About Cassandra
Cassandra Golden Kruse is a licensed independent social worker who offers steady, experienced care for people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, relationship strain, or life changes. She writes plainly and meets people where they are, helping them name what matters and take small, useful steps forward.
With thirty years of experience, she aims to make therapy feel practical and doable for everyday life. Her work focuses on finding each person's strengths and values.
Background and approach
Sessions are a chance to spot habits and beliefs that get in the way. She helps people build skills to manage emotions, improve communication, and handle hard moments more calmly. Cassandra emphasizes a flexible, holistic approach rather than one fixed method.
She and the client shape a plan together that fits that person's goals and daily reality. That can mean practicing new ways to respond, shifting priorities, or strengthening supports outside therapy. She also pays attention to long-term concerns like trauma, addiction, caregiving stress, chronic illness, adoption and foster care issues, and attention-deficit challenges.
Work focuses on realistic steps to reduce suffering and increase satisfaction in ordinary life. Her style is collaborative and respectful. Cassandra values each person’s dignity and decision-making as therapy proceeds.
The focus is on practical change - so that time spent in therapy leads to clearer choices and a more livable day-to-day routine.
How practical therapeutic methods work online
Two evidence-based ways of working often used in her practice are skills training and values-based planning. Skills training focuses on teaching specific tools for coping with anxiety, managing anger, or handling cravings; clients practice those tools during and between sessions. Values-based planning helps people clarify what matters most and shape daily choices so life matches their priorities, which can reduce stress and increase motivation.Another common element is trauma-informed care that pays attention to safety and pacing. This approach helps when past hurt affects current relationships or mood by using gradual steps and grounding techniques to reduce overwhelm while rebuilding trust in daily routines.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will listen to your goals, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust as you learn what helps. Clients and therapist shape the plan together so it matches personal preferences, time constraints, and everyday demands.
Online sessions offer flexible ways to work. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skill practice and detailed conversation. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, homework review, and steady contact between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- 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
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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