NBCC Approved Course
by WellMinded Counseling
The Sandwich Generation Course
ABOUT
Equip your practice with the demographic insight, communication tools, and long-term planning frameworks to support clients raising children while caring for aging parents.
Your caseload is changing. More clients than ever are managing two full-time caregiving roles at once — raising their own children while stepping in to support aging parents. This isn't a niche population anymore; it's a defining experience of midlife for millions of adults, and it comes with a distinct set of clinical needs: chronic stress, role strain, guilt, grief that hasn't happened yet, and relationships stretched in every direction.
This course gives therapists a practical, research-informed foundation for recognizing and treating the unique pressures of the Sandwich Generation — so you can meet these clients with tools that actually fit their reality.
People-First Approach
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Reliability You Can Count On
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A Focus on Quality
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People-First Approach · Reliability You Can Count On · A Focus on Quality ·
What You’ll Learn
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Understand the Demographics
Develop a clear, current picture of who the Sandwich Generation is — age ranges, family structures, cultural and socioeconomic variation — so you can identify these dynamics in your own clients.
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Apply Clinical Tools for Impacted Individuals
Explore practical frameworks and interventions tailored to the specific stress profile of dual-caregiving clients.
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Support the Parenting Relationship
Learn how caregiving strain shows up in parenting — and gain tools to help clients stay present and connected with their own children while managing eldercare responsibilities.
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Strengthen Communication Across Generations
Gain strategies to help clients navigate difficult conversations — with aging parents, siblings, partners, and children — during a period of high emotional load.
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Identify Supportive Resources
Build a working knowledge of the practical and community resources that can ease the caregiving burden, so you can guide clients beyond the therapy room.
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Guide Long-Term Planning Conversations
Learn tools to help clients approach long-term care, financial, and family planning conversations with more clarity and less avoidance.
Who This Course Is For
This course is designed for therapists, counselors, and mental health clinicians who want to:
Better recognize Sandwich Generation dynamics in their caseload
Deepen their clinical toolkit for multigenerational caregiving stress
Support clients navigating parenting, eldercare, and everything in between
Why This Matters Now
The Sandwich Generation isn't shrinking — it's growing, as people have children later and parents live longer. Clinicians who understand this population aren't just adding a skill; they're preparing for a shift already underway in who's sitting across from them.
Enroll now to earn CE credit while building a clinical toolkit for one of the fastest-growing caregiving populations in your practice.
Next live event:
Date: Friday, September 25h, 2026
Time: 11:00 am- 1:00 pm
Location: Westminster Humanly- 11031 Sheridan Blvd, Westminster, CO 80020
Free course with an NBCC CE opt-in: $35