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Carer Support

Caring can be a rewarding experience but it can also be challenging. Talking to a trained professional who understands your situation can help you address the challenges you face. Throughout the caring journey, many carers experience a range of emotions including anger, depression, anxiety, loneliness, loss and grief. Family and friends can provide an important informal support network, however by accessing professional support through counseling you will learn new strategies to help you:

  • Deal with overwhelming and confusing feelings
  • Better understand your experiences as a carer
  • Work out your own needs and develop ways to solve problems
  • Manage conflict, stress and other emotional factors
  • Learn and apply healthy communication boundaries
  • Build resilience and cope with change
  • Improve your mental, emotional and physical wellbeing
  • Cope with grief and loss and learn how to re-build when your caring role ends
  • Identify support systems and be connected to services

Caring can be lonely and isolating. You may not want to ‘burden’ friends and family and consequently keep how you are feeling to yourself. Many carers feel guilty if they have negative thoughts or lose patience, but this is all natural and part of caring. Sometimes it can help to talk to people who are not emotionally involved with the situation in order to express your thoughts, feelings and experiences.

A journey of a thousand miles… begins with a single step.

– Lao Tzu

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