Finding Your Way Through Change, Anxiety, and Caregiving

Therapy for adults in Vermont navigating life transitions, social anxiety, and the emotional weight of caregiving.

You’re the one everyone depends on.
Managing responsibilities, relationships, decisions, expectations—and often your own stress, anxiety, or exhaustion in the background.

Whether it’s caregiving, a major life transition, or social anxiety, it can start to feel like you’re carrying too much alone.

And it can leave you wondering: Who’s supporting me?

Therapy offers a space to slow down, sort through what’s happening, and find a way forward that feels more steady and sustainable.

When Things Start to Feel Like Too Much

Many of the people I work with are:

• Navigating a major life transition

• Caring for an aging or ill parent, partner, or loved one

• Feeling anxious, self-critical, or overwhelmed in social situations

• Experiencing burnout, stress, or emotional exhaustion

• Struggling with grief, uncertainty, or identity changes

• Trying to balance everyone else’s needs with their own

You don’t have to wait until you’re at a breaking point to get support.

Therapy can help you make sense of what you’re carrying and find more room to breathe.

What I Help With

Caregiver Support

Caregiving can be meaningful—and deeply depleting.

Many caregivers experience exhaustion, guilt, resentment, grief, and a sense of losing themselves in the process of caring for others.

Therapy gives you a place where your needs matter too.

Life Transitions

Even expected changes can feel disorienting.

Whether you're facing changes in work, relationships, health, family roles, or identity, therapy can help you adjust, process what’s shifting, and move forward with more stability and clarity.

Social Anxiety

Social anxiety can quietly shape how you live your life.

You may overthink interactions, avoid situations you want to engage in, or feel constantly self-conscious in relationships, work, or daily life.

Therapy can help reduce the hold anxiety has on you so you can show up more fully and comfortably.

About Kerry

I’m Kerry Stanley, MSW, LICSW.

I provide therapy for adults throughout Vermont who are navigating anxiety, life transitions, and the emotional demands of caregiving.

My approach is warm, collaborative, and grounded in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Compassion-Focused Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).

In therapy, we don’t focus on “fixing” you. We focus on helping you relate differently to what you’re experiencing so life feels more manageable and aligned with what matters to you.

What Therapy Can Offer

Therapy isn’t about eliminating stress or difficult emotions.

It’s about helping you carry them differently—so they have less control over your life.

Together, we may work toward:

• Feeling more grounded during uncertainty

• Reducing anxiety and overthinking

• Building healthier boundaries

• Strengthening self-compassion

• Clarifying values and direction

• Creating a more sustainable way of living

Serving Adults Across Vermont

I offer secure telehealth therapy throughout Vermont and in-person sessions in Winooski.

Whether you’re navigating change, anxiety, or caregiving stress, support is available.

Ready to Get Started?

Reaching out for support can feel like a big step—but you don’t need to have everything figured out first.

A free consultation is a chance to talk about what’s going on and see whether working together feels like a good fit.