Carole Kaufman, LISW

Carole Kaufman is a Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) with 20 years of clinical experience and a reputation for building warm, trusting therapeutic relationships. She combines decades of practice with a calm, client-centered approach to help adults and families facing a wide range of life challenges.

She recently retired from both a private practice and from work at the Cleveland Clinic, where she provided care in inpatient geriatric and adult psychiatry. That background gives her particular insight into aging and geriatric issues, caregiver stress, and the complex needs that arise with sudden or chronic illness.

Carole has specialized in maternal and child health and completed an intensive one-year postgraduate training in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). She also incorporates solution-focused and psychodynamic techniques to tailor treatment to each person’s needs. Her clinical toolkit includes client-centered therapy, CBT, psychodynamic therapy, and solution-focused therapy.

Her areas of focus include stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, grief, depression, trauma and abuse, eating and food-related issues, parenting and caregiver issues, self-esteem, career transitions, bipolar disorder, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue. Additional interests include abandonment and attachment issues, family of origin dynamics, communication problems, fertility concerns, guilt and shame, life purpose and midlife transitions, chronic pain and illness, codependency, and the challenges faced by the sandwich generation. Carole brings practical experience and a breadth of clinical approaches to support clients navigating adjustment disorders, mood concerns, separation and loss, and parenting guidance.