About Raoul
Dr. Raoul Kaufman helps people facing grief, eating and food-related struggles, parenting challenges, low self-esteem, and life coaching needs. He brings four decades of clinical experience to each conversation.
He works with respect and patience and aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable. He keeps sessions straightforward and focused. Dr.
Kaufman uses approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Existential Therapy, and Mindfulness to address thoughts, values, and present-moment coping.
How Raoul works
He also draws on psychodynamic ideas and solution-focused strategies when they fit a person's goals. Sessions often include talking through recent difficulties, identifying unhelpful thought patterns, and trying small experiments between meetings. He pays attention to how past relationships and life events shape current struggles, while also helping people set short-term goals they can test quickly.
Practical tools and reflective conversation are mixed depending on what each person needs. Dr. Kaufman's background as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California spans 40 years.
That experience informs a calm, steady style aimed at helping people regain confidence and clarity. He supports concerns ranging from caregiver stress and aging-related issues to body image, chronic pain and illness, guilt, and isolation. People come for help with communication and commitment worries, fatherhood questions, life purpose, or the emotional impact of first responder work.
Sessions are offered in English and are available by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and scheduling follows.
Raoul lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Raoul works with
The areas below are the ones Raoul selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Grief
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 40 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Approaches you can use online
Dr. Kaufman commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy in online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on how thoughts and behaviors interact and offers concrete steps to change patterns that fuel anxiety, low mood, eating struggles, or relationship problems. Mindfulness Therapy trains attention to the present moment and teaches people practical ways to reduce reactivity and manage distressing feelings.He also integrates Existential Therapy when questions about meaning, life purpose, or identity come up. Existential work looks at values and choices and can help when someone feels emptiness, guilt, or uncertainty about direction. Choosing an approach is collaborative; the therapist will help figure out what fits the client's goals, needs, and preferences and adjust methods as work progresses.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and full interaction, phone sessions can fit a quick check-in or work around bandwidth limits, and chat or messaging supports shorter, ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent during busy or unpredictable weeks.
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