About Cassandra
Cassandra Gadouas is a Florida-based licensed mental health counselor with 25 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, and issues around self-esteem. She also offers support for trauma and abuse, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain, and career or life transitions.
In sessions she uses straightforward language and practical steps. Conversations are tailored to each person's situation and paced to match comfort and readiness.
Background and approach
Cassandra emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion while helping people find what works for them. Her approach draws on several evidence-informed methods to address strong emotions, painful memories, and patterns that get in the way of daily life. She helps people build skills for handling panic, impulsivity, anger, and isolation.
When trauma is part of the story, she includes strategies meant to reduce emotional flooding and rebuild a sense of safety. Cassandra also supports people wrestling with relationship patterns like codependency, communication breakdowns, control issues, and blended family stress. She offers coaching-style work for career choices, life purpose, and midlife changes when someone wants clearer direction.
Sessions are offered in English and are available to people located in Florida as well as international clients. Her style aims to be clear and actionable so people leave each session with tangible next steps and a sense of forward movement.
How therapeutic methods translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life steps, which can reduce panic, mood symptoms, and problematic behavior. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is a trauma-focused approach that aims to reduce the intensity of traumatic memories and their emotional impact through guided processing.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss these methods with the person and together decide which fits best based on goals, comfort, and what has or hasn't helped in the past. That collaborative process can evolve as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging suit brief check-ins, homework review, or people who prefer written communication. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life and to continue therapy when schedules or locations change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English