Caretaker Stress

When Caring for Others Starts to Cost You Too Much

Caregiving asks more of you than most people will ever understand. Whether you’re supporting an aging parent, a medically fragile child, a partner with chronic illness, or a loved one in a long-term transition, you carry a load that is both invisible and constant. It’s love—absolutely. But it’s also exhaustion, decision-fatigue, grief, worry, and a thousand tiny responsibilities that never seem to let up.

Maybe you’ve reached a point where you can’t remember the last time you exhaled fully.
Maybe you’re doing everything right on the outside while quietly falling apart on the inside.
Maybe you’re trying to hold your family, job, and sanity together while wondering, How much longer can I keep this up?

Caregiver stress is real. And it can reshape your health, your identity, your relationships, and the way you move through the world.

The Toll You’re Carrying

You might be juggling:

• Constant overwhelm or irritability

• Mental and physical exhaustion

• Guilt for feeling resentful or wanting space

• Feeling “on alert” all the time

• Losing pieces of your own life—sleep, friendships, hobbies, quiet

• A sense that you’ve vanished into the role of caretaker

And while you’re supporting everyone else, it’s easy to forget you also deserve support. You deserve a place to sit down, tell the truth, and be the one who is cared for—even just for an hour.

A Space Where You Don’t Have to Be the Strong One

In therapy, we slow things down. We make room for the honesty you haven’t been able to say out loud. We look at what this season is asking of you and what it’s taking from you.

And we do it together.

I’m not the silent-observer type of therapist. I’ll ask questions, offer perspective, and help you understand why everything feels so heavy right now. We’ll talk through boundaries, burnout, grief, resentment, and the complicated love wrapped up in caregiving. We might laugh at the absurd moments, sit with the pain of the hard ones, and build a path that gives you more breathing room and a little more of you back.

This work builds resilience—not the “push harder” kind, but the steadier, kinder, more sustainable kind that allows you to show up for your loved one and yourself.

If You’re Ready to Feel Less Alone

I offer caregiver stress therapy in my office in The Woodlands and via telehealth throughout Texas. Whether you’re drowning quietly or just starting to feel the edges fray, support can make a real difference.

If you’re ready to reclaim some space for your own wellbeing, you can schedule directly through my website or reach out with questions.
I’m here—coffee probably in hand—ready to help you find steadier ground.