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Empowering women with resilience and continued support post breast cancer diagnosis. Together they are united in helping themselves and each other to thrive.

Welcome to The BRiC Centre (Building Psychological Resilience in Breast Cancer)

BRiC was founded by Professor Nazanin Derakshan a Professor of Psychology, with the aim to meet the unmet psychological needs of women with a breast cancer diagnosis. With medical advances more women survive breast cancer but this comes at a psychological cost as a great majority of women are left alone to cope with the psychological challenges after active treatment. They are emotionally and physically exhausted and need support and cognitive resources to rebuild their lives, to find the confidence and self-esteem that cancer took away, to find ways by which they can thrive and not simply survive. Led by recent advances in neuroscience BRiC conducts cutting edge research to build better and more effective ways to build resilience and emotional flexibility. Its interventions have proven to improve self-esteem and self-confidence as well as reducing longer term anxiety and depression. BRiC's translational arm includes its psychoeducational network (private closed facebook group) of more than 2100 women with a primary or secondary diagnosis of breast cancer. A unique feature of BRiC is its Collective Voice, a platform which voices the emotional impact of breast cancer and tips on effective coping strategies from our 2100 (and increasing) members. BRiC has been defined as 'a safe haven' 'a warm blanket' 'my place to go' 'a place which prevents me from falling into depression' and much more..... see our website briccentre.co.uk

If you want to join our private group, message us here on this page and we will get back to you.

23/12/2025

At BRiC we are open 24/7, as well as during the Xmas holidays and the New Year. To listen, to talk, to hold hands, to hug, to understand, and to support whole heartedly and without judgement. You are never alone. ❤️

19/12/2025

📣 Extended deadline! We’ve had a lot of interest and are extending our deadline for registration to December 23rd. Link to learn more and apply: https://www.ncio.org.uk/education

📖 This is a psycho-educational course to equip healthcare professionals with the knowledge and tools they need to empower patients through cancer and beyond.

🙌 We’ve developed the course with the aim to address a continued major unmet need in the psychosocial care of individuals with a lived experience of cancer.

07/12/2025

The NCIO GRiT (Growth and Resilience in Trauma) Centre is proud to launch our first postgraduate-level training programme: a 10-week CPD course ‘Foundations of Integrative Psycho-Oncology and Trauma Competent Care’, designed for healthcare professionals and integrative practitioners working with people affected by cancer.

This course is for:
Medical doctors (primary and secondary care) and surgeons at any stage of training
Nurses and nursing students
Allied health professionals (physiotherapy, radiography, nutrition, dietetics, psychology, etc.)
Allied health trainees and students
Patient navigators and support workers in the charity sector
Integrative medicine professionals across the multidisciplinary team

Course Structure
🔵 10 weeks | January - March 2026
🔵 3 hours per week of taught online content
🔵 Pre-recorded lectures available on the LMS (learning management system) and weekly drop-in live Q&A (Wednesday evenings 7-8pm)
🔵 3 optional on-site training days (Saturdays near Reading, Berkshire): 24 January, 28 February, 21 March

Please learn more about the course and apply on our website. Applications close 15th December 2025 with notifications to successful applications due before Christmas 2025. Places are allocated on a first come, first served basis. https://www.ncio.org.uk/education

06/12/2025

05/12/2025

Please can you help us with our new online study? Takes less than half an hour and you will be contributing to new research looking at how social support networks can improve mental health in women with a lived experience of breast cancer. So if you have a primary or secondary (metastatic) diagnosis of breast cancer please consider taking part in our study! Thank you a million

26/11/2025

We need your help!

BRiC’s research has empowered hundreds of females with a lived experience of breast cancer. In this new study we are looking at the impact of social support on emotional resilience. Please can you participate in this important study? - it takes less than half an hour and it’s online. Many thanks!

26/11/2025

We need your help! fans

BRiC’s research has empowered females with a lived experience of breast cancer. Please can you participate in this important study? - it takes less than half an hour and it’s online. Many thanks!

Address

UK National Centre For Integrative Oncology (NCIO)
London

Website

https://bcresiliencecentre.blogspot.com/, http://briccentre.co.uk/

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