Carer's and Loved Ones
When someone you love has a mental illness, chronic pain or is going through something like trauma, the legal system or even coming out as LGBTQ+ it doesn't just affect them but also the people that love them. If you are one of those people, you deserve support too and these courses are designed to give you that support.
Available Courses
Supporting Someone Who Has Been Through Trauma
Loving someone who has been through something traumatic can be traumatic for you too. It can bring up all sorts of thoughts and emotions and effect your life exponentially. This course uses a range of techniques to help you explore the impact that this has had on you and will help you develop strategies for caring for yourself and processing any thoughts and emotions you are experiencing.
Supporting Yourself while caring for your loved one.
When you are caring for a loved one who is going through something big, often your own self care takes a back seat. But you cannot give from an empty cup. With this in mind, this course is designed to help you explore the barriers that are stopping you from caring for yourself and together we will work to develop a self-care plan that works for you. You deserve to take care of yourself as well.
Life as a carer
This comprehensive course utilizes a range of techniques to help you explore the impact that watching your loved one go through a hard time is having on you. We will also look at how caring for them is effecting you, explore who you are outside of being their carer, begin to grieve the loss of your loved one the way they used to be and the life you once knew and develop strategies to help you cope with the stress and emotions you are feeling, maintain your own, separate identity and most effectively care for both your loved one and yourself.
This is a 3 month course.
Supporting someone who is battling mental illness.
Loving and supporting someone with mental illness can really effect you. It can have a profound impact on you and your life. This course utilizes various techniques to help you explore and cope with the impact this is having on you and your life .
Discovering and maintaining your own identity
Often when we are caring for a loved one, our own identity can become wrapped up in theirs. We become "their carer" and forget about who we are ourselves. Through a range of techniques, this course will help you explore who you are aside from a carer and together we will develop ways to help you ensure you are honoring your own identity and living your life as more than just a carer.
Guilt and Shame
Caring for a loved one who is going through something hard can inspire thoughts and feelings in us that we believe we shouldn't be thinking or feeling. It can be anything from anger to gratefulness that you are not going through this yourself. This course uses a range of different techniques to help you explore these thoughts and feelings and the guilt and shame surrounding them. Together we will work to normalize these thoughts and feelings and develop ways for you to challenge the guilt and shame you feel.