About Aleksander
Aleksander Casas draws on eight years of clinical work to help people carry the hard parts of life. He is an Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, LCPC, who uses straightforward talk and practical skills to help clients manage stress, anxiety, grief, and major life changes. He believes many struggles are not signs of failure but signals that something needs attention.
Sessions focus on understanding what matters to the client and finding small steps that fit daily life.
How Aleksander works
Aleksander blends evidence-informed strategies and a person-centered attitude to create a calm, goal-focused space. His approach often includes techniques from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to address mood, behavior, and coping skills. He also draws on attachment-focused ideas to help people with relationship and intimacy concerns.
People come to him for a wide range of issues such as addiction, depression, trauma and abuse, ADHD, parenting stress, and identity-related concerns. He pays attention to how past experiences shape current patterns and works to build healthier habits and clearer communication. Aleksander aims to balance practical coping tools with deeper reflection.
Sessions move at the client’s pace and focus on what the client wants to change. He offers telehealth work to help people fit therapy into busy lives.
Aleksander lists 18 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
What Aleksander works with
The areas below are the ones Aleksander selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- 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
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- 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
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Aleksander often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. ACT supports work on anxiety, depression, and life transitions by teaching simple practices to stay present and act purposefully.He also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT is useful for stress, mood shifts, eating and sleeping problems, and many everyday challenges where small changes can lead to real relief.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Aleksander will collaborate with each person to decide which methods match their goals and needs. That plan can change as progress is made, keeping the work practical and client driven.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit a break at work or when video is not possible, live chat and messaging support shorter check-ins and ongoing coaching between longer meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and maintain continuity of care.
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