The missing layer of breast cancer care.
A breast cancer diagnosis can become overwhelming fast — complex information to understand, decisions to make, providers to coordinate, complementary therapies to weigh, and daily life to keep running, all at once.
The healthcare system is built to treat the cancer. Women are left to coordinate everything around it. An Integrative Healthcare Advocate is the support professional who helps carry that load.
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Support through every part of the experience.
An Integrative Healthcare Advocate is a trained, non-clinical support professional who helps women through diagnosis, treatment, recovery, and survivorship — providing continuity, coordination, advocacy, and informed guidance.
Inspired by the role birth doulas play in pregnancy and childbirth, Integrative Healthcare Advocates offer a steady, knowledgeable presence from diagnosis onward.
They don't diagnose, prescribe, or replace medical care. They help women organize information, prepare for decisions, coordinate support, and stay grounded through a complex experience.
In short: the support that connects medical treatment, complementary care, and daily life.
An Integrative Healthcare Advocate helps you implement and adapt your Peony Care Plan™ in real life—between appointments, across decisions, and through the emotional and practical realities of breast cancer.
Breast cancer care is fragmented. You shouldn't have to be the one holding it all together.
Your oncologist manages treatment. Your surgeon focuses on surgery. Your family does what they can. But organizing information, preparing for decisions, coordinating support, and managing daily life often falls to you — at the moment you have the least capacity for it.
An Integrative Healthcare Advocate helps carry that, with support, coordination, advocacy, and guidance, so you can move through the experience with less overwhelm.
How an Integrative Healthcare Advocate supports you.
Build a personalized plan
Using the Peony Care Plan™ framework, your Integrative Healthcare Advocate helps you organize information, coordinate care, clarify priorities, and shape a more intentional path through treatment, recovery, and survivorship — around your:
- • Diagnosis information
- • Treatment recommendations
- • Questions and concerns
- • Personal priorities and preferences
- • Support systems
- • Complementary care approaches
- • Recovery and survivorship goals
Prepare for important decisions
Breast cancer often means major decisions, quickly. Your Integrative Healthcare Advocate helps you understand your options, prepare for appointments, organize questions, clarify priorities, and process information between visits. The goal isn't to tell you what to do — it's to help you decide with clarity.
Coordinate your care circle
Support often comes from many people and providers. Your Integrative Healthcare Advocate connects the dots between your oncology, surgical, and radiation teams; nutrition, rehabilitation, and integrative practitioners; and your family, caregivers, and community — reducing fragmentation so everyone is working toward the same goals.
Manage daily life
Breast cancer affects far more than appointments. Your Integrative Healthcare Advocate helps with scheduling and logistics, treatment preparation, recovery planning, work and family responsibilities, and practical support — turning overwhelm into a manageable plan.
Provide emotional support
Sometimes what matters most is someone who understands. Your Integrative Healthcare Advocate offers a steady, informed presence through the hard moments and the milestones — so you feel seen, heard, supported, and less alone.
Keep you at the center
At the center of every Peony Care Plan™ is you. Your Integrative Healthcare Advocate makes sure your goals, values, questions, and preferences stay part of the conversation through diagnosis, treatment, recovery, and survivorship.
Supportive. Not clinical.
An Integrative Healthcare Advocate does not diagnose, prescribe, interpret medical tests, or replace your physicians. She works alongside your medical team — not in place of it.
That boundary is intentional. It's what keeps your support safe, coordinated, and appropriate.
Trained to support women through breast cancer.
Every Integrative Healthcare Advocate completes a structured training program in the Peony Care Plan™ framework, patient advocacy, care coordination, communication, and evidence-informed integrative breast cancer support — including nutrition, recovery, lifestyle, and complementary therapies.
All Integrative Healthcare Advocates work within a defined non-clinical scope, in collaboration with medical providers and complementary practitioners.
The Integrative Healthcare Advocate Certificate™ exists to set a consistent standard of care, and to prepare Integrative Healthcare Advocates to support women with professionalism, compassion, and accountability.
A new kind of support, area by area.
The Integrative Healthcare Advocate is a new profession — created to bring coordinated, whole-person support to every woman facing breast cancer. As our first Integrative Healthcare Advocates complete training, Peony is opening Integrative Healthcare Advocate support area by area.
Join the waitlist to be among the first matched with an Integrative Healthcare Advocate as Peony opens near you — including a complimentary introductory consultation when it does.
Keep me postedSome women read this page and think: I could do that.
If you've been through breast cancer, you already know things no textbook teaches. What it's like to sit in that room. What you needed and nobody gave you. The question you wish someone had helped you ask.
The Integrative Healthcare Advocate Certificate turns that into a trained role — non-clinical, clearly defined, and built around the same Care Plan you may have used yourself.
It's an eight-month program with supervised practice, and it isn't a small commitment. Training begins March 10, 2027. Early-bird applications open October 1, 2026 and close December 31, 2026.
Learn about the training →Questions women ask first.
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Start with your Care Plan.
Integrative Healthcare Advocate support opens in October 2027. The Peony Care Plan is free and yours today. Tell us where you are and we'll let you know as Integrative Healthcare Advocate support reaches your area.
Because you deserve support not only for the cancer, but for everything that comes with it.