- Years in practice
- 20
- Credentials
- LISW
- Licensed in
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
About Carole
Carole Kaufman brings two decades of clinical experience to parents seeking steady, practical support. She focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, parenting strains, grief, and life changes. Carole speaks plainly and listens closely, helping people sort priorities and find workable steps forward.
Carole is an independently licensed social worker - LISW - who returned to practice after roles in independent practice and at the Cleveland Clinic. At the Clinic she worked with adults in inpatient geriatric and adult psychiatry settings.
Background and approach
That background shaped her calm, grounded approach to complex health and emotional issues. Her work often centers on parental guidance, caregiving stress, and the pressures faced by people balancing care for aging relatives and children. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help people test unhelpful thoughts and build manageable habits.
Solution-focused methods are used to set concrete short-term goals and celebrate small wins. Carole also uses psychodynamic ideas to help people understand recurring patterns rooted in family of origin and attachment history. She pays attention to how past losses and abandonment concerns continue to affect present life.
This combination helps when problems involve mood, eating concerns, or long-term medical issues. Sessions are practical and collaborative. Carole helps people create step-by-step plans, practice new communication strategies, and track progress between meetings.
The emphasis is on clear, real-world changes rather than jargon or abstract theory.
What Carole works with
Everything Carole lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Carole helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Depression
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Approaches Carole lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Carole uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot and change the thoughts and behaviors that fuel anxiety, depression, and eating concerns. CBT focuses on practical exercises and short-term skills people can use between sessions to reduce distress and improve routines.She also draws on solution-focused therapy which centers on setting realistic, small goals and tracking progress. This approach is useful for parents and caregivers who need concrete steps and quick tools to manage day-to-day challenges.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Carole discusses options with each person, matches methods to their goals and preferences, and adjusts plans as new needs emerge. The aim is to choose approaches that feel useful and workable in real life.
Online therapy with Carole can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls suit longer, in-depth sessions and face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter audio check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and text messaging make brief check-ins and quick strategy adjustments easier to fit into busy days. These options help people access therapy with more flexibility and continuity while working on parenting, caregiving, mood, or stress-related goals.
Questions people ask about Carole
What concerns does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, parenting strains, relationship and family problems, eating issues, bipolar disorder, and compassion fatigue among other concerns.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is warm and straightforward, using client-centered listening combined with practical methods like cognitive behavioral and solution-focused techniques.
What is her clinical background?
Carole has 20 years of clinical experience, including inpatient geriatric and adult psychiatry work at the Cleveland Clinic and prior independent practice experience.
What credentials and location apply?
She holds an Ohio LISW license and practices from Ohio.
Which languages and international options are available?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients.
What session formats are offered?
Therapy can be delivered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different schedules.
How does cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions are provided through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule a session based on therapist availability.
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