THERAPY FOR FAMILY CAREGIVERS
THERAPY FOR
FAMILY CAREGIVERS
What Happens
When Love Starts
To Become a Responsibility?
When someone you love needs more of you, it's easy to slowly disappear from your own life.
It happens one appointment, one medication, one crisis, and one sacrifice at a time—until somewhere along the way, you realize there's very little of you left.
You’ve spent so much time focusing on what others need. You deserve a space to reconnect with what you need too.
Does this sound familiar?
You spend so much time taking care of everyone else that caring for yourself feels unfamiliar—or even selfish.
You're trying to keep your own life afloat while quietly carrying someone else's too.
You're grieving the changes in someone you love—even though they're still here.
Everyone needs something from you, and there never seems to be enough of you to go around.
You love them deeply.
But that doesn’t make it any easier.
What once felt like a relationship now feels like constant coordination, endless decisions, and carrying responsibilities that never really end.
The emotional weight of caregiving isn't always obvious from the outside. Most caregivers keep showing up, doing what needs to be done, while quietly wondering how much longer they can keep doing it this way.
It's possible to feel love, grief, resentment, responsibility, and exhaustion—all at the same time.
And there are very few places where you get to say those things out loud.
WHAT’S ACTUALLY
HAPPENING INSIDE
You can’t turn your brain off, even if you try
Even when you're finally sitting down, you're mentally running through medications, appointments, phone calls, and everything that still needs your attention. Your body is home, but your mind never really leaves caregiving.
You feel guilty no matter what you choose
When you're caring for them, you wonder what you're neglecting elsewhere. When you take a break, you wonder if you should have stayed. No matter what you choose, it somehow feels like you're letting someone down.
You miss the person they used to be
They're still here... but so much has changed. You're grieving what you've lost while trying to stay present for what remains, and both things can be true at the same time.
"I kept telling myself I just needed to get through one more appointment, one more hospital stay. But it was never ending. I didn't realize how overwhelmed I'd become or how much of my own life had disappeared. Therapy gave me permission to be both deeply devoted to taking care of my mom and honest about how exhausted I was by it.”
— Former Client
The goal isn’t to love them less. It’s to stop losing yourself in the process.
HOW THERAPY CAN HELP
There are a lot of different ways to approach therapy. For caregivers, the work often begins with making space for you—in a role that rarely allows for it.
When you’re constantly focused on someone else’s needs, your own emotions, limits, and identity can start to get pushed aside. And even when you do notice that it can come with guilt or uncertainty about what you’re allowed to feel.
This isn’t about getting you to do less or stop caring.
It’s about helping you find a way to carry it differently so that doesn’t completely deplete you.
In our work, l will help you do 4 important things
UNDERSTAND THE INVISIBLE LOAD
We’ll identify the emotional and mental weight you’ve been carrying — the guilt, the pressure, hypervigilance, and constant responsibility that often go unnoticed by others
01
MAKE SPACE FOR YOURSELF AGAIN
We’ll work on reconnecting with your own needs, emotions and identify outside of being the caregiver and person everyone else depends on.
02
LEARN TO RESPOND WIHTOUT RUNNING ON EMPTY
We’ll build awareness around burnout, overwhelm and survival mode and find new ways to care for yourself while still showing up for the people you love
03
CREATE A MORE SUSTAINABLE WAY FORWARD
Together, we’ll help you set boundaries that are maintainable within your current situation, navigate difficult emotions and decisions and create a life that feels more balanced, grounded and maintainable.
04
Someone Who
Understands
the Weight
of Caregiving
HI, I’M CHRISTINE
I’ve spent more than a decade working in hospitals and hospice care, sitting with families during some of their most difficult times. I’ve seen the emotional weight caregivers carry: the advocacy, the decisions, the fear, the grief and the pressure to keep going even when they’re exhausted.
I also understand caregiving from the inside. I know how quickly your own needs can move to the bottom of the list when someone you love needs you.
I’ve lived that chapter of life where you love someone completely and still feel like you're disappearing.
Want to learn more about my background and approach?
the kind of support
you’ve been looking for
IF MY APPROACH FEELS LIKE
I would love to meet you.
NO PRESSURE. JUST A CONVERSATION