Individual and Family Therapy for Caregivers in WA State
Therapy for parents, partners, adult children, siblings, friends, or caregivers who are supporting a loved one in crisis or with an acute mental illness. Learn what to do if someone is having a mental breakdown, how to best communicate, and focus on steps towards healing.
Challenges You Might Face
Do you or your family have a loved one who has a chronic mental illness or is experiencing a crisis, such as a suicide attempt or harm to themselves, a manic episode, or dealing with hallucinations or delusions?
Are they frequently hospitalized and have trouble following through with taking medications, going to appointments, maintaining their mental health, or agreeing to keeping themselves safe?
Has it been challenging to prioritize yourself without feeling guilty, or have you lost a sense of your own identity?
Have you or your family felt exhausted and stressed trying to support or communicate with them, set healthy boundaries, and navigate a complex and fragmented hospital and behavioral health system?
Or is that loved one in your life dealing with a new diagnosis or mental breakdown for the first time, and everything feels confusing and overwhelming?
Taking The First Step
It’s a heavy load to carry, and I want to acknowledge your efforts, care, and resilience in doing your best to be there for your loved one going through a crisis. You may feel you want to give up at times, but you are still pushing through. Wherever you are on this journey, it’s crucial to have a safe space for you to feel supported as well. I help individuals and families as we work together towards a sense of peace, healing, and happiness. We can get to a place where you can hold healthy boundaries with your loved one and have tools for better coping now and in the future.
Finding Meaningful Solutions
With over eight years of experience in inpatient psychiatric and behavioral health settings before private practice, I regularly coordinated with family, friends, and loved ones of patients on my caseload to support them through a very confusing, frustrating, and difficult time. I gained a wealth of knowledge about mental health and substance treatment options in the community, what is accessible based on financial means, and how to get creative with navigating barriers to care. The system has many gaps and it’s challenging to know all your options. While we can’t change the system itself, I can help you either through individual therapy or in family therapy.
Let’s find ways to problem-solve around these systems, learn strategies to effectively communicate with them, build skills to advocating for your loved one, explore recommendations for the best options for treatment, bring awareness to what you have control over, and ultimately, help you take care of yourself during these distressing times.
