About Cassandra
Cassandra Tordosinsky is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 13 years of experience in Michigan. She helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, trauma, ADHD, and life transitions. Her work often focuses on practical steps and using a client's strengths to make change.
She welcomes people who need a listening ear or a partner for decision-making. Cassandra uses a person-centered approach that puts the client in the lead.
Background and approach
She listens without judgment and helps people name their goals. From there she applies solution-focused strategies to build on what already works in a person's life. She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to examine how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact.
That approach is practical and aimed at helping people try different responses to old patterns. Cassandra encourages clients to test new habits between sessions and to notice what changes. People coming for help with grief, relationship strain, intimacy issues, eating or sleeping concerns will find concrete tools and supportive conversation.
She also offers support for career stress, compassion fatigue, caregiving strain, and other long-term challenges. Sessions may include skill building, coaching-style feedback, and emotion-focused reflection. Cassandra runs a small independent practice called Authentic Living Counseling and integrates coaching elements when useful.
She aims to help people move toward clearer choices and more manageable daily routines. Her tone is straightforward, steady, and focused on what will help next.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Cassandra commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and to take action that matches their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Cassandra collaborates with each client to choose techniques that match their goals and preferences. She will talk through options, try methods in session, and adjust based on what helps most over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy fit different schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper emotional work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging make it simple to check in during busy days or to get brief coaching-style support without a full session.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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