MCI Partner Pathway
Your partner got the diagnosis. You are living it too.
What happens to the person who loves someone with MCI rarely gets named. This program is built to name it, and to help you navigate what comes next without losing yourself in the process.
MCI Partner Pathway: support for partners of someone with mild cognitive impairment
Six sessions built around your experience, your grief, and your relationship, not just the diagnosis.
What no one tells the partner
When your partner receives an MCI diagnosis, the conversation turns immediately to them. What they are facing, what they need, what the future holds for them. That is appropriate. It is also incomplete.
You are dealing with something too. A specific and disorienting kind of loss that does not have a clean name. Your partner is still here, still present, still the person you built a life with. And something has shifted in ways that are hard to articulate and harder to explain to people who are not living it.
The MCI Partner Pathway is built for that experience.
What this program is
The MCI Partner Pathway is a six-session program for the partners of people living with an MCI diagnosis. It is a standalone engagement. You do not need your partner to be in the MCI Navigator for this to work, and it delivers fully on its own.
We meet every two weeks across 90 days. Each session addresses a different dimension of what you are carrying, from understanding the diagnosis through grief, relationship, and planning, to building a life that can hold all of it over time.
You are the client. Not your partner's diagnosis. Not your relationship.
This program is partner-primary. Your partner may be invited into specific sessions if you choose, but those decisions are yours. The work centers on your experience, your needs, and your capacity to stay present in this relationship without being consumed by it.
Session schedule
Sessions run every two weeks across 90 days. The sequence moves you through the full arc of what MCI brings into a partnership, from understanding the diagnosis on its own terms, through holding the relationship as it changes, naming the grief that has no easy name, and finding your own footing, into planning the road ahead together while you both can.
Getting Started
We sit down before the program begins. You tell me where things stand, what has changed since the diagnosis, and what you most need from this work. That conversation shapes everything that follows.
Understanding What MCI Is and What It Is Not
A clear, plain look at what an MCI diagnosis actually means, separated from what fear fills in around it. What has changed, what has not, and why the partner's version of this reality is its own thing worth understanding.
Holding the Partnership While Life Changes
How to stay in a partnership rather than sliding prematurely into a caregiver role. The drift is real and it happens gradually. This session is about staying side by side as long as that is honest, and knowing what it costs when the shift comes too soon.
The Two of You Now
The relationship as it actually is today, not as it was and not as you fear it will be. How you talk, how you decide, how you stay close when something has shifted between you that is hard to name out loud.
Naming the Grief
The specific loss that MCI creates. It does not look like grief to the outside world, and it does not have a name most people recognize. Your partner is still here, and you are still grieving something. This session gives that its name.
Your Own Standing
The invisible load of being the one who notices everything, tracks everything, and holds things together while saying you are fine. This session turns toward you and your own footing, because you cannot pour from a place that is running empty.
Planning Together While You Both Can
Future planning as a shared exercise, not a unilateral one. How to have these conversations with your partner while they are fully able to take part in them, and why doing it now, together, is its own kind of care.
Who this is for
The partner of someone with an MCI diagnosis who is doing their best to hold things together and has not yet had a space that is just for them. Someone who loves their partner and is also quietly grieving something they cannot fully explain. Someone who wants to stay in this relationship with their eyes open and enough support to do it well.
This is a navigation and education service, not a clinical one. If you are struggling significantly with your mental health, talking to a counselor alongside this work is worth considering. What this program offers is structure, real information, and a guide who will sit with you in the specific experience of loving someone with MCI.
Pricing
$1,500
Six sessions across three months, every two weeks. Pay in three monthly installments of $500 or in full at the start.
Ready to talk about what this has been like for you?
Get in touch →Has your partner received an MCI diagnosis and wants their own support? Learn about the MCI Navigator, a separate program built for the person with the diagnosis.