaching is not only American. Coaches are being trained and working in many countries.
Founder of the Cancer Journey Institute — words from the person who first created this programme.
From a session with Satoko as her coach. Janet describes the unexpected moment of realisation that came in the conversation.
Living with her own illness, she speaks about what the cancer journey really is. Her words carry the depth of someone who has faced living itself.
At Supra Mentor four fields work together. Alongside the coaches there are psychologists, peer supporters and beauty counsellors, all connected, so that as your situation changes you can move smoothly to the support you need.
A first step towards finding, together, how you want to live.
The first 30 minutes are free, in Japanese or English.
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Whether you want someone to keep walking with you, or to sort out your next step.
Come to us whenever you like, at your own pace.