Jean Kilsheimer Caserta
Calm, practical support for families
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English, French
- Format
- Online sessions
About Jean
Jean Kilsheimer Caserta focuses on families and parenting concerns and aims to help parents and caregivers find practical support. She writes simply and listens closely. She meets people where they are and works to make therapy understandable and useful for everyday life.
Jean draws on 25 years of professional experience to guide parents through stress, anxiety, grief, and changes in family life. She uses familiar, practical methods so people can try things that fit their routines.
Background and approach
Sessions are meant to help with problem solving, communication, and coping skills rather than jargon or labels. Her path began in education and special services, working directly with students and families in schools. That classroom work led her to study marriage and family therapy at Nova Southeastern University in Davie, Florida.
She later practiced in school systems, church programs, and independent practice, bringing a family systems perspective to her work. Jean is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - LMFT - licensed in Florida (FL LMFT MT2119). She also has a Bachelor of Arts in Education and French and a Master of Science in Family Therapy.
Her background includes work with learning differences, ESOL learners, gifted students, and behavioral disorders. She speaks English and French and has worked with a wide range of family situations. Her approach leans on client-centered care and solution-focused methods, with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and narrative work when helpful.
Jean aims to be compassionate, nonjudgmental, and flexible while helping families navigate difficult moments.
How Jean’s approaches translate to online family support
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building understanding. Jean uses open conversation to help parents and caregivers name what matters most and decide what to try next. This approach is helpful when family members need a calm space to be heard.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. Jean uses simple CBT tools to change patterns like anxiety, stress, or low mood that affect family life. Motivational Interviewing is used when someone feels stuck and needs help finding reasons to try small, achievable changes.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Jean works collaboratively to match methods to a family’s goals, needs, and daily routines. She adjusts techniques over time so the plan fits what actually works for each household.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules. Video calls let parents and children join from home, while phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging offer flexible options for shorter check-ins or when video is not convenient. These formats support consistent contact and practical follow-through between meetings.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, French
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