About Us

  • Jaclyn Kamradt, PhD

    CO FOUNDER

  • Marcie Johnson, PhD

    CO FOUNDER

Dr. Jackie is a licensed clinical psychologist, certified yoga instructor, and co-founder of Caregiving Care. She is passionate about providing people with scientifically informed holistic tools to free themselves from an overbearing mind, organize the chaos in their lives, and engage in living in more meaningful ways. She is especially passionate about providing care to caregivers who feel overwhelmed, burnt out, and stuck. Jackie saw the emotional toll caregiving took on her own mom, as she cared for her aging parents. With a grandpa who lived to be 100 years old and grandma who lived to be 99, Jackie’s mom spent many years running on empty, balancing the scheduling stress of ongoing medical appointments, grief of watching cognitive decline, and constant vigilance in waiting for the other shoe to drop, all while raising a family. Even with a great social support system, caregivers fall through the cracks and Jackie knows there is a better way to recognize, understand, and support the caregivers in our lives. With a background in mind-body work and a PhD in clinical psychology, she integrates multiple modalities to help people identify their obstacles and develop tools to calm their nervous system and live life more freely.

Dr. Marcie is a licensed clinical psychologist and co-founder of Caregiving Care. As a psychologist, her expertise is in psychological well-being and cognitive aging. She has worked in various medical and private settings with a range of clients experiencing changes in thinking abilities and mood. She has witnessed the stressors of caregiving both professionally, in working with client families, and personally, in her own family. Marcie watched as her father navigated caregiving for his older sister, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease in 2012. Over the years, her aunt’s condition worsened, requiring more effort and energy from her dad. As a result, his stress increased but he was unable to find resources to take care of himself that fit his needs. Recognizing a gap in support for caregivers in more traditional settings, Marcie was driven to create a service designed to support caregivers in a personalized and tailored way. She understands the discomfort of unwanted emotions, feelings, and thoughts and aims to work with individuals to learn to move forward even while experiencing the hard or stressful things in life. Passionate about working with those caring for others, Marcie believes that sometimes it takes a team to help navigate the roles and responsibilities of caregiving in healthy and productive ways.

We met at the University of Iowa, where we received PhDs in clinical psychology. We came together to create Caregiving Care when we noticed similar struggles that our parents faced in their caregiving journeys. Over and over again,  we watched as our parents’ needs fell through the cracks. Individualized resources for caregivers and caregiving were hard to come by, leading to hours of frustration and reinventing the wheel for every new obstacle that presented itself. The trickle down effects of the emotional toll of caregiving led us to frequently process what was happening in our families and get support from each other. As the result of many long conversations over coffee (read wine), we realized it was time for a new genre of support for caregivers. From there, we launched Caregiving Care to transform the caregiving experience.