Coaching for Family Members and CaregiversYou've been holding everyone together. Who is holding you?
Held & Seen Coaching support for family members carrying a loved one's serious mental illness: bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, major depression. In English & Spanish, with a coach who has spent over a decade inside these systems.
No commitment. No pressure. Just a conversation.
You have been so focused on keeping someone else afloat that no one noticed you were drowning
The role you didn't choose, but couldn't leave
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Parent
Holding a child's diagnosis while trying to hold the rest of the family together.
You love your child fiercely and you are exhausted in ways you can't admit to anyone. You mourn the future you imagined for them. You fight systems that weren't built for you. You do all of it while making sure nobody else in the family comes apart at the seams.
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Partners
Loving someone through episodes, hospitalizations, and the long uncertain stretches in between.
You remember who they were before. You're not sure anymore how much of what you carry is love and how much is fear. You've lost the relationship you thought you were building. The loneliness of being with someone and still being alone is something almost no one else understands.
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Siblings and adult children
Who stepped into a caregiving role they didn't sign up for.
You became a parent to a sibling or a caretaker to a parent before you were ready. Your own milestones got postponed, your own needs got reclassified as optional. The resentment is real and so is the guilt about the resentment.
What changesThis work is not about caring less. It's about surviving more
The goal is not detachment. You don't want to stop loving the person, you want to stop losing yourself in the process. What shifts in this work is the relationship between their needs and yours. They stop being in competition.
➤ You stay present without disappearing
You can be in the room for a crisis, for a hard conversation, for an ordinary Tuesday without losing yourself in it. You learn the difference between being present and being consumed, and how to stay on the right side of that line.
➤ Your grief gets to be grief
The ambiguous loss, mourning a person who is still present, grieving a relationship that got replaced by a diagnosis, is named as real loss. You stop carrying it silently, and you stop feeling ashamed of it. That changes how heavy it is.
➤ You take care of yourself without earning it first
Rest, connection, space. You stop treating these as rewards you haven't yet deserved. You build a life that has you in it, not just a caregiving role that occasionally pauses. A support structure that holds after our work together ends.
➤ You make a decision for yourself
For the first time in years, you make a choice about your life that belongs entirely to you. Not organized around a diagnosis. Not calculated around what might happen. Yours.
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Phase 1: Orientation
It creates that picture with precision: the roles you hold, what you have taken on that no one formally asked you to carry, and the first honest naming of what you need that you are not currently getting. Most people in your situation do not know where they end and the caregiving begins.
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Phase 2: Architecture
We make space for what often goes unnamed: the grief that lives alongside this kind of love. Losses that are real even when your loved one is still here. Then we identify what you actually value beyond the caregiving role and build a personal framework for making decisions about your own wellbeing, with confidence.
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Phase 3: Navigation
We build specific skills for the relationships in your life. The focus throughout is your wellbeing: how you stay present without disappearing in the process. How you recognize your limits, hold them without guilt, and build the habits that keep you well.
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Phase 4: Integration
We consolidate everything that has shifted. You leave with a clear sustainability plan, a set of tools and practices that belong to you, and a map of the ongoing resources and community that will carry you forward after the engagement ends. The caregiving may continue. The disappearing does not have to.
Available as 1:1 private coaching or in a small group cohort with others who understand.
It is no longer just about whether your loved one needs support. It is about whether you can continue without it.
Yoyce Geronimo Galvan
10+ Years Behavioral Health · M.A. Clinical &
Counseling PsychologyI have worked directly with families affected by serious mental illness, not as a side note, but as the central work. Designing programs, supervising coaches, and sitting with families in crisis across more than a decade of behavioral health practice.
I understand the clinical systems your loved one is moving through, the specific grief that comes with loving someone whose illness keeps changing the terms, and the way a caregiver role can quietly become the whole of a person's identity.
Connecting the DotsResearch relevant to Family & Caregivers
I read the research so you don't have to. Each piece takes one peer-reviewed study and explains what it actually means for people living these realities.
You've been asking "is everyone okay?" Time someone asked you.
30 minutes. Free. A conversation about what you're navigating and whether this work is the right fit.