Leukemia and Lymphoma Foundation

Our in-house counsellor provides emotional support to our beneficiaries and/or their family members to cope with anxiety, grief and loss, bereavement and other forms of emotional distresses that might arise from beneficiaries’ medical condition. Confidentiality is of utmost importance in all our counseling relationships. Counselling sessions are scheduled on an appointment basis and are conducted in our counseling room at the Foundation.

Home visits are also offered as an alternative when beneficiaries are feeling too physically ill to travel to the Foundation for counselling. The in-house counselor will also conduct home visits to assess our beneficiaries’ coping capacities in their home environment, family dynamics and financial situation.

If needed, the counsellor can link the beneficiaries to other resources in the community.

Beneficiaries’ Support Programme:

Beneficiaries’ Support Programme is a service by Leukemia and Lymphoma Foundation for our beneficiaries who are newly diagnosed or suffering a relapse of their medical condition. The support and friendship that the beneficiaries receive from their befrienders will help them to build resilience and strengthen their inner resources so that they are better equipped to withstand the negative emotions and/or doubts which may arise during their treatment period prior to remission.

Each befriending relationship will be unique as befrienders will be specially matched with the beneficiaries according to their life experiences and/or backgrounds.
Befrienders will be from diverse backgrounds and they will be volunteers who are above 21 years of age, have a heart for our beneficiaries and enjoy befriending them. Befrienders are required to have a basic certification in counselling.

LLF will work hand-in-hand with the befrienders to provide training that will equip the befrienders with skills to build strong befriending relationships with their beneficiaries. Prior to the start of a befriending relationship, all befrienders are required to attend a briefing cum training session. Support groups and on-going training during the befriending process will be provided to help befrienders have more meaningful sessions with their beneficiaries. This in turn gives befrienders valuable learning opportunities for their own personal development.

In the long run, this programme can be extended to non-beneficiaries.