Carolyn Sandel

Carolyn Sandel is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than 20 years of leadership experience in aging services. Before launching her own practice, she served as Executive Director at nationally recognized Boston-area nonprofits, most notably Goddard House Assisted Living in Brookline, Massachusetts. During her tenure there she led innovative programming and guided the organization to become Massachusetts's first assisted-living residence to be nationally accredited as an LGBTQ-affirming community through SAGECare, and she developed a dedicated Parkinson's support program for residents and caregivers.

While at Goddard House she was visible as the public face of the organization's culture initiatives — for example, in 2019 she launched an "Employee of the Quarter" recognition tradition tied to the organization's seven core values (compassion, respect, collaboration, responsiveness, excellence, innovation, and transparency). She is described as a leading expert in geriatric social work, with a personal motivation rooted partly in supporting a brother with special needs.

She subsequently founded Older Stronger Wiser Counseling, a private practice based in Florence/Northampton, in Western Massachusetts, providing mental-health counseling to older adults and their caregivers — in their own homes or via telehealth across Massachusetts, with licensure also covering Florida. Her clinical credentials and training include LICSW licensure, Certified Dementia Practitioner, Allied Team Training for Parkinson (ATTP), EMDR training, and certificates in Mindfulness and Psychotherapy, from the Institute for Mediation and Psychotherapy, and from the New York Zen Center's Foundations in Contemplative Care program.

Her evidence-based approach blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), EMDR, mindfulness, person-centered (Rogerian) therapy, Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), and Animal-Assisted Therapy, addressing anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, life transitions, chronic illness, and caregiver stress. Her stated philosophy: *"Therapy should feel safe, collaborative, and even, at times, infused with gentle humor."*

• No investment thesis could be verified. Carolyn Sandel is a clinician and former nonprofit executive, not a documented angel investor; the stub's "Seed Round / Angel Investors" framing is unsupported by any source found.
• Her professional "focus," in the only sense the record supports, is service delivery in geriatric mental health — supporting older adults, caregivers, and people with dementia, Parkinson's, chronic illness, grief, and LGBTQ+ elders.
• If a future re-verification confirms any investing role, it would need a primary source (a fund page, deal filing, or her own statement); none exists today.