Healing the heart. Strengthening the soul. Courage for life.
You’re Doing Everything for Your Child. Who’s Supporting You
What I offer is Different. Here is Why.
When your child’s life is shaped by ongoing medical needs, your own life changes too—emotionally, relationally, and psychologically.
Most parents are so focused on survival that they don’t have time to name or even fully feel the toll it takes. And they don't know how to cope.
If you're the parent of a medically complex child, you probably know what it's like to:
- Wake up already on edge
- Bounce between appointments, phone calls, medications, and decisions
- Push through exhaustion because you have no other choice
- Hold your child through procedures and hold your breath through the unknown
- Feel like you're “fine”—but also falling apart on the inside
This kind of parenting is extraordinary—and it’s also traumatizing in ways that most people can’t see or understand.
I’m here to offer something different:
Not just support—but tools, education, and a path back to yourself.
As a mental health clinician and professor, who became a parent to a medically complex child, I’ve lived this tension. I know what it’s like to sit in the waiting room as a clinician, academic researcher, and a mom. I’ve navigated the system professionally—and broken down within it personally.
This overlap gives me a rare perspective. I created this education and consultation space to offer real-world, emotionally attuned, non-clinical support for families who need more than surface-level advice.
Why Do I Feel This Way?
When you’ve spent months—or years—fighting for your child’s care, living in hospitals, or responding to crisis after crisis, your nervous system learns to stay in survival mode.
That’s why:
- You feel anxious even when things are “okay”, waiting for the next shoe to drop
- You shut down when one more thing goes wrong
- You snap at people you love
- You can’t rest—even when you have the chance
It’s not because you’re doing something wrong.
It’s because your body has been protecting you for too long, and it doesn’t know how to let go.
You are doing the impossible—every day. But you shouldn’t have to figure out how to carry it alone. My parent education and support focuses on:
- Understanding the psychology of medical trauma (grief, anxiety, hypervigilance, disconnection)
- Naming and reframing your emotional responses—guilt, numbness, shutdown, survival-mode
- Learning nervous system regulation strategies rooted in real science, not platitudes
- Exploring the loss of “the life you expected” and how to create meaning in this one
- Building customized coping plans that are actually realistic for your life
- Processing the hard parts through a lens of compassion, not self-blame
Coping well doesn’t mean you’re unaffected—it means you’re learning how to move forward in a way that is sustainable, grounded, and emotionally honest.
What I Offer
I provide parent education and support that helps you understand the why behind what you’re feeling—and gives you tools to begin shifting out of chronic overwhelm.
This isn’t therapy. It’s targeted education, nervous system support, and emotional skill-building designed just for caregivers like you.
You can meet with me one-on-one or in small groups, where I’ll walk with you as you learn to:
✅ Understand how medical trauma affects your brain and body
✅ Notice and name your emotional and physical reactions
✅ Recognize your nervous system states in real time
✅ Begin shifting from reactivity to regulation
✅ Reconnect with a sense of calm, safety, and agency
Who is This For?
This education and support is for you if:
- You’re the parent or caregiver of a child with complex medical needs
- You’ve experienced hospital trauma, medical burnout, or caregiver fatigue
- You feel like you're constantly reacting but want to regain control
- You’re ready to understand what’s happening in your body and emotions—and want to start shifting toward healing
No diagnosis required. No right or wrong story. Just a space to breathe, learn, and grow.
What to Expect
In these support sessions, I’ll help you:
- Learn what medical trauma really is—and how it affects parents
- Map out your unique nervous system patterns using simple tools
- Learn to identify when you're in fight, flight, freeze, or shut down
- Practice small, doable shifts to help your body feel safe enough again
- Begin rebuilding trust in your own instincts, voice, and resilience
You’ll leave with practical skills, personal insight, and the understanding that you are not broken—you’re brave, and you’re healing.