Caroline Young
Coaching
medical expertise meets the experience of serious illness
About Caroline Young Coaching
Caroline Young Coaching offers specialized health coaching that bridges the gap between traditional medical care focused almost exclusively on the physical and a person’s experience of illness that includes emotional and spiritual realities and relational dynamics with family members and the healthcare team.
With more than 20 years of experience as a physician assistant in oncology settings and training in narrative-focused trauma care, Caroline helps individuals facing serious illness understand and address the deeper emotional, spiritual, and relational dimensions of their health journey. This integrated approach recognizes that physical illness doesn’t exist in isolation—it profoundly affects how we relate to ourselves, our loved ones, and our sense of meaning.
Offerings
Narrative-Focused Trauma Care: AKA Story Coaching
This specialized coaching uses narrative therapy techniques to help you observe, process and integrate the emotional and psychological impact of serious illness. My experience with people in various stages of significant illness gives me insight into your lived experience with illness and interactions with the medical system.
Together, we focus on making sense of your illness story, your experience with medical providers (for good and for ill) and building resilience through compassionate exploration of your experiences.
Support for Family Members
Significant illness or life disrupting symptoms don’t just affect one person. It can also deeply affect those who live with and love the person. Loved ones often need support to maintain their own sanity while providing practical and emotional support to the patient.
Partners, parents, adult children and others may need a separate place to process their own fears related to the meaning or possible outcomes of a serious illness and identify how best to care for themselves while caring for the person with serious illness.
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Accessing Care
Serious illness is overwhelming. It can affect all areas of a person’s body, spirit and life. The explosion of medical knowledge and the resulting narrow specialization of our medical system often complicates accessing help. Care is fractured across medical specialities and provider types.
What care or intervention might be helpful for symptom X that interferes with my daily function and who would provide this? I can’t seem to get any traction with my medical team in finding the cause of these bothersome symptoms or even suggestions for making life a little better. Where should I turn? What would I say?
Together, we can work through the possibilities.
Contact Caroline
To learn more about working with Caroline or to see if Caroline’s expertise might be a fit for your needs, complete this contact form or send an email to arrange a free 30 minute discovery phone call. Please include days and times that might be available for a call, including your time zone in your message!