About Aleksander
Aleksander Casas is a licensed clinical professional counselor with eight years of experience helping people manage life stress and anxiety. He practices from Illinois and welcomes people who are ready to talk through what feels heavy. He frames therapy as a place to learn, not a sign something is wrong.
Aleksander uses straightforward conversation to get to the root of what someone is feeling and thinking. He encourages small, practical steps that can ease day-to-day strain.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on building skills that fit into a person's routine. He draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and acceptance-based ideas to make room for difficult feelings. Attachment-informed work helps when past relationships shape current patterns.
He also uses client-centered methods that let the person lead the pace and focus of sessions. People come for many reasons including stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction concerns, and struggles with intimacy or self-esteem. Aleksander also addresses sleep and eating concerns, burnout and compassion fatigue, ADHD, and life transitions.
He works with a broad range of personal and career-related challenges. Therapy typically takes place through telehealth formats that fit busy lives. Aleksander helps people set goals and choose skills that are doable between sessions.
He aims to make the process clear and practical so progress feels real and steady.
How his approaches work online
Aleksander uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice patterns of thinking that feed anxiety and stress, then practice different ways of responding. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is used to teach how to make room for difficult feelings while moving toward what matters most. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship experiences shape current behavior and helps people change those recurring patterns. Finding the right approach usually happens together. The therapist will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your needs and preferences. If something doesn’t feel helpful, he will adjust the plan so sessions stay useful and relevant. Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video works well for deeper conversations and using visual tools. Phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can help with quick support, skill reminders, and staying connected between sessions.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
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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
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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