Family Caregiver Stress

When is it time to get help?

If your daily activities are difficult to manage, including your paid work – it’s time to seek help. If your other relationships are suffering because of the energy you put into caring for a family member – it’s time to seek help. When you find your life is affected by the stress you are under due to caring for a loved one – it is time to seek help.

Family caregiver treatment methods

There are several treatment methods that effectively deal with this issue including:

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based approach to treatment that focuses on how people’s thoughts, emotions, and beliefs influence their behaviour and how they perceive themselves.
• Person Centered Therapy differs from more traditional therapeutic approaches in the belief that, while the therapist has expertise in many areas, the client is the expert on themselves and their lived experiences. People are essentially trustworthy and have a vast potential for understanding themselves while also being able to ultimately resolve their own problems when guided properly.
• Emotionally Focused Therapy is based on observations and experience, which looks at emotions and emotional intelligence, which helps support stronger and more secure relationships by helping better understand how our actions impact others, and how our emotions drive our interaction.
• Existential Therapy is focused on providing the client with a greater understanding of themselves including self-development, and self-awareness. This therapy works on the individual’s unique set of choices and the meaning behind them, making them know they can’t blame their decisions and the repercussions entirely on past conditioning and/or genetics.

Together with your therapist, you will discuss the best therapy for your unique personality and circumstances.