Caregiver Stress & Burnout Counselling
Counselling in Vancouver & Richmond ·
In-person in Vancouver · Online across BC
Languages: English · Cantonese · Mandarin
Caring for someone you love can be deeply meaningful and deeply exhausting. When your own needs are continually placed on the back burner, you may find yourself feeling overwhelmed, emotionally drained, guilty, or disconnected from who you are beyond your role as a caregiver.
Counselling offers a space to slow down, breathe, and reconnect with yourself. Together, we can explore caregiver stress, burnout, difficult emotions, boundaries, relationship challenges, and the changes that come with caring for a loved one.
Whether you're caring for a child, parent, partner, or family member, you don't have to carry everything alone.
Honouring Your Experience
The emotional weight of caregiving is often invisible, yet it carries
a profound depth that requires acknowledgement and a safe space to breathe.
Overwhelmed
When the weight of responsibility never stops and the list of needs always feels
just out of reach.
Exhausted
A deep emotional fatigue that goes beyond physical rest, touching the core of your energetic capacity.
Guilt
The heavy feeling that you should be doing more, even when you are already giving everything you have.
Understanding Caregiver Burnout
Burnout is not a personal failure; it is a natural and expected response to the immense weight of long-term caregiving. When you are the anchor for someone else, the constant vigilance and emotional responsibility can slowly deplete your internal resources.
Normalizing this experience is the first step toward healing. It is about recognizing that your exhaustion is valid and that you deserve
a space where your needs are as important as those you care for.
How I Support Your Journey
1
Emotional support and safe space
We begin by creating a grounded environment where you can express the full weight of your caregiving experience without judgment. It is a dedicated time for your needs to be seen and
for your exhaustion to be acknowledged.
2
Understanding patterns &
reconnecting with needs
Together, we look at the patterns of responsibility and self-sacrifice that lead to burnout. By gently identifying these threads, we start the process of reconnecting with your own identity and inherent value beyond the role of a caregiver.
3
Gentle, sustainable coping & boundaries
We develop sustainable ways to manage the day-to-day pressure. This focuses on building soft boundaries that protect your energy and finding simple, non-clinical practices that bring a sense of calm and equilibrium back to your daily life.
Who This Is For
Counselling provides a gentle space to acknowledge the quiet weight of caregiving. You don’t need to be in a state of absolute crisis to seek support; often, the most important time to reach out is when you first notice your own light starting to dim.
Caring for a Child with Medical or Additional Needs
Supporting a child with medical, developmental, or special needs while navigating appointments, treatments, therapies, or complex care.
Supporting a Loved One
Caring for someone with a chronic illness or disability while managing the emotional and practical demands of caregiving.
Caregiver Stress & Exhaustion
Feeling overwhelmed, emotionally drained, or exhausted from being the person others depend on.
Guilt, Boundaries & Your Own Needs
Struggling with guilt when taking time for yourself, setting boundaries, or acknowledging your own needs.
Life Changes, Grief & Uncertainty
Adjusting to a life you didn’t expect, navigating changes in family roles, relationships, work, identity, grief, or uncertainty.
Reconnecting with Yourself
Feeling disconnected from who you are beyond your role as a parent, partner, or caregiver, and wanting a space where you can simply be supported.
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A Space to Walk Alongside You
I’m Jessy Lok, a BC Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) with a Master’s degree in Counselling Psychology and a background in Psychology.
I work with individuals and families navigating caregiver stress, life transitions, anxiety, and the emotional complexities of caring
for a loved one.
With both professional training and personal experience navigating the demands of family caregiving, I understand that caregiving can affect not only your emotional wellbeing, but also your sense of identity, relationships, and everyday life.
My approach is warm, compassionate, and non-judgmental. I offer counselling in English, Cantonese, and Mandarin, providing a space where you can put down the weight for a while and simply be yourself.