You Do Not Have To Figure This Out Alone
Dementia Caregiver Coaching & Family Support
​The Dementia Doula provides nationwide dementia caregiver coaching, dementia caregiver advice, and practical consultation services for families navigating Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, FTD and all other forms of dementia. Whether you're caring for a parent, spouse, sibling, or other loved one, I help families solve difficult caregiving challenges and make more confident decisions.
I advise caregivers and family members how to:
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Respond to difficult dementia behaviors
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Reduce caregiver stress and burnout
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Improve communication with a loved one living with dementia
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Navigate refusal of care, aggression, paranoia, and medication resistance
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Develop practical caregiving strategies
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Feel more confident in day-to-day caregiving decisions
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Services are provided virtually nationwide by phone and video consultation.
Caring for Someone With Dementia Can Feel Impossible
Many caregivers contact me when they are experiencing:​
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Fear about what comes next after diagnosis
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Escalating anger, paranoia, or aggression
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Constant arguments and emotional exhaustion
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The feeling that no one truly understands what they are living through
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Family conflict over care decisions
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Burnout, resentment, guilt, or grief
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A loved one refusing food, medication, bathing, or help
You are not failing.
Dementia caregiving is uniquely exhausting because it changes communication, emotional regulation, memory, behavior, and family dynamics all at once.
How I Help Caregivers
Whether your loved one has just received a dementia diagnosis or you have been caregiving for years, coaching can help you better understand difficult behaviors, reduce caregiver stress, and feel more optimistic about your future.
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Coaching I provide covers:
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Emotional Support for Dementia Caregivers
A space to process fear, grief, anger, guilt, exhaustion, and caregiver stress without judgment.
Guidance For Difficult Dementia Behaviors
Practical guidance for navigating difficult dementia-related behaviors and communication challenges like: repetitive questions, paranoia and refusal of help.
Dementia Caregiver Burnout Coaching
Helping caregivers create more sustainable routines, boundaries, and expectations so that the daily monotony, isolation and frustrations don't feel unbearable.
Family Decision-Making Guidance
Support navigating disagreements, role changes, and emotionally difficult care decisions.
Dementia Education & Caregiving Strategies
Helping families better understand their loved one's diagnosis, how dementia affects the brain and the behavior, communication, emotion, and daily function changes that go along with it.
Why Families Work With Me
I spent nearly nine years caregiving for my mother after her Alzheimer's diagnosis. During that time, I discovered that dementia caregiving is far more nuanced than the information and support available to families. Rather than viewing dementia solely through the lens of fear, loss, and decline, I help my many clients discover a more balanced perspective—one that acknowledges the challenges while also making room for meaningful connection, purpose, and moments of joy.
Today, I provide nationwide dementia caregiver coaching, practical guidance, and personalized advice to help families navigate difficult behaviors, reduce stress, improve communication, and feel more confident in their decisions.​
Families often tell me that what helped most was having someone who:
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understood dementia deeply
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communicated without judgment
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helped neutralize their emotional triggers
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provided clear, effective advice on how to de-escalate conflicts
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and helped them think clearly during emotionally overwhelming situations​​
What Is a Dementia Doula?
As The Dementia Doula, I serve as a non-clinical support professional who helps caregivers and family members navigate the emotional and practical realities of dementia care.
Unlike medical appointments that often focus primarily on diagnosis or treatment, Dementia Doula coaching focuses on problem-solving the day-to-day realities families struggle with most, including:​
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Difficult behaviors
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Communication challenges
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Caregiver burnout
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Emotional overwhelm
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Decision fatigue
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Anticipatory grief
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Adjusting to changing roles and identities
My role is not to replace medical care, legal advice, or case management.
My role is to coach caregivers so that they can feel less alone, more optimistic, and more equipped to navigate what dementia actually looks like in everyday life.
Who I Help
I offer coaching for anyone impacted by dementia.
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Adult children caring for a parent with dementia
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Spouses caring for a husband or wife with dementia
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Family caregivers providing in-home dementia care
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Long-distance caregivers
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Families struggling with difficult dementia behaviors
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Caregivers experiencing burnout, stress, guilt, or grief