January, 18th 2025: Join us for food, drinks, dancing, and author sharing — all to support our mission. Learn more here!
The Elephant in the Room is Cancer. Tea is the Relief Conversation Provides.
The Elephant in the Room is Cancer. Tea is the Relief Conversation Provides.
Sitting Together with Empathy and Emotional Perseverance offers a safe, clinician-led virtual space to acknowledge the emotions that we often think we “shouldn’t” or don’t want to feel.
Each session will focus on an emotion that is common when caring for a young adult with cancer, but not always made room for or expressed.
*This is for caregivers of AYAs (ages 15-39) at any point in their cancer experience. This is not for healthcare providers.
• February 11, 2026 • 7-8:30 pm ET – ANGER
• May 13, 2026 • 7-8:30 pm ET – GRIEF
• August 12, 2026 • 7-8:30 pm ET – FEAR
• November 11, 2026 • 7-8:30 pm ET – GUILT
Join Elephants and Tea for our Healing Through Writing Workshop specifically for those caring for a young adult with cancer as we explore therapeutic writing as a form of processing and coping with ones’ cancer experience.
Caregivers will feel the power of writing and sharing parts of their story to empower oneself and help aid in their own healing while connecting to others and their caregiving experiences.
• April 16, 2026 • 7-8:30 pm ET
My mission has never been to remove feelings or hard things from someone’s life, but rather to create a space that feels safe to explore those feelings and figure out, together, how we can continue to live even with challenges and tough emotions. I believe in the power of feeling all the feels and acknowledging that there is a place and a purpose for all of them and am humbled to work with individuals and couples to figure out what that means for them. There is no right answer to human emotions and what we “should” or “shouldn’t” feel. It’s about exploring the meaning of your experiences, how those make you YOU, and how we can create value and intention together.
Working with adolescents and young adults with cancer since 2007 has provided me with opportunities to learn from remarkable humans that have allowed me to join them in their experiences. I owe so much of my ability to support this amazing and unique population to every patient, survivor, caregiver, and co-survivor I have had the pleasure to know. A cancer diagnosis is hard and my hope for what I can offer is someone that will consistently show up, hold space, challenge and support you, cheer for your wins and sit in your struggles, all with a side of dark humor, a sprinkle of sarcasm, and a quick wit.
Kayla Fulginiti, LCSW, OSW-C, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and the Senior Director at Elephants and Tea. She has been involved in the adolescent and young adult (AYA) oncology space since 2007, first as a Hospital Social Worker in Adult Oncology and then as a Pediatric Oncology Social Worker and School Program Coordinator. Throughout her career, she has always advocated and emphasized the importance of AYA support by assessing and raising awareness about AYA needs through direct clinical care, research, community engagement, and serving on advisory boards for various nonprofit organizations. Kayla has been involved in the nonprofit space for over seven years, having multiple roles such as Program Manager and Program Director within the youth suicide prevention and AYA cancer communities. She lives with her husband, son, and their boxer rescue – Blue Cheese – in Denver, Colorado. She adamantly believes Taco Tuesday should be Taco Every Day, will always choose summer over winter, and is still on the hunt for the best gluten free donut.