Therapy for Helping Professionals in Fort Wayne, Indiana

Specialized Support for Women in Caregiving Roles

We provide specialized counseling services for other counselors, massage therapists, social workers, and educators.

Find relief from stress, anxiety, and emotional overwhelm. You may have difficulties prioritizing your own needs and feeling like you’re always running on empty. Often caring for others while leaving yourself behind.

We help you reconnect with ease, balance, and joy again!

Patterns You Might Recognize

Always “On,” Even When the Day Is Over

  • Difficulty mentally shutting off after work

  • Frequently replaying interactions with clients, which may churn up: anxiety, guilt, mental looping, and/or emotional overwhelm

  • Worrying about clients outside of work hours

  • Feeling physically exhausted but mentally wired

  • Rest doesn’t feel restorative anymore

The Quiet Pressure to Get It Right

  • Performance anxiety that doesn’t seem to abate

  • Persistent worry that: “I’m not doing enough for my clients”

  • Anxiety before sessions, even with familiar clients

  • Fear of making mistakes or letting someone down

No Longer Feeling Like Yourself

  • Emotional numbness and lack of presence

  • Persistent depression, anxiety, or hidden feelings of resentment and anger

  • Feeling disconnected during sessions or in personal relationships

  • Reduced emotional range – less joy, less curiosity

  • Going through the motions rather than feeling engaged

  • Noticing a growing sense of detachment

Stretching Yourself Too Thin

  • Saying yes when you want to say no

  • Hard to take personal time away from work

  • Experiencing guilt when enforcing limits

  • Taking on more than feels manageable

Feeling Worn Down

  • Feeling more easily frustrated or emotionally reactive

  • Shorter patience with clients, loved ones, and within other relationships

  • Lower energetic bandwidth when engaging in social outings

  • A heaviness that seems to perpetually linger

Carrying Tension You Can’t Quite Explain

  • Headache, muscle tension, jaw, or neck pain

  • Sleep disruptions: difficulties falling or staying asleep

  • Changes in appetite or energy levels

  • Frequent illness, morning nausea, or feeling run-down

When Work Follows You Home

  • Less energy and space for family or friends

  • Canceling plans due to exhaustion

  • Feeling distracted or unavailable outside of work

  • Guilt about not being more present at home

Wondering If Something Needs to Change

“Why does this feel harder than it used to?”

“Why am I so tired all the time?”

“How long can I keep functioning like this?”

The Currents Behind Familiar Experiences

For many women in helping roles these aforementioned patterns might feel familiar or noticeable. However, it may be difficult to access the language to describe one’s experience and there may be question marks surrounding its potential origination point.

For others, it may feel more invisible or simply a part of what it means to be a dedicated professional.

Beginning to notice these patterns is one of the first steps in understanding how your role, self-identity, relationship dynamics, and energy intermingle and influence one another.

Beyond the Labyrinth provides a space for you to begin identifying and exploring some of these experiences so that you can work towards achieving more ease and balance within yourself and your lifestyle. We start with addressing what often feels the most immediate – chronic stress, anxiety, depression, exhaustion, and emotional overwhelm.

We then begin to dive into your earlier life history to garner a better understanding of the roles and attachment dynamics that were present within your childhood. Sometimes our earlier roles within our family of origin follow us into adulthood. Sometimes our early family dynamics inform coping strategies that influence present day belief systems and experiences. These strategies are not bad. They were once an effective way of coping in an earlier environment. However, the same coping strategies that once helped us to survive the unthinkable may not be serving us and others in the healthiest of ways in adulthood.

With increased awareness comes the reality that a new path is possible, and not just possible – but very achievable for you to experience.

I have a vivid zealousness to help you get there!

What You Might Notice as Things Begin to Shift

  • Feeling more grounded in your body, senses, and day-to-day life

  • Experiencing a sense of harmony as your choices, energy, and priorities begin to align

  • Noticing energy returning for hobbies or activities you’d set aside

  • Caring for others while also caring for yourself

  • Feeling relief as it becomes easier to honor your own limits

  • Able to take time for yourself without shame

  • Setting and enforcing boundaries becomes more natural and easeful to do

  • Noticing a gentle separation between work and home

  • Easier to turn your brain off after work and truly relax

  • More energy, ease, and spaciousness

  • Improvements in chronic pain, sleep, and fatigue

  • A return to curiosity and personal enrichment