About Cassandra
Cassandra Vallese is a licensed clinical social worker in New York with 12 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, and life transitions. Cassandra approaches therapy as a partnership and treats each person as the expert on their own life.
Her work focuses on practical steps and steady support. She helps clients sort through difficult feelings and learn coping skills that fit day-to-day life. Sessions are straightforward and centered on what a person needs right now.
How Cassandra works
Cassandra also addresses concerns such as addiction, mood disorders, ADHD, and issues tied to identity and relationships. She offers guidance around eating and body image, caregiving strain, and challenges that come with serious illness or aging. Her background includes a broad range of clinical settings across New York.
The therapeutic style is collaborative and strengths-based. Cassandra looks for realistic changes people can try between sessions and checks in on what helps. Conversations are aimed at building confidence, reducing overwhelming symptoms, and restoring clearer routines.
People who want calm, direct support tend to find her approach useful. She supports clients through both short-term crises and longer journeys of change. Cassandra meets people where they are and works alongside them toward manageable progress.
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.
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
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches that guide online care
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques tend to focus on practical skills and structured conversation. One common method helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and practice alternative ways of responding to stress and anxiety. This approach is useful for panic, social anxiety, low mood, and day-to-day worries.Another approach emphasizes processing difficult experiences and building coping strategies for trauma, grief, and compassion fatigue. It supports people in naming strong emotions, learning grounding tools, and restoring routine after disruption.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work with each person to decide which methods feel most useful, based on their goals, history, and what they want to get from therapy. Adjustments are made as progress unfolds so the plan stays relevant.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to add flexibility. Video lets people use face-to-face interaction when that helps, phone sessions are a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and messaging or live chat supports ongoing contact between calls. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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