Who's Taking Care of You While You Take Care of Them?

You’re watching someone you love change, a little more each visit. And somewhere in the middle of doctor’s appointments, medication schedules, and difficult decisions, your own feelings got pushed to the back of the line.

Caregiving asks for more than most people realize

There’s the practical weight, the appointments, the paperwork, the phone calls with doctors who talk fast. And then there’s the quieter weight underneath: grief for a relationship that’s shifting even while the person is still here, guilt for needing a break at all, an exhaustion that doesn’t lift with sleep because it was never really about sleep.

Most caregivers don’t talk about that second part. It can feel selfish to name it, or like there’s no room for your own feelings when someone else’s needs are so much bigger. But both things can be true. You can love someone completely and still be depleted by caring for them.

Geropsychology looks at the whole picture

Aging rarely shows up as one clean issue. Memory changes might come with mood changes. A new diagnosis can shake a family’s whole sense of who’s who. Dr. Maya Pignatore specializes in geropsychology, working with older adults navigating these shifts directly, and with the families and caregivers holding it all together around them.

Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, she helps you hold the parts of this season that are hardest to talk about, the grief, the guilt, the uncertainty about what’s coming next, without asking you to push any of it away just to keep functioning.

You’re allowed to need support too

Getting support as a caregiver isn’t a sign you’re not handling it. It’s often what makes it possible to keep showing up, for longer, without losing yourself in the process. You don’t have to carry this alone.