Patricia Tikasingh
When stories are shared together, they become a source of strength, hope, and lasting change.
Credentials
CWI Integrative Cancer Coach Certification (2025)
1–3 years coaching experience
24 years as a patient counselor and patient navigator
Founder, SMARA Cancer Support Group (established 2011)
Location
Based in: San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago
Coaching format: Virtual and in-person
In-person location: In office (San Fernando)
Languages: English
Who I Work With
Cancer patients in active treatment, cancer survivors (post-treatment), caregivers, and individuals focused on cancer prevention and early detection.
My Specialties
Mindset and emotional support
Integrative and holistic approaches
Survivorship and life after cancer
Caregiver coaching
Cancer prevention and risk reduction
My Approach
At the heart of my coaching practice is a belief that healing and self-advocacy grow through honest storytelling and community connection. I work with survivors and groups by blending compassion, creativity, and practical strategy — turning lived experience into language that can be shared, witnessed, and acted on.
Through individual sessions, reflection circles, and visual practices, I create spaces where voices are honored, resilience is recognized, and advocacy becomes something carried by a community rather than a single person. When stories are lifted together, they build the kind of steady support that helps people move through what they are facing.
About Me
I am a 72-year-old woman, a 28-year cancer survivor with multiple recurrences and multiple surgeries behind me. That history is what brought me to this work, and what has kept me in it.
For the past 24 years I have worked alongside cancer patients — first as a patient counselor and patient navigator for about 15 years, then through programs and lectures on cancer awareness, early detection, and prevention, and through participating in screening clinics across my community. Every patient is different, and the work has always been to meet each person and their needs individually.
In 2011 I founded the SMARA Cancer Support Group, which is still active today. SMARA offers support in many forms depending on what our members need — practical, emotional, educational, and community-based. In 2024 I began the Cancer Wellness Coaching Course and completed it in 2025, formalizing in credential what I had been practicing for decades.
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