Jean Kilsheimer Caserta

Jean Kilsheimer Caserta is a Florida-based licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 25 years of clinical experience who approaches her work with care, competence, compassion, courtesy, confidence, acceptance, and flexibility. She works with people of all ages, races, genders, religions, and sexual orientations, and with clients who present multiple concerns.

Her professional journey began in education, where she taught students and partnered with families. Observing the diverse backgrounds and family situations that shape children led her to train as a Behavioral Specialist. That experience reinforced her belief that children are influenced by the family and environmental systems around them rather than being defined by labels.

Motivated to better understand those systems, she completed graduate study in Family Systemic Therapy and earned a master of science degree in Family Therapy from Nova Southeastern University in Davie, Florida. She holds a Florida license as a Marriage and Family Therapist (FL LMFT MT2119) and has provided services in Florida school systems, church programs, and private practice.

Jean draws from a range of therapeutic methods to match each client’s needs, including client-centered, solution-focused, narrative, play, brief strategic, problem-solving, and cognitive behavioral therapies. Her background as an educator and behavioral specialist informs a practical, systems-minded approach to common concerns such as stress, anxiety, grief, parenting and family conflicts, depression, addictions, relationship issues, anger management, self-esteem, career difficulties, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, and ADHD.

Her personal history also shaped her career path. Raised in a large Irish-German Catholic family with five sisters, she witnessed family expectations and tensions firsthand. Her mother’s early life in a New York City orphanage, later placement in a foster home, and lifelong struggles with anxiety, depression, and alcoholism left a mark that encouraged Jean to develop compassion and a commitment to helping others. A pivotal encounter with a psychiatrist after Jean experienced postpartum depression and generalized anxiety led her to pursue family therapy professionally.

Jean studied French in college, attending Immaculata University in Pennsylvania, Laval University in Quebec, and participating in study abroad programs in Paris and Normandy. Her undergraduate degree is a Bachelor of Arts in Education and French, and she holds endorsements on her professional teaching certificate for ESOL, gifted education, specific learning disabilities, and multiple behavioral disorders.

She is a mother of three married adult children, a grandmother to seven grandchildren, and has been married for 46 years. If her background and approach resonate, Jean welcomes the opportunity to work with individuals and families seeking support.