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csandel@olderstrongerwisercounseling.com | 413-367-5630

csandel@olderstrongerwisercounseling.com | 413-367-5630

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    About Carolyn Sandel

    Carolyn Sandel, LICSW is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 20 years of leadership experience in the aging services field. She works with adults and older adults navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, life transitions, caregiving stress, grief, and relationship challenges.

    Before founding Older Stronger Wiser Counseling, Carolyn served as Executive Director of nationally recognized nonprofit organizations in the Boston area. At Goddard House Assisted Living, she led innovative programs, including guiding the community to become the first assisted living residence in Massachusetts to receive national accreditation through SAGECare as an LGBTQ-affirming community. She also developed a Parkinson’s support program serving individuals living with Parkinson’s and other movement disorders, as well as their caregivers.

    Carolyn brings this depth of experience into her clinical work, offering a compassionate, grounded, and practical approach. She understands the emotional complexity of caregiving, aging, identity shifts, and health-related stressors.

    Her therapeutic approach is holistic and evidence-based. She integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), mindfulness-based therapy, and empowerment-focused strategies to help clients process trauma, reduce anxiety and depression, build coping skills, and create meaningful change. She holds a Certification in Mindfulness and Psychotherapy and thoughtfully incorporates mind-body techniques into treatment.

    Carolyn believes therapy should feel safe, collaborative, and even, at times, infused with gentle humor. Her goal is to help clients feel stronger, more resilient, and more connected to the life they want to live.
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    Credentials

    Licensed Clinical Social Worker
    Certified Dementia Practitioner
    Allied Team Training for Parkinson Professional
    Certificate from Foundations in Contemplative Care NY Zen Center
    Certificate from the Institute for Mediation and Psychotherapy 
    EMDR Trained

    Values

    Our core style is centered on compassion and understanding for the challenges we all face. Our focus on “the whole” person, mind, body, and spirit, is designed to weave together a personal, individualized approach to care for each of our clients

    Older
    We have a deep understanding and compassion for the challenges faced by older adults and their caregivers including, isolation, life transitions and chronic illness.

    Stronger
    We provide support to strengthen independence by focusing on building on individual strength, interest, and abilities to help older adults and individuals with chronic illness achieve their best lives

    Wiser

    We believe that well being and a higher quality of life can be achieved through support and resources to help individuals learn the techniques and skills to grow from the past and make the best designs for their future.

    Testimonials

    Carolyn always took a personal interest in our mother in all cases she responded with compassion, going “beyond the call of duty in support of us and our mom. Carolyn is by all standards an individual of sustained superior character, professionalism and carriage.
    • Wendy (Daughter of client)
    Carolyn Sandel, LICSW, a thoughtful, caring mental health practitioner, is an ardent advocate for older adults. The helping relationships she forms with clients empower them to exercise their autonomy and achieve optimum well-being in potentially overwhelming, depressing and challenging life, health and/or family situations. A consummate professional, she is skilled, responsive and always supportive.
    —Marie Curcio, MSW
    I have witnessed firsthand Carolyn’s caring qualities, and patience with the elderly population and families that we served, I witnessed her knowledge, charm, and the need to be helpful, and to be of service to this population, her passion is evident to all who come in contact with her, Carolyn is someone you can count on when you are faced with challenges both clinically and professionally. Carolyn is someone that I would seek out for empathy, sympathy and diplomacy, and count on heavily for her objective point of views.
    -News Marcellus,LPN
    In my many experiences with Carolyn, she has exhibited a deep sense of compassion for others, as well as a commitment to help others live their best lives. Counselors like Carolyn have the ability to demonstrate both a strong intellect and problem-solving ability while using a warm gentle approach in her communication style.
    – Lance,  Longtime fellow caregiver
    Carolyn is kind, compassionate, and easy to talk to. She thinks outside the box, especially when it comes to problem-solving and navigating challenges. She is trustworthy and a true advocate for whomever she is serving, providing consistent and reliable support, always!
    • Rebecca M. Enchriched Life Director

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