About Cassandra
Cassandra Abel is a licensed clinical social worker with 12 years of experience helping people through tough life moments. She focuses on practical, down-to-earth support delivered with warmth and curiosity. Sessions aim to make clients feel noticed and respected.
Cassandra listens first and follows the client's pace. She uses a holistic outlook that links mind, body, and spirit. Her background as a yoga teacher and Zumba instructor informs how she blends breath, movement, and talk in sessions when it fits the person.
How Cassandra works
This can mean grounding exercises, movement-based ideas, or simple mindfulness practices alongside conversation. Her practice emphasizes concrete tools. People explore values, set small goals, and try behavioral steps between sessions.
Cassandra helps with anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, relationship problems, addiction concerns, ADHD, and job or identity questions. She also supports those facing caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, codependency, panic episodes, and self-harm or process addictions. Sessions aim to build coping skills and clearer decision-making rather than relying on long explanations alone.
Cassandra describes therapy as a partnership. She helps people notice what matters, test new ways of responding, and practice skills that reduce overwhelm. The work is steady, practical, and grounded in each person's values.
Cassandra lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Cassandra works with
The areas below are the ones Cassandra selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Wisconsin |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people name their values and take small steps toward a life that matters to them. It focuses on noticing thoughts and choosing actions based on personal values rather than getting stuck in unhelpful thinking. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors link together and teaches practical skills to shift patterns that cause distress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved relationships through concrete skills practice.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Cassandra will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. She adapts techniques over time so the plan stays relevant to what a person wants to change and how they prefer to work.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation and shared exercises, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging can support quick processing between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to continue work when travel or schedules change.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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