About Cassandra
Cassandra Fraser is an AASW credentialed counsellor with seven years of experience working with people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She offers a calm, respectful presence and practical support for parents and individuals facing family conflict or the lingering effects of trauma and abuse. Her sessions are conversational and tailored to each person.
Cassandra listens first, then helps clients identify manageable goals. She uses plain language and short-term strategies alongside deeper work when needed.
Background and approach
Cassandra draws on client-centred approaches to make clients feel heard. She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to help people change unhelpful thinking patterns. For those affected by past harm, she brings trauma-focused work that moves at a pace the client sets.
People come to Cassandra for help with parenting stress, difficult life transitions, and relationship tensions within blended or adoptive families. She also supports carers dealing with burnout and people working through grief, guilt or a lost sense of purpose. Sessions aim to build practical coping skills and clearer choices.
Cassandra helps clients practise new ways of responding to anxiety and stress between appointments. Her style is straightforward, compassionate and focused on small, real changes.
Approaches that suit online support
Cassandra uses client-centred work to build a trusting conversation. This approach focuses on listening and reflecting so clients feel understood, which helps when discussing stress, family concerns or parenting strain.She also draws on cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to identify and change patterns of thinking and behaviour that worsen anxiety. CBT tools translate well to online formats and can include short exercises to try between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Cassandra will discuss your goals and preferences and adapt methods as you go. She aims to match techniques to what you find most helpful and to adjust pace for trauma-related work.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video lets you work more like an in-person session, while phone calls need less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and messaging suit brief check-ins or when writing things out helps you think more clearly. These options make it easier to fit therapy into daily life and keep progress moving between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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