Caring for Adult Family Caregivers
and Professional Caregivers

Caring for others can be demanding and overwhelming.

If you are reading this, chances are you find yourself feeling burned out, anxious, and overwhelmed by your caregiving situation while balancing role demands.

It is lonely and distressing to feel this way, especially when you feel that you want, need, or should be the primary caregiver for your child, spouse, sibling, or parent during their times of need.

Many red flags are signals for help.

Red flags for caregivers include: Withdrawing from friends and family; loss of interest in activities; loosing or gaining weight; inability to fall asleep, stay asleep, or early morning awakening; increased medication, alcohol, or drug use; and persistent anxiety, anger, or guilt.

Caregivers need care, too.

I help young and middle-aged adult parents; adult family caregivers; and professional first responders, medical, mental health, and religious professionals who feel overwhelmed and fatigued by role strains and compassion fatigue.

By providing them meaning-centered counseling and cognitive behavioral approaches, I help caregivers and helping professionals reduce their symptoms of depression and anxiety.

Through this counseling, caregivers learn to build boundaries that allow for self-care, resilience, and meaning to better cope with their caregiver experience and profession.

An integrated approach is used.

As your caregiving advocate and companion, I use a multifaceted approach in my caregivers counseling.

This approach includes a meaning-based existential therapy model that integrates psychoeducation, acceptance and commitment therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and wellness building.

Couples also can experience stress from caregiving.

Couples counseling is offered for couples facing the transition of coping with illnesses in one another and illness or special needs in their children. Please see my Marriage Counseling page if you are seeking more information about my Couples Counseling approaches.

Short-term couples counseling to work on relationship maintenance, intimacy issues, and differences in needs and grief reactions is also helpful to build resilience in your partnership.

Caring for caregivers is a passion of mine.

Among other particulars, I will help you stand up to your needs, explore reasons of guilt reactions, address and process your grief, improve assertiveness skills, explore actual versus perceived stresses, and develop a respite plan.

You will learn strategies for managing and reducing your anxiety and negative thoughts while increasing resiliency.

I am ready to be your companion on the journey.

Please call me at (571) 882-2925 or complete the contact form below.

Emergencies can arise and need to be immediately addressed.

***If you, as a caregiver, ever feel the need to harm yourself or your care recipient, you need immediate help!

Call your local Crisis Hotline (NoVA CrisisLink Regional Hotline: (703) 527-4077, CrisisLink Regional Textline: Text CONNECT to 85511) or go to your nearest Hospital’s Emergency Room.