About Roc
Roc Kauffman is a licensed mental health counselor who shifted into therapy after a long career in the home services and antique furniture repair field. He holds a Master of Arts and practices in Vermont, bringing 21 years of clinical experience to his work. Roc uses listening skills honed over decades to help people navigate stress and life changes.
Roc centers sessions on the person in front of him. He begins by building a working relationship and learning how each person prefers to communicate and learn.
Background and approach
From that starting point he helps clients set clear goals and picks practical steps to reach them. This plain, step-by-step way of working aims to make change feel manageable. He blends client-centered work with techniques from cognitive behavioral approaches.
Assignments between sessions often help people practice new habits and notice what shifts. Mindfulness exercises are introduced as tools people can use to calm anxiety and refocus attention. Roc has experience addressing trauma, grief, addiction, mood concerns, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
He reports many years helping people reduce anxiety and depression by addressing underlying patterns that contribute to symptoms. He favors a strengths-based view that builds on what clients already do well. Therapy with Roc is collaborative and paced to fit each person.
He is open to trying different practices and adjusting methods when needed. The focus stays on practical steps that increase resilience and reduce the impact of stress and worry.
How these approaches fit into online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on noticing thoughts without getting stuck in them and choosing actions that match personal values. It can be helpful for people struggling with anxiety, stress, or life transitions who want concrete steps tied to what matters to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it often suits worries, low mood, and habits people want to shift. EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, addresses traumatic memories by combining focused attention with guided processing to reduce distress associated with past events.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Roc will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and suggest methods to try. Together they will test techniques and adjust the plan based on what helps most, making decisions collaboratively rather than imposing a fixed route.
Online therapy gives flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support ongoing reflection, quick questions between sessions, and people who prefer writing their thoughts. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and try different ways of working until a comfortable rhythm emerges.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts, Vermont
- Languages
- English
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