About Cassandra
Cassandra Abel is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 12 years of experience helping people navigate hard moments. She creates a calm, respectful space where clients can talk through what feels heavy and decide what they want to change. Her tone is warm and curious and she treats each person as the expert on their own life.
She leans on a holistic view that connects mind, body, and spirit. Cassandra brings in mindfulness and movement techniques drawn from her background as a yoga teacher and Zumba instructor.
Background and approach
Sessions are tailored to what each person needs that week and move at a pace that feels right. Her work often focuses on relationship strain, stress and anxiety, grief, trauma and abuse, and addiction-related concerns. Cassandra also supports people managing caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, and struggles around self-esteem and life purpose.
ADHD is one of the concerns she lists among her focus areas. In session she blends direct skill teaching with reflective listening. Clients may practice grounding, learn strategies for managing panic or intrusive thoughts, or map values-based goals to everyday routines.
She prioritizes practical tools people can use between meetings. People come away from sessions with clearer priorities and portable coping tools. Over time the process aims to reduce reactivity, improve day-to-day functioning, and help people make choices that align with their values.
Cassandra works from Wisconsin and offers multiple online formats to fit different needs.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking small, value-driven steps toward those goals. It can help when life feels scattered or motivation is low. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to shift unhelpful patterns; it is often useful for anxiety, depression, and panic symptoms. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience, using listening and reflection to strengthen self-understanding and self-direction in decision making.Choosing the right approach is a process. Cassandra will work together with each person to test methods and find what fits their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative process might include trying skills from more than one approach and adjusting as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and do longer sessions, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth or background noise is an issue. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when someone prefers writing to talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping focus on meaningful change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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