Therapy for caregivers, change-makers, and the quietly radical.
Raise your hand if you feel like we were never meant to live like this.
These past few years have been a test for everyone, but especially for those trying to create a more just world while holding families, classrooms, clients, and communities together. If you’re a parent, therapist, teacher, nurse, birth worker, activist, or creative, you’re likely swinging between “How do we get back to normal?” and “Was normal ever good enough?”
One night you’re googling “how to move to Europe,” the next you’re organizing mutual aid. You’re running mental spreadsheets of every possible future, wondering how to do the most with the least, trying to live with integrity in a world that asks too much and gives too little.
And that’s why you feel frozen.
Zoned out.
Pissed off.
Burnt to a crisp.
That’s why you’re canceling plans with people you love.
That’s why you’re exhausted from caring so much and still wondering if it’s enough.
This isn’t a personal failing. It’s a cultural crisis.
Even in so-called “normal” times, capitalism and supremacy culture keep us unwell. They disconnect us from our bodies, our histories, our communities, and our sense of safety. They take what should be human rights—rest, care, connection—and turn them into privileges you have to earn. And when we inevitably fall short, we’re told to fix ourselves with better routines, more productivity, or a mindfulness app.
Here’s the truth: you are not the problem.
You are a person responding (brilliantly!) to a system that was never built with you in mind.
Burnout, anxiety, rage, grief, numbness, shame, and overwhelm aren’t symptoms of personal failure. They’re signals. And when we slow down enough to listen, they point toward what needs tending- not just inside you, but all around you.
And that’s where I come in.
Hi, I’m Allison Staiger, LCSW, PMH-C (she/her/hers).
I’m a licensed clinical social worker with over 15 years of experience supporting people in caregiving, healing, and helping roles. I work with folks navigating trauma, burnout, identity shifts, loss, and the impossible task of showing up for others while trying to stay intact yourself.
In our work together, I bring a trauma-informed, politicized, and relational lens. My approach integrates EMDR, parts work, somatics, attachment theory, identity context, and nervous system literacy. It’s not one-size-fits-all, it’s grounded, collaborative, and built to move at the pace of your capacity. We get curious together about how you’ve learned to navigate the world. We name what’s real. We let humor into the room. We build the kind of therapy relationship that can hold your whole truth, not just the polished parts.
In my practice, we make space for the messy, tender, contradictory truth of being a human in a culture that demands you numb out to survive.
We build your capacity to feel, to rest, to resist, and to reimagine.
This is not therapy that asks you to cope your way back into unsustainable conditions.
It’s therapy that helps you recognize what’s not yours to carry, and decide what kind of life you want to build instead.
Let’s work together
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