Foster Parents
Therapy for foster parents in Oklahoma
Caring deeply while living with uncertainty can ask more of you than other people see.
Acuity provides therapy for foster parents navigating stress, grief, changing family relationships, system demands, boundaries, difficult decisions, and the emotional weight of caregiving.
Support for the caregiver
There can be love, uncertainty, and loss in the same story.
Foster parenting can involve deep connection alongside appointments, advocacy, changing routines, professional and family relationships, and decisions that may be outside your control. Even when the role matters deeply to you, the emotional weight can be difficult to carry.
Therapy offers a place centered on your own experience. You can speak honestly about grief, frustration, hope, guilt, exhaustion, attachment, and change without needing to simplify what this work means to you.
What you may be carrying
You can be committed to caregiving and still need room for yourself.
Foster parents may experience several layers of stress at once. Therapy can hold the full picture without judging the feelings that come with it.
Uncertainty and limited control
Trying to stay grounded while plans, timelines, decisions, and expectations may change with little notice.
Emotional exhaustion
Feeling depleted from caregiving, advocacy, appointments, vigilance, or the need to keep adapting.
Grief and changing attachment
Holding love, loss, reunification, transition, ambiguity, or the possibility of saying goodbye.
System demands
Navigating communication, documentation, schedules, professionals, and competing responsibilities.
Impact on relationships
Noticing strain in partnership, parenting, friendships, extended family, or the emotional climate at home.
Pressure to be endlessly capable
Feeling guilty for struggling or believing you must remain patient, grateful, and composed at all times.
How therapy can support you
Care for yourself while continuing to care about what matters.
Therapy at Acuity is individualized and collaborative. The work can include emotional processing, practical coping, clearer boundaries, relationship support, and room to reconnect with yourself.
Process
Give complicated feelings room.
Make space for grief, uncertainty, anger, hope, attachment, and experiences that can be hard to explain.
Ground
Respond with greater steadiness.
Build realistic ways to regulate stress, recover, communicate, and navigate what remains outside your control.
Protect
Care for the caregiver, too.
Strengthen boundaries, support, connection, and a sense of self beyond the responsibilities you carry.
Insurance Plans We Accept
Care that feels supportive from the very first step.
Acuity Counseling is in-network with several major insurance plans, helping make quality mental health care more accessible.
Book an Appointment
Choose who feels right for you.
Our therapists blend compassion with real, evidence-based tools to help you feel seen, supported, and empowered to grow.
Online across Oklahoma · In person in Edmond
Select a therapist to view appointment times
Whitney Hake
Owner and Clinical Supervisor
MCP, LPC-S, NCC
- In person
- Online
- Insurance accepted
Julie Siberts
Therapist
M.Ed., LPC-Candidate, NCC
- In person
- Online
- Insurance accepted
Breanna Shellhorse
Therapist
MCMHC, LPC-Candidate
- In person
- Online
- Accepting new clients
Sloan Huffine
Therapist
M.Ed., LPC-Candidate
- In person
- Online
- Accepting new clients
Not sure who to choose? The booking window can help you compare availability. You can also contact Acuity directly.
Foster Parent FAQs
Questions foster parents may have about therapy
Is this therapy for foster parents or for children in foster care?
This page describes individual therapy for foster parents and the concerns affecting their own well-being. Acuity can help you consider whether individual, family, or teen therapy best fits the support you are seeking.
What concerns can foster parents bring to therapy?
You can bring stress, uncertainty, grief, changing attachment, relationship strain, boundaries, system demands, difficult decisions, or the emotional weight of caring for a child whose future may feel uncertain.
Can therapy help when so much is outside my control?
Yes. Therapy can offer space to process what you cannot control, notice what is within your influence, and build ways to respond with greater steadiness while circumstances continue to change.
Can therapy support my relationships and family life?
Yes. Individual therapy can help you understand stress responses, communicate needs, set boundaries, and make room for relationships affected by caregiving demands and changing family roles.
Is therapy for foster parents available online?
Yes. Acuity offers in-person appointments in Edmond and online therapy for adults who are physically located in Oklahoma during each session.
