Therapy can be beneficial for those that are caring for or bearing witness to a loved one struggling with health issues.  When a loved one receives a new diagnosis or is declining in health, the caregiver's world is often turned upside down.

Not only are there all the logistics to navigate and care coordination to provide, there can be an ocean of overwhelming emotions. including sadness, anger, fear, guilt, resentment, and grief. 

Often times the caregiver can get lost in all the focus on the loved one. Your health and wellbeing are important too. Therapy can provide a caring safe space to process your own journey. 

Whether you are a nurse, doctor, social worker, physical therapist, or another discipline, working in a field trying to help others these days is tough, especially healthcare. Entering a field to help people but being overwhelmed by intense schedules, heavy caseloads, and witnessing so much human suffering without any time to process can take it's toll. 

This can lead to burnout, stress, anxiety, and depression. This in turn makes the daily responsibilities that much harder perpetuating negative emotions and thoughts that feel heavier and heavier.

Helping professionals can also feel stigmatized if people knew they were struggling, as people look to them to be role models for physical and mental health. However, given the current health system, the number of professionals struggling has grown exponentially. Therapy can provide a safe space to process and work through some of these challenges to feel like yourself again and have more joy in your life. 

A chronic illness is never something we plan for. But one day we get a diagnosis from our healthcare provider, and our world is turned upside down. Things we were once able to do, we may no longer be able to. Plans we once made, we may no longer be able to keep. Our positive emotions are often replaced by negative ones like fear, stress, anger, shame, and low self-worth.

While everyone experiences negative emotions from time to time, chronic negative emotions can impact our physical health, and make it that much harder for us to cope with an illness or find any joy in life.

Therapy can provide a safe space to process and work through the layers to help bring you more peace and overall wellbeing for best quality of life.

Life is full of challenges and changes. These life transitions can throw us into a tailspin and leave us feeling stressed, confused, and vulnerable. It can often be helpful to have supportive counseling while navigating these changes.

With crisis and change can come opportunity. Change gives us the opportunity for personal growth. With each new challenge, we can develop new personal skills and obtain a greater awareness of ourselves, our values, and our priorities. This in turn can improve our lives in ways we previously could not imagine.

Sometimes we can handle change and adversity by ourselves and sometimes we need a little help. This practice is here to lend that helping hand and offer a warm and encouraging space where you can speak candidly and receive care, compassion and guidance.