Gregory Kaufman, LICSW

Gregory Kaufman is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with eleven years of clinical practice. He brings a practical, CBT-informed approach to help people manage stress, anxiety, mood struggles, and addiction concerns. Gregory speaks English and Spanish and works with people in Massachusetts.

He focuses on concrete problems people bring today. Sessions often include straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. He also draws on acceptance and commitment therapy and attachment-based ideas to help people notice values and improve closer relationships.

Gregory has long experience supporting those facing trauma, loss, and major life changes. He has worked extensively with substance use recovery and chronic adjustment issues. He pays attention to family of origin patterns and how old responses show up in everyday life.

In the therapy room he favors a direct, nonjudgmental stance. Work usually mixes skill practice, reflection, and real-life experimentation between sessions. People who come to him often want tangible steps they can try and clear ways to measure progress.

He also helps with relationship struggles, parenting challenges, grief, eating and intimacy-related issues, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and career stress. Gregory aims to be a steady presence while clients try new approaches and make gradual changes.

How therapy approaches translate to online care

CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. Online CBT work often includes structured exercises, behavioral experiments, and homework that can be reviewed together during a video call or in messaging. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and build small committed actions toward those values. That work can be guided through brief exercises, emotion-focused reflection, and values-based goal setting in sessions or between meetings. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and aims to create more secure ways of relating; this approach often uses discussion and in-session reflection to notice patterns and try new responses.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Gregory works collaboratively to match methods to each person's goals, preferences, and real-world demands. He adjusts plans over time so methods feel useful and achievable rather than theoretical.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility: video lets people use visual cues for deeper conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging supports quick check-ins and shorter coaching-style contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to practice new skills between sessions.