Therapy for Caregivers, Helping Professionals and Secondary Traumatic Stress

It’s a unique experience of anxiety, one that brings into question if it is really anxiety after all. When so much of your time and energy is spent caring for others, it can be difficult to recognize where your own needs, identity, and limits begin. For caregivers and helping professionals, burnout can look like irritability, guilt, resentment, exhaustion, or feeling disconnected from yourself.

Therapy can help you understand these patterns and develop a different relationship with yourself, one that isn't defined by what you give to others. Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and mindfulness based emotional regulation strategies, we can explore your values, make room for difficult emotions without letting them dictate your choices, and practice setting boundaries that support a more sustainable way of caring.