Roc Kauffman

His legal name is Robert Kauffman, though he practices under the name Roc. He entered the counseling field after a long career in the home services business and ran an antique furniture repair studio while completing graduate school and internships.

For 21 years Roc has worked with people by focusing on their psychological needs rather than their property needs, bringing a practiced skill in attentive listening to his clinical work. He is licensed to practice as a mental health counselor in both Vermont and Massachusetts.

Roc emphasizes a client-centered, strengths-based approach. Early sessions focus on forming a therapeutic alliance as he and the client learn each other’s communication and learning styles. From there he and the client collaboratively develop treatment goals and a plan to reach them, building on existing abilities and resilience.

His clinical toolkit includes cognitive-behavioral assignments to keep clients engaged, insight work and cognitive interweaves, and motivational interviewing to help clear the path forward. He also draws on mindfulness practices supported by research for their capacity to change brain function, and he experiments with a range of techniques to find what fits each person.

Roc’s caseload spans adolescence through older adulthood and reflects a wide range of cultural diversity. He has extensive experience working with trauma, grief, and loss using phase-oriented approaches. He recognizes that early adversity often contributes to symptoms such as anxiety, depression, attachment and personality difficulties, mood instability, substance use, somatic complaints, or psychotic presentations, and he seeks to address underlying issues so those symptoms can lessen.

Roc looks forward to partnering with clients as they work toward greater capacity and recovery.