About Cassandra
Cassandra Sams is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Licensed Professional Counselor with 23 years of experience. She brings a steady, practiced approach to common stresses like anxiety and depression. Parents reading this will find clear language and direct support rather than clinical jargon.
Across her career she spent time at a Children's Advocacy Center and an adolescent treatment facility. She also practiced in personal and family counseling settings. That background means she has worked with a wide range of concerns including self-injury, sexual trauma, low self-esteem, and mood disorders.
Background and approach
In sessions she mixes client-centered ways of working with cognitive behavioral ideas. That means conversations focus on what matters to the client, paired with practical steps to shift thoughts and behaviors. She also uses creative tools like art activities when that helps someone see a problem differently.
Cassandra emphasizes listening first. She aims to make people feel heard and understood before introducing exercises or tools. Her style is collaborative - clients set the goals and she helps plan the steps to reach them.
She has a Specialist in Education degree from Georgia State University and holds licensure in Georgia and Florida as LMHC and LPC. Work is offered in English and she accepts international clients. Sessions include video calls, phone, live chat, and text messaging.
How her approaches fit online work
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and following the client's lead. It focuses on building a trusting relationship and helping people identify their own goals. This approach is helpful for navigating life changes, grief, self-esteem concerns, and relationship strain.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. It uses straightforward exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and try new actions. CBT is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and stress management because it offers concrete tools to practice between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods match their needs, goals, and day-to-day life. She may combine listening-focused strategies with CBT techniques or add creative exercises when useful.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be a quicker check-in or useful when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging are handy for brief updates or reflection between meetings. These options give flexibility and help people maintain momentum during life transitions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Georgia, Florida
- Languages
- English
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