Medical Family Therapy
Caring for a child or loved one with medically complex needs can transform every part of family life. Among medical appointments, therapies, medications, school coordination, and constant decision-making, families often find themselves living in survival mode. While your loved one's medical needs may be at the center of daily life, the emotional toll on parents, spouses, caregivers, siblings, and the family system as a whole is often overlooked.
​Medical family therapy offers a supportive space to help families cope with the emotional, relational, and practical challenges that accompany medical complexity, whether the diagnosis or injury is new, or has been an established element in a family for some time.
Caregiving for Loved Ones
Becomes the Center of Family Life
Caregiver Burnout Prevention
Families caring for children with chronic illness, developmental differences, or complex medical conditions often experience:
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Chronic stress and emotional exhaustion
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Caregiver burnout and compassion fatigue
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Guilt, fear, or grief about unmet expectations or uncertain futures
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Strained partner relationships
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Siblings feeling overlooked, anxious, or confused
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Difficulty balancing medical needs with “normal” family life
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These challenges are not a reflection of failure—they are a natural response to extraordinary demands placed on families.
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Families caring for loved ones with medically complex needs are often doing the impossible every day. Therapy offers a place to pause, breathe, and receive support—without judgment or pressure to “stay strong.”
Navigating the "Sandwich Generation"
Members of the sandwich generation are caring for multiple generations at once, often raising children while also supporting aging parents or relatives with medical, cognitive, or functional needs. This dual caregiving role can be emotionally exhausting, financially stressful, and deeply isolating. Many people in the sandwich generation feel stretched thin, pulled in opposing directions, and unsure where their own needs fit in.
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Members of the sandwich generation often carry a quiet, demanding weight— trying to be everything to everyone while feeling like it’s never enough. Many experience guilt for being pulled in multiple directions, grief as aging parents change and family roles shift, and a growing sense of losing their own identity in the process. With little time for rest or self-care, balancing work, parenting, medical appointments, and complex caregiving decisions can leave individuals
feeling emotionally depleted, unseen, and overwhelmed.
Therapy offers a space to acknowledge the weight of these responsibilities and find sustainable ways to cope.
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You don’t have to carry this alone. Therapy offers a space to pause, reflect, and receive support while navigating the demands of multigenerational caregiving.
In therapy, you can work on maintaining healthy boundaries,
reduce caregiver burnout and compassion fatigue, navigate complex family dynamics and decisions, process anticipatory grief and ongoing loss, strengthen communication with partners, children, and extended family, and reconnect with your own identity.
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Therapy offers a space to acknowledge the weight of these responsibilities and find sustainable ways to cope.​​​​​
