Neurodivergent Family and Caregiver Therapy

Service Description

When much of your time and energy is devoted to supporting someone you love, it can be difficult to find space for the needs, emotions, relationships, and challenges affecting your family as a whole. Neurodivergent Family and Caregiver Therapy is designed for families supporting an neurodivergent loved one or someone living with a diability, chronic illness, or other condition that requires ongoing care and support. Rather than viewing one person in isolation, therapy considers the relationships, communication patterns, caregiving demands, stressors, strengths, and everyday experiences that shape the entire family. Depending on your family’s needs and goals for therapy, sessions may look different over time. At times, it may be helpful for your neurodivergent or medically complex loved one to meet with me individually without their parent or caregiver present. At other times, parents or caregivers may meet with me without their loved one present. There may also be times when it is most helpful for the family to meet with me together. Each session is thoughtfully tailored to what will best support your loved one while strengthening communication, relationships, and well-being within the family as a whole. Therapy may address caregiver and family stress, communication challenges, changing family roles, boundaries, emotional regulation, advocacy, transitions, relationship strain, parenting or caregiving approaches, and developing sustainable ways of supporting both your loved one and your family. My approach is collaborative, strengths-based, neurodiversity-affirming, trauma-informed, and individualized. I bring clinical knowledge along with an understanding that families supporting someone with significant or lifelong support needs often navigate experiences that cannot be fully understood through an individual lens alone. The goal is not to change who your loved one is. It is to help your family understand one another more fully, strengthen relationships, reduce strain, and create a family life in which everyone has room to thrive.