Support for the Supporter
Therapy for Caregivers
When you are the person holding everything together, there is rarely a place to set any of it down. Caregiving asks for a kind of steadiness that nobody can sustain without support of their own.
What Caregivers Carry
If several of these sound familiar, you are in exactly the right place. None of them need to be severe to be worth bringing to a session.
- Guilt for wanting time to yourself
- Resentment you feel ashamed of
- Grief that started before any loss
- Decisions no one prepared you to make
- Being competent in public and depleted in private
How We Work on This Together
A Space That Is Only Yours
Sessions are one hour where you are not managing anyone. That alone matters more than most caregivers expect.
Guilt and Anger, Without Judgment
The difficult feelings are normal and speakable here. Naming them tends to reduce their weight.
Sustainable Caregiving
We work on limits, asking for help, and building the small recoveries that keep this survivable.
Approaches I Draw From
- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
- Emotion-Focused Therapy
- Boundary work
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Sessions are held online over a confidential, HIPAA-compliant platform and are available to residents anywhere in North Carolina.
Questions People Ask
- I can barely find an hour.
- Sessions are online, which removes travel entirely. We will find a time that fits your caregiving schedule.
- Is it selfish to get support?
- Caring for yourself is part of caring for them. It is not a competing priority.
- Can we talk about anticipatory grief?
- Yes. Grieving someone who is still here is common and welcome in session.