About Carole
Carole Kaufman, LISW, focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She aims to create a calm, respectful space where someone can talk through what feels overwhelming. Carole uses straightforward methods so people can take small steps forward at their own pace.
She has twenty years of experience and previously worked in independent practice and at the Cleveland Clinic. At the Clinic she worked in inpatient geriatric and adult psychiatry, which shaped how she sees issues that come with aging, chronic illness, and caregiving stress.
Background and approach
Carole completed a one-year post-graduate training in cognitive behavioral therapy, and she also uses client-centered, psychodynamic, and solution-focused approaches. In sessions she helps people identify practical patterns, try different ways of coping, and reflect on how past experiences affect current struggles.
People often come for help with anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and family stress, parenting concerns, or the strain of juggling career and caregiving. She also works with issues like eating and food-related concerns, attachment and abandonment worries, and life transitions such as midlife change or fertility-related stress. Her style is warm and direct.
Sessions aim to be practical and grounded, with clear goals and small homework tasks when useful. Carole works with each person to set priorities and build coping strategies that fit their daily life.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Carole commonly blends client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening with empathy and helping a person set the pace and goals for their sessions. It is useful when someone needs a steady, nonjudgmental space to sort through feelings.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and tests small changes to see what helps. It is practical for anxiety, stress, mood shifts, and coping with life changes through short exercises and step-by-step practice.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Carole will collaborate to choose techniques that match a person’s goals, day-to-day life, and comfort with different methods. She adapts plans as progress and needs change so sessions stay useful and focused.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video sessions let people talk face to face, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is a shorter check-in option, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats help people fit therapy into busy schedules and keep continuity when travel or caregiving makes in-person visits difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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