Support for Overwhelmed Parents and Caregivers
For the mother, parents, and caregivers holding everything together — even when it’s breaking them.
Specialized therapy in-person in Wauwatosa or virtual across Wisconsin.
This Support is for You If…
Parenting and caregiving can be deeply meaningful and also exhausting. You may have reached a point where the constant responsibility, emotional demands, and pressure to “do everything right” has become overwhelming.
Katie works with parents and caregivers who are experiencing:
Persistent anxiety or feeling constantly “on edge”
Postpartum or perinatal anxiety or depression
Emotional exhaustion or burnout
Difficulty adjusting to family or life transitions
Guilt, self-doubt, or loss of confidence
Irritability or impatience that doesn’t feel like you
Feeling like there is never a moment to fully recharge
Constant worry about whether you’re making the right decisions
Difficulty balancing work, parenting/caregiving, and personal needs
Therapy provides space to step out of survival mode, understand what is driving the stress, and develop practical ways to restore balance, confidence, and connection in your relationships.
Parental
Grief & Loss
Some parents seek therapy after experiencing the loss of a child — whether through miscarriage, stillbirth, infant loss, or the death of a child later in life. Grief following the loss of a child can feel isolating, destabilizing, and difficult to speak about, especially when the world expects parents to “keep going.”
Katie has a particular depth of experience supporting parents navigating grief after the loss of a child, including parents who have lost a child to suicide. Her approach is steady, compassionate, and grounded, allowing space for grief without pressure to move on or find meaning before you are ready.
Therapy can offer a place to:
Speak openly about your child and your loss
Navigate waves of grief, guilt, anger, or numbness
Rebuild a sense of stability while honoring your relationship with your child
Supporting Parents of Children with Disabilities
Parenting a child with a disability or complex medical needs is unlike anything else. The appointments, the advocacy, the systems to navigate, the grief that arrives alongside the love — it is a particular kind of weight that most people around you cannot fully see or understand.
There is a grief unique to this experience — not for the child you have, but for the future you had imagined. That grief doesn't disappear with time or acceptance. What grows is your capacity to hold it. The jar gets bigger, and life begins to fit around it rather than being consumed by it.
Katie works with parents of children with disabilities to:
Process the complex, ongoing emotional weight of this experience
Navigate caregiver burnout, advocacy fatigue, and exhaustion
Find language for a grief that others don't always recognize
Strengthen coping and self-compassion
Create space for their own needs alongside caregiving responsibilities
This work acknowledges both the love and the strain that coexist in long-term caregiving — without asking you to minimize either one.
Parenting is hard.
You shouldn’t have to figure it out by yourself.
In-person and virtual support for parents who are overwhelmed, anxious, or stretched past their limit.
What Therapy with Katie Looks Like
Katie offers a calm, supportive space where parents can slow down and regain steadiness. Sessions are collaborative and practical, focusing on:
Understanding how anxiety and stress show up day to day
Building regulation and coping skills
Strengthening confidence and self-trust
Creating more space for clarity, rest, and flexibility
Therapy is grounded in evidence-based care while remaining realistic about family life.
In-Person,
Local Care
In-person sessions in the Wauwatosa / Milwaukee area
Telehealth available across Wisconsin
Private pay — HSA and FSA accepted
Superbills available for potential out-of-network reimbursement
Free 20-minute consultation available
Lyra Employee Assistance Program (EAP) Provider
Ready to Get Support?
If it all feels too heavy, take the first step to getting the support you deserve.