Family Caregivers

Caring for a family member is an act of love. It’s also exhausting — and you deserve support too. I help family caregivers manage the weight of caring for a spouse, parent, or loved one — so you can keep showing up for them without losing yourself.

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What You're Carrying

Caring for a family member means putting your own needs last, over and over, until you’re not sure you remember what they were. You recognize:

  • Exhaustion — physically and emotionally, with no real break in sight
  • Guilt — for feeling resentful, tired, or wishing things were different
  • Isolation — friendships and outside relationships quietly falling away
  • Role reversal — caring for a parent or spouse who once cared for you
  • Grief — for the relationship you used to have, even while they're still here
  • Uncertainty — about the future, your finances, and how long you can keep this up
  • Resentment — toward the situation, or even toward people you love

Stop minimizing what you're carrying.
Caregiving is hard work, even when it comes from love.

If you’re caring for a spouse, you’re carrying an especially complicated mix of feelings. You’re exhausted, not just from the tasks, but from what it’s doing to your body. You’re grieving, watching someone you built a life with slowly change in front of you. And underneath it all, you’re worried about your own health — wondering what happens to both of you if something happens to you too. All of that can be true at once, and none of it makes you a bad partner.

If you’re caring for a parent alongside siblings, you’re likely dealing with a different kind of strain. Not everyone agrees on what care should look like, and the work rarely gets split evenly. If you’re doing most of it, that imbalance breeds real resentment — even toward people you love.

If you’re an adult child caring for a parent, you’re likely managing your own household on top of it — your spouse, your kids, your job. You’re not just carrying tasks. You’re carrying the mental load of two families at once, and that adds up fast.

My Approach

I bring professional training and real understanding of what caregiving actually costs — physically, emotionally, and in your relationships outside your family. We work on sustaining you: setting boundaries, managing guilt, and finding support so you’re not carrying this alone.

My approach is trauma-informed and draws on CBT, narrative therapy, and mindfulness-based stress reduction. We’ll work through grief, role changes, and the daily weight of caregiving, at whatever pace makes sense for you.

You don’t need to be in crisis to be here. Wanting support while you carry this much is reason enough.

FAQs

Yes. It’s easy to think your struggle doesn’t count because it’s not happening to your body. But caregiving takes a real toll of its own — on your body, your emotions, and your mind. Your feelings count, even if you’re not the one who’s sick.

No. This is exactly the place to say what you don’t feel safe saying anywhere else. You can be honest here about how hard this is, without guilt attached.

That grief is real, and it’s one of the hardest parts of caring for a spouse. You’re not just adjusting to new tasks — you’re mourning the person he used to be, while he’s still right in front of you. I can’t promise “normal” will look the way it used to, but we can work through the grief, find a new version of connection, and help you hold onto who you are, even in the middle of it.

This is one of the most common sources of resentment I see. We’ll work on how you handle it — your boundaries, your communication, and your own peace of mind.

This is one of the heaviest loads there is. You’re not just doing tasks for two households — you’re carrying the mental weight of both. We’ll work on what’s sustainable, and where you can let some of it go.

This is some of the most important work we can do together. Boundaries don’t mean you love someone less. They mean you’re protecting your ability to keep showing up.

Being housebound with someone you’re caring for is its own kind of hard, on top of everything else. I offer virtual sessions, so you don’t have to choose between caring for them and caring for yourself.

Yes. I accept Original Medicare, so your sessions may be covered after you meet your deductible, with a small coinsurance amount due. I’m also in network with Aetna. If you have a different insurance plan, I can provide a receipt (called a superbill) that you can send to your plan for possible reimbursement.