Children’s Cancer Center
Family Counseling · About this organization
What you get
Free individual, marriage, child, family, and grief counseling with licensed counselors, in person or by video.
How to start
Fill in the New Patient Referral form and review its consent terms. Watch for a welcome email and ask about counseling appointments.
Good to know
- This scheduled counseling service is not described as emergency or crisis care.
The details, as published
Children’s Cancer Center connects enrolled Greater Tampa Bay pediatric oncology families with no-cost individual, marital, child, family, and grief counseling through licensed area counseling partners. Current materials say professional therapy is offered in person and virtually and can support the diagnosed child, parents, siblings, or the family unit. Access begins with the New Patient Referral form and is limited to families whose child is treated at one of five named Tampa Bay hospital partners. The site does not publish a session cap, appointment timing, counselor availability, or detailed clinical intake rules.
What help you may get
Practical Items And Home Help
Family Counseling — practical items and home help
Children’s Cancer Center connects enrolled Greater Tampa Bay pediatric oncology families with no-cost individual, marital, child, family, and grief counseling through licensed area counseling partners. Current materials say professional therapy is offered in person and virtually and can support the diagnosed child, parents, siblings, or the family unit. Access begins with the New Patient Referral form and is limited to families whose child is treated at one of five named Tampa Bay hospital partners. The site does not publish a session cap, appointment timing, counselor availability, or detailed clinical intake rules.
Noncash help
Can cover
- Child therapy
- Family therapy
- Grief counseling
- In-person or virtual professional mental health therapy
- Individual therapy
- Marital therapy
Does not cover
- Emergency psychiatric evaluation, crisis response, or guaranteed immediate appointments
- Counseling is provided at no cost through program partners; this is not a cash grant.
- No session entitlement, cap, duration, or renewal rule is published.
Mental Health Therapy
Family Counseling — mental health therapy
Children’s Cancer Center connects enrolled Greater Tampa Bay pediatric oncology families with no-cost individual, marital, child, family, and grief counseling through licensed area counseling partners. Current materials say professional therapy is offered in person and virtually and can support the diagnosed child, parents, siblings, or the family unit. Access begins with the New Patient Referral form and is limited to families whose child is treated at one of five named Tampa Bay hospital partners. The site does not publish a session cap, appointment timing, counselor availability, or detailed clinical intake rules.
Noncash help
Can cover
- Child therapy
- Family therapy
- Grief counseling
- In-person or virtual professional mental health therapy
- Individual therapy
- Marital therapy
Does not cover
- Emergency psychiatric evaluation, crisis response, or guaranteed immediate appointments
- Counseling is provided at no cost through program partners; this is not a cash grant.
- No session entitlement, cap, duration, or renewal rule is published.
Check the main eligibility rules
Diagnosis
B-ALL is in scope. The program serves pediatric oncology families at named Tampa Bay hospitals, including families of a child age 0–18 with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Age
The program does not publish an age limit.
- The referral route is for pediatric hematology and oncology families, but the counseling materials publish no numerical patient or participant age limit.
Treatment status
No specific treatment status is published.
- Counseling is delivered through licensed area counseling centers.
- The family must be connected to one of the five hospital partners and enroll through the Children's Cancer Center referral process.
- The 2024–2025 annual report states that counseling services are provided at no cost; no income test is published.
Where you live and where your child is treated
Where your family lives
You must live in: Programs serve pediatric-oncology families connected to Greater Tampa Bay; confirm the exact local or hospital boundary..
- No separate residence rule is published; eligibility is tied to treatment through a named Tampa Bay hospital partner.
- Programs serve pediatric-oncology families connected to Greater Tampa Bay; confirm the exact local or hospital boundary.
Where your child is treated
Treatment must be through: Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital; Johns Hopkins Outpatient Care, Tampa; Moffitt Cancer Center; Muma Children’s Hospital at Tampa General Hospital; St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital.
- Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital
- Johns Hopkins Outpatient Care, Tampa
- Moffitt Cancer Center
- Muma Children’s Hospital at Tampa General Hospital
- St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital
Where the service, camp, stay, or experience happens
- Florida — Florida — Florida
- Greater Tampa Bay Area — Greater Tampa Bay Area
- Sarasota — Sarasota
- Tampa — Tampa
How to get started
Does a social worker or care team need to start it? No. A required care-team start is not published; the family can use the available route below.
Who can start: Caregiver, Parent Or Guardian
- Complete the official New Patient Referral form.
- Confirm that the child is treated through one of the five named hospital partners.
- Review the confidentiality, information-release, media-use, and reCAPTCHA terms before submitting.
- Watch for the welcome email from Programs and Family Services and ask about counseling intake and current partner availability.
Ways to apply or ask
- Online Portal · Open form or page
- Online Portal · Open form or page
- Phone · Open form or page · 813-367-5437 ext. 2 · snelson@childrenscancercenter.org — Contact the Director of Programs and Family Services about counseling access or a media-consent opt-out.
Documents to prepare
- Agreement to the referral form's terms; families who do not consent to name or image use are instructed to email the Director of Programs and Family Services
- New Patient Referral information, including diagnosis, diagnosis date, treatment hospital, parent or guardian contacts, and household information
- After enrollment, Programs and Family Services connects the family to an area counseling partner for no-cost care, subject to current clinical intake and availability.
Availability and timing
| Program | Active |
|---|---|
| Applications | Open |
| Funding or space | Not Published |
| Application window | Rolling |
| Last checked | Aug 24, 2026 |
- The current New Patient Referral form is live and the 2024–2025 annual report describes active no-cost counseling partnerships. Current therapist capacity and appointment availability are not published.
- The current referral form is live and no seasonal deadline is published; counseling-partner capacity is not published.
- No referral response, counseling intake, or appointment timing is published.
Limitations and things to confirm
- Care is delivered by separate counseling partners, so their clinical intake, telehealth, confidentiality, and consent rules also apply.
- The child must be treated at one of five named Tampa Bay hospital partners.
- The New Patient Referral form requests consent to information use and broad name or image use, but directs families who do not consent to email the program director; it also uses reCAPTCHA under Google's privacy terms.
- The public materials do not publish a numerical age rule, session cap, appointment timeline, language access, or current counselor capacity.
- This scheduled counseling service is not described as emergency or crisis care.
- Can a family decline every media-use term before completing the online referral, or must the opt-out be processed separately by email?
- How many sessions are available and how quickly can a family be matched?
- Which counseling centers, virtual modalities, languages, and clinician licenses are currently available?
Official sources
Program details were last verified Aug 24, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.
- Children’s Cancer Center 2024–2025 Annual Report · checked Aug 24, 2026
- New Patient Referrals · checked Aug 24, 2026
- New Patient Referral Form · checked Aug 27, 2026
- Bedtime Tales · checked Aug 24, 2026