I am an Alzheimer's disease and caregiver expert with over 20 years of experience in counselling, education, training, and human services. My work focuses on caregiver stress, compassion fatigue, dementia caregiving, anxiety, depression, workplace stress, grief, relationships, life transitions, dissociation and trauma, and high conflict divorce. My practice is grounded in a trauma-informed approach that recognizes how caregiving experiences can leave lasting emotional imprints. My understanding of caregiver stress is not only professional, it is personal. While working as a caseworker and training human service employees, I cared for my mother after she developed Alzheimer's disease at the age of 57, while raising my son as part of the sandwich generation. That experience shaped my understanding of grief, emotional exhaustion, dementia caregiving, and resilience in ways that research alone never could. Compassion fatigue is one of the areas I'm most passionate about. Unlike burnout, which develops gradually, compassion fatigue can emerge more suddenly, and it often goes unrecognized in people who are too busy caring for others to notice what's happening to themselves. I bring both