About Cassandra
Cassandra Vallese is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in New York with 12 years of experience supporting people through hard times. She focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and the fallout from trauma and abuse. Cassandra works from a strengths-based perspective and sees clients as the experts in their own lives.
She listens for practical patterns that make daily life harder and helps people build small, doable changes.
Background and approach
Conversations often include ways to manage overwhelming feelings, reduce avoidance, and organize routines that support focus and stability. She also addresses addictions, mood fluctuations, and relationship or career concerns. Cassandra brings an empathic, straightforward style to sessions.
She helps clients name goals and tries out strategies together, adjusting what doesn’t fit. The work is collaborative and paced to each person’s comfort level. Many people find her approach useful when facing big transitions such as loss, caregiver stress, health challenges, or the persistent strain of burnout and compassion fatigue.
She also supports those dealing with eating issues, fertility and cancer-related stress, and the emotional needs that come with aging or hospice care. Cassandra offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different schedules and routines. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time, and she sees clients who connect from within the United States.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Cassandra uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach helps people learn skills to manage strong emotions and reduce avoidance by practicing new reactions in everyday situations. This approach is useful for anxiety, panic, and mood symptoms. Another strand of work emphasizes building routines, organizing tasks, and improving focus and self-care to ease stress and support people with attention challenges like ADHD.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Cassandra will discuss options, try methods that match a client’s goals, and adjust the plan over time. She aims to make therapy collaborative so people can see what helps and what needs to change.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles. Video allows longer, face-to-face conversation; phone calls can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or a quieter voice check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, reminders, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These formats give flexibility to fit therapy into workdays, caregiving schedules, or other routines.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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