Carole Kaufman
Experienced LISW offering practical, compassionate therapy
LISW Ohio
- Experience
- 20 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Family
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Carole
Carole Kaufman is a licensed independent social worker (LISW) with twenty years of clinical experience who aims to help people managing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma, relationship struggles, and life transitions.
Background and approach
She emphasizes building a warm, trusting relationship as a foundation for therapy and draws on a range of approaches to tailor care to each person's concerns. Carole's background includes intensive post-graduate training in cognitive behavioral therapy and additional experience with solution-focused and psychodynamic methods.
After a career that included independent practice and work at the Cleveland Clinic in inpatient geriatric and adult psychiatry, she returned to offering counseling with a focus on practical skills and exploration of underlying patterns.
Her areas of interest span maternal and child health, adjustment to illness or aging, parental guidance, caregiving stress, and issues common to those balancing caregiving responsibilities. Carole works with presenting issues such as eating and food-related concerns, bipolar mood challenges, self-esteem, career changes, and compassion fatigue, shaping treatment plans that reflect a client's goals and life context.
How therapy approaches meet your needs online
Carole often uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through concrete skills and practice, and client-centered therapy, which prioritizes empathic listening and the client's own goals to foster personal insight and growth. These approaches support work on anxiety, depression, stress, relationship patterns, and coping with life changes.She also draws on psychodynamic ideas when helpful to explore deeper patterns and early influences that can shape current difficulties. Finding the right mix of approaches is collaborative; the therapist will work with each person to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences and adjust the plan as therapy progresses.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility by allowing video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit varied schedules and daily demands. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care while balancing work, caregiving, or health-related constraints, and they enable ongoing skill practice and support between sessions.
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Experience
20+ years
Licensed
Ohio
Languages
English