Caregiver Burnout
personal + relational therapy for individuals & families who are overwhelmed
You deserve to have
full relationships
full of care
full of conversation
full of connection
You may be afraid to reach out because you don’t have time for someone who doesn’t know their stuff. You barely have any time for yourself.
You need a way out but that way out is through.
You're worried about what will happen the next time you need a break.
You don't want to lash out, but everyone's needs are overwhelming you.
Caregiving, whether you decided to do this or it happened to find you, is hard to do on your own.
You wish things were different with your loved one, maybe back to the way they were before a diagnosis.
You want to have the hard conversations with your family and supports while you still have a chance.
Burnout, grief, overwhelm, panic, and frustration are not new concepts to you.
I have lived experience as a caregiver to strangers, friends, and family. I am also a relational therapist, meaning I recognize the importance of connection in our lives. We can work individually, addressing the issue at the stem, or we can work with your family and those you are caregiving for, addressing the issues at the root. No matter how you decide to address burnout, you are doing you are in the right place. Together we can manage caregiver burnout and use real, tangible skills to go from relationship stress to living in your authentic values.
I’m not afraid of the conflict that comes with relationships. Safe conflict and disagreements are a part of connection and invite change.
We will use Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment work, and Bowen Family Systems theory to provide you with support, data, and skills as you navigate relational stress. It’s not your fault that this (gestures broadly at everything) is stressful. We will navigate the current state of the world and your relational history together to form a grounded approach to fight against the system.
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I am careful in documentation & navigation of the current political climate. I do not use AI for any kind of note-taking or clinical work. I do not document information about disabilities, neurodivergence, gender, sexuality, or specific traumas.
I also do not document a diagnosis unless there is an agreement between us that you’d like me to for insurance superbill purposes. We will decide together what diagnosis fits what is happening for you.
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Yes - I love working with care relationships. Whether these roles are named, unnamed, assigned, or unassigned. Caregivers and Care receivers often experience stress related to disability, neurodivergence, shame, guilt, feeling like a burden, and navigating expectations.
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Yes - I love working with chosen families, siblings, relatives, adult children and significant caregivers (parents, aunts/uncles, grandparents). Families often are navigating emotional stress, conflict around grief, processing past trauma, and making room for new identities.
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I work with partners in romantic relationships who want to explore interdependence (compared to codependence) or want to support each other in caregiving and care-receiving.
*If you are looking for a couples / relationship therapist who can work around inter-neurotype or trauma-focused partners work, please reach out - I have a great referral list!
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We’ll work together to understand it - if that’s your goal. If not, know that it’s okay to not know everything. It’s okay to simply sit with the fact that you are feeling pain, and to notice how it might be getting in the way of you living the life you find meaningful.
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Weekly or twice monthly relational therapy can provide a safe space for reconnecting, reworking, and re-imagining your relationships. In sessions, we will draw from each person’s experiences as a way to understand the relationship dynamics. We will move through your emotional experience and welcome sensations, memories, and thoughts as they come.
Relational stress builds up over time. I work with clients who have experienced years of systemic, institutional, relational, and internalized harm that ends up impacting their bodies and minds. We will work collaboratively while implementing real tangible skills to stop conflict loops from escalating and build in tools for repair.
As we get closer to the relationship you desire, we’ll reconnect with the hobbies and passions you once shared, making conversation and connection easier again. If through our work you find that a change in the relationship is needed, we will set goals for how to navigate this together and make space to process the grief that comes with change.