Caregiver Support
Aspiring Families therapists focus on an integrative approach to teach you how to alleviate symptoms, restructure cognition, cope with stressors, develop adaptive responses, build resiliency, and restore your daily life to health and wellness.
Caregiver Support Specialists
We know from research and family stories that finding caregiver support is one of the best ways caregivers can cope better over time.
It is challenging for caregivers to thrive in this arduous role when isolated from others, or not receiving the support and care they need as individuals themselves.
Caregivers become absorbed in daily routines and forget they need to take care of themselves, and that others face similar struggles. It can be a relief to begin to tend to your own needs and to learn that you are not alone. Entering therapy with a specialist in caregiver support can be enormously beneficial to right the balance needed for you.
Areas of Focus
- Helping caregivers feel heard, understood and cared for.
- Allowing caregivers to safely express whatever is in their minds and hearts about caregiving.
- Opportunities to explore what is most helpful to you.
- Validating caregivers’ emotional reactions.
- Offering useful information about hospitals and physicians, medications and treatments, home health agencies and equipment manufacturers.
- Providing specific recommendations about your caregiving story and practical knowledge that might be helpful.
- Addressing your emotional, social, and physical needs in a thoughtful, kind, practical, and adaptive process.
A Multi-Modal Therapeutic Perspective
- Mindfulness
- Positive Psychology
- Trauma Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
- Family Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Home Visits