Therapy for Parents & Caregivers in New Jersey
Caring for someone you love can change nearly every part of your life. Whether you're parenting a child or adult with a disability or complex needs, or caring for a loved one with a chronic medical condition, caregiving can become a role that never fully turns off. You may spend your days managing appointments, advocating, making decisions, worrying about the future, and making sure everyone else is okay.
But who is taking care of you?
At Vida Wellness & Counseling Services, we provide compassionate therapy for parents and caregivers throughout New Jersey who need a space for their own emotional well-being.
When You're Always the Strong One
Caregiving can hold love, purpose, worry, grief, frustration, exhaustion, and hope—all at the same time. Loving someone deeply doesn't mean caregiving isn't hard. You may be experiencing:
Caregiver stress, burnout, or emotional exhaustion
Anxiety and constant worry about your loved one
Guilt when prioritizing your own needs
Difficulty setting boundaries or asking for help
Feeling responsible for keeping everything together
Grief or uncertainty after a loved one's diagnosis
Feeling isolated or misunderstood
Changes in relationships or family roles
Losing touch with who you are outside of caregiving
You don't have to wait until you're completely burned out to ask for support.
Therapy for Parents of Children & Adults With Disabilities
Parenting doesn't necessarily become easier when your child gets older—it may simply change.
Parents caring for children or adults with developmental disabilities, complex needs, or ongoing support needs may find themselves balancing caregiving, advocacy, appointments, school or support systems, work, relationships, and concerns about the future. Therapy gives you a place to talk about your experience—including the feelings you may not feel comfortable saying out loud.
You can love your child completely while also feeling tired, worried, frustrated, or unsure of what comes next. Both can be true.
Caregiver Support for Chronic Illness
When someone you love develops a chronic illness or significant medical condition, their diagnosis can change your life, too.
You may suddenly find yourself becoming an advocate, managing medical responsibilities, adjusting plans, or worrying about what the future will look like.
Therapy can help you process these changes, manage anxiety and uncertainty, establish healthier boundaries, and find ways to care for yourself while continuing to care for someone you love.
Finding Yourself Again
For many caregivers, one of the hardest questions becomes: “Who am I outside of taking care of everyone else?”
Therapy isn't about simply telling you to practice more “self-care.” We understand that caregiving responsibilities are real and that taking time for yourself isn't always easy. Instead, therapy can help you identify what you need, explore realistic changes, strengthen coping skills, set boundaries, and reconnect with parts of yourself that may have been pushed aside.
You are more than the responsibilities you carry.
Meet Ana Maria Rosado, LSW
Ana Maria Rosado, LSW provides virtual therapy for adults throughout New Jersey with a special focus on parents and caregivers of loved ones with disabilities, complex needs, chronic illnesses, and medical conditions.
With more than 15 years of social work experience, Ana Maria has extensive experience supporting individuals with developmental disabilities and complex needs and the families who care for them.
Her approach is warm, strengths-based, culturally responsive, and grounded in understanding the realities caregivers face.
Ana Maria provides therapy in English and Spanish.
Virtual Therapy for Parents & Caregivers Throughout
New Jersey
Vida Wellness provides online therapy for adults throughout New Jersey, allowing you to receive support from a space that works for your life. You spend so much time being strong for everyone else.
Therapy can be a place where you don't always have to be the strong one.
Contact us to get started.