Caregiver Burnout & Support
Caregiver counseling is psychotherapy focused on the caregiver’s emotional and mental-health needs, including overwhelm, guilt, resentment, chronic stress, boundaries, anticipatory grief and exhaustion.
Your experience does not have to fit a perfect label.
- Adult children caring for aging parents
- Spouses caring for an ill partner
- People balancing caregiving with work and family
- Long-distance caregivers managing increasing care needs
- Family caregivers feeling guilty about boundaries
Something feels harder to carry than it used to.
- You are exhausted but cannot mentally switch off
- Guilt or resentment is growing
- You feel responsible for preventing every problem
- Work, health or relationships are crowded out
- Anticipatory grief or family conflict is making care harder
These experiences are not a diagnosis. They are starting points for a conversation about what is happening and what kind of support may fit.
Understanding the pattern—and your options within it.
Overwhelm and emotional exhaustion
Guilt, resentment and over-responsibility
Boundaries and difficult conversations
Anticipatory grief and ambiguous loss
Changing roles and uneven workloads
Sustainable coping within real constraints
Warm, collaborative and grounded in your goals.
Kristin’s work is shaped by respect, context and honest conversation. Counseling is not a promise that pain will disappear. It is a structured place to understand what you are experiencing and work toward changes that matter to you.
- Space centered on you, not the person receiving care
- Practical strategies grounded in your constraints
- Support with difficult emotions without shame
- A clear distinction between psychotherapy and family consultation
Explore Family Consultation & Aging Care Planning, a separate private-pay professional consultation service. It is not psychotherapy and is not billed to insurance.
Specialized experience without losing sight of the whole person.
Kristin Jones, LCSW, QS, CAGCS has 20+ years in social work and has been a Licensed Clinical Social Worker since 2012. Her work centers on grief, caregiving, aging, serious illness, changing independence and major life transitions.
Learn more about KristinQuestions people often ask
What is caregiver burnout?
Caregiver burnout is physical, emotional or mental exhaustion that can develop under sustained caregiving responsibility. Counseling focuses on the caregiver’s well-being.
Is caregiver support therapy or care planning?
This service is psychotherapy focused on the caregiver. Families needing practical guidance may use Family Consultation & Aging Care Planning, a separate private-pay service.
Can adult children caring for aging parents receive support?
Yes. They are a major audience for caregiver counseling, including support around guilt, boundaries, anticipatory grief and increasing responsibility.
Can family members attend together?
AlignCare does not provide couples therapy. Ask whether individual caregiver counseling or Family Consultation & Aging Care Planning better fits the need.
Is telehealth available?
Yes, for adults physically located in Florida during the session.
Ask about current psychotherapy openings.
Availability varies by service, schedule and appointment format. An inquiry is not a promise of an opening.