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Caregiver and family support
For adults caring for aging parents while also managing work, children, siblings, money, old family roles, and the guilt that can arrive when you need limits.
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Therapy for caregivers and older adults.
Support for adults caring for aging parents, older adults navigating later life, and families trying to make hard care decisions without losing themselves in the process.
Free consultation
Start with a low-pressure fit call.
Toronto and Ontario
In-person near Bloor-Spadina; virtual across Ontario.
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CRPO #19786. Receipts provided for insurance.
CRPO #19786. Receipts provided for insurance.
English and Russian
Therapy available in both languages.
What may be happening
You have been carrying more than anyone can see.
It is never just the appointment. It is the booking, the drive, the medication list, the sibling text, the insurance question, the follow-up call, and the workday you quietly lose.
In therapy, there is room for both parts: the practical strain of care and the older family role underneath it, including the adult child, partner, sibling, or default coordinator who learned to keep going even when it was too much.
You may be the one keeping track.
Care can quietly turn one capable person into the planner, translator, buffer, and emergency contact.
Guilt can be complicated.
Sometimes guilt is not proof you are doing something wrong. It is the feeling that comes when an old role starts to loosen.
Care does not have to mean carrying everything.
The work is not becoming cold. It is finding a way to stay connected without disappearing into the role.
Ways to work together
Therapy for the parts of family care that do not fit on a checklist.
Later life
Therapy for older adults
For retirement, grief, health changes, isolation, immigration, meaning, and the question of what this chapter can still hold.
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Later-life couples therapy
For couples carrying decades of pattern, distance, resentment, shared memory, and the possibility of finding each other again.
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Clear options before you book.
50-minute session
Virtual sessions across Ontario for caregivers, older adults, and clients who prefer to meet from home.
$16050-minute session
Sessions near the Bloor-Spadina area in Toronto. Exact address is shared after confirmation.
$16075-minute session
Longer sessions for couples working through later-life transitions, distance, and long-standing patterns.
$220Receipts are provided for insurance reimbursement. Care teams and retirement-community partners can review referral information.
How it starts
A simple path into therapy.
01
Book a free fit call
Use the booking page to choose a consultation time and briefly name what is bringing you here.
02
See whether it feels right
The first conversation is about fit, privacy, format, fees, and what kind of support would be useful.
03
Begin with the real problem
You do not need a perfect story. Bring the care pressure, the guilt, the conflict, or the stuckness.
Before you book
The practical questions should be easy.
Is the consultation a commitment?
No. It is a short fit call to talk through what is bringing you here and whether therapy with Olea feels like the right next step.
Can sessions be online?
Yes. Online therapy is available across Ontario. In-person sessions are available near Bloor-Spadina in Toronto.
What does it cost?
Individual therapy is $160 for a 50-minute session. Couples therapy is $220 for a 75-minute session.
Can I use insurance?
Receipts are provided for insurance reimbursement. Coverage depends on your individual benefits plan.
The approach
Warm, steady, psychodynamic, and grounded in the actual bind.
This is not advice from a distance. Olea works with the whole pattern: the present crisis, the family history underneath it, the systems pressure around it, and the part of you that may still worry that needing limits means you are letting someone down.
Caregiver burnout and decision fatigue
Sibling conflict and unequal family load
Placement guilt and impossible care choices
Old trauma resurfacing during parent care
Retirement, grief, isolation, and later-life meaning
Therapy in English and Russian
Why Olea
Clinical depth, lived proximity, and respect for later life.
Olea grew up in Kazakhstan, where older people were part of daily life: at the table, in family stories, and in the everyday ways people looked after one another. After immigrating to Canada, she noticed how easily aging can become separated from community, family life, and the stories that make a person feel known.
She trained in psychodynamic psychotherapy and has additional training in aging, dementia care, and geriatric mental health through CAMH, McGill, and Rush University. Therapy is available in English and Russian.
Learn more about OleaWhy this work is different
Not just logistics. Not just stress.
Caregiving brings practical problems, but it also brings guilt, anger, grief, old family roles, sibling tension, and decisions that can feel morally impossible.
Therapy offers a place to slow the whole system down, understand what is happening, and find a way to care without disappearing inside the role.
Start with a free consultation"You can care deeply and still need room to breathe."
For professional referrals
When your client is not only making care decisions. They are drowning in the family role.
Olea is a fit for home care teams, mediators, elder-law practices, financial planners, retirement communities, and care professionals seeing burnout, decision paralysis, sibling escalation, or older-adult isolation.
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