Why This Specialty Exists

Caregiving often extends far beyond providing emotional support.

Many caregivers become advocates, coordinators, problem-solvers, researchers, crisis managers, and decision-makers. They spend countless hours navigating healthcare systems, insurance companies, educational services, disability resources, and community agencies while balancing work, family, and their own responsibilities.

Over time, this level of responsibility can lead to chronic stress, burnout, anxiety, resentment, guilt, and isolation.
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Therapy provides a place where the caregiver—not just the person receiving care—receives support.

Is This a Good Fit?

I help caregivers who feel overwhelmed by constantly managing appointments, services, schools, healthcare providers, insurance, and family responsibilities while trying to maintain their own well-being.
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Many caregivers become the person everyone depends on, leaving little time or energy to care for themselves.

✓ Strong Fit Contexts

  • Coordinate care for a child or adult with complex medical, developmental, or mental health needs.

  • Spend significant time communicating with schools, healthcare providers, insurance companies, or community agencies.

  • Feel emotionally exhausted from constantly advocating for someone else.

  • Struggle to balance caregiving with work, relationships, or your own health.

  • Feel guilty whenever you take time for yourself.
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  • Carry most of the caregiving responsibilities within your family.

✗ Not the Right Fit

This service is NOT designed to provide:

  • Case management
 
  • Educational consulting
 
  • Legal advocacy
 
  • Guardianship evaluations
 
  • Emergency crisis intervention​

  • Medical care coordination

Therapy can support the emotional impact of caregiving while helping you develop healthier coping strategies and boundaries.

You Might Relate If...

→You spend hours every week coordinating appointments or services.

→You feel like you're constantly explaining your loved one's needs to new professionals.

→You have become the "expert" because you have had to learn everything yourself.

→Even when nothing is wrong, you are waiting for the next problem.

→You can't remember the last time you had uninterrupted time to yourself.

→You can't remember the last time you did something just for yourself.
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Practical Details & Constraints

Format
100% virtual therapy
Payment
This is a private-pay focused service. Select insurance plans (Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Optum, Oscar) may be accepted for individual outpatient therapy. 
Session Length
50-60 minutes
Session Frequency
Typically weekly at the start, adjusted as clients build stability
Client Participation
Clients are expected to actively practice skills discussed in sessions.
Location
Florida (primarily). ​South Carolina eligible when permitted — confirmed prior to scheduling

Credentials & Experience

I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with experience supporting caregivers managing the emotional demands of caring for loved ones with complex medical, developmental, or mental health needs. My work focuses on the stress, burnout, grief, and chronic responsibility that often accompany long-term caregiving and navigating multiple systems of care.
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This page is specifically intended for adult caregivers seeking therapy for their own emotional well-being. It is not intended to provide case management, care coordination, advocacy services, or consultation regarding healthcare, educational, or legal systems.

Therapeutic Approach & Style

How I Work

Clients often describe my approach as compassionate, practical, direct, and collaborative. I believe insight is most useful when it creates meaningful change outside of therapy sessions.
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Together, we identify the patterns contributing to burnout, strengthen boundaries, improve stress management, and develop sustainable ways to care for yourself while continuing to care for others.  

You do not have to choose between being a caring person and protecting your own wellbeing.

Evidence-based Tools

I use practical, evidence-based tools to help clients manage guilt and anxiety, set and maintain boundaries, and balance self-care with caring for others.
CBT
DBT
Gestalt
Mindfulness

Strong Match Indicators

People who work well with me often:
✓    You feel responsible for solving everyone else's problems.
✓    You have difficulty asking for or accepting help.
✓    You put your needs and wants last on the list.
✓    You feel guilty for resting.
✓    You want practical strategies you can use immediately.
✓    You want a therapist who understands the realities of navigating complex systems.

What Progress Looks Like

While every person's situation is different, clients often notice progress when they:
→   Feel less overwhelmed by daily responsibilities.
→   Set healthier boundaries without overwhelming guilt.
→   Experience less anxiety and emotional exhaustion.
→   Feel more confident making difficult decisions.
→   Reconnect with activities and relationships outside of caregiving.
→   Recognize that caring for themselves strengthens--not weakens— their ability to care for others.

Summary

Caregiving can become so consuming that your own needs disappear. Therapy provides space to process the emotional impact of caregiving, reduce burnout, strengthen boundaries, and build sustainable ways to support both yourself and the people who depend on you.
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Services are provided through secure telehealth for adults located in Florida.​

Next Step

If caregiving has begun affecting your emotional health, relationships, or quality of life, I invite you to schedule a consultation to explore whether this approach is a good fit for your needs.