About Therese
Therese Kaufman is a licensed master social worker who offers practical counseling for people navigating hard moments. She brings eleven years of clinical experience and a calm, straightforward style to sessions. Her approach is down-to-earth and focused on what can change in daily life.
Therese sees people for a range of concerns including anxiety, depression, grief, stress, relationship issues, parenting strain, sleep problems, low self-esteem, anger, compassion fatigue, and ADHD.
Background and approach
She also provides counseling related to hospice and end-of-life matters. Sessions emphasize clear steps and manageable goals rather than long explanations. Her background includes a Master of Social Work from Grand Valley State University and work in outpatient clinics and Medicare-funded behavioral health settings.
She has also run a independent practice seeing clients across different life stages. That mix of settings shaped her practical, usable approach to counseling. Therese uses mindfulness and mind-body activities like walking or simple yoga stretches as part of care.
She talks about routines such as regular sleep habits and healthy eating to support everyday functioning. The focus is on small, realistic changes that add up. People who prefer direct guidance and simple strategies often find her style helpful.
She aims to be respectful and nonjudgmental while offering tools people can use between sessions. The goal is to help clients gain insight and act on things they can control.
How therapeutic methods translate to online sessions
Therese often blends mindfulness with simple mind-body practices. Mindfulness exercises teach basic attention skills like focused breathing and present-moment noticing to reduce stress and worry. These practices can be done in short, guided exercises during video or phone sessions and as brief daily routines between meetings.She also emphasizes practical behavioral habits such as sleep routines and gentle movement. Coaching around sleep hygiene and small daily activities helps with low energy, concentration, and mood. These suggestions are concrete and designed to be tested and adjusted collaboratively in follow-up sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences and help decide which techniques to try first. That choice is revisited as you progress so the plan stays useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to keep making progress. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for teaching skills and trying exercises. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, homework check-ins, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to practice new skills between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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