About Deborra
Deborra "Cassandra" Rikard is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Mississippi with 11 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, ADHD, and major life changes. She aims to make the first step easier for someone who wants a more balanced life.
Rikard builds sessions around a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about what matters most to them.
Background and approach
She listens for practical patterns and helps people find small changes that can make daily life feel more manageable. Conversations are straightforward and aimed at real problems, not labels.
Her work covers a broad range of concerns beyond the core areas, including adoption and foster care questions, blended family issues, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, and coping after divorce or separation. She also helps people who struggle with control issues, impulsivity, isolation, and midlife transitions. Sessions are practical and goal-oriented.
Clients can expect help breaking large problems into smaller, doable steps and planning experiments to try between meetings. The focus is on skills that fit daily routines and personal priorities. Rikard offers services in English and conducts video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
She works with a subscription model for sessions that can be canceled at any time, and she helps clients match to a schedule that fits their life.
Evidence-Based Approaches and Online Care
Deborra "Cassandra" Rikard uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage symptoms and improve daily functioning. One common approach she uses focuses on building practical coping skills to reduce anxiety and stress. This approach teaches concrete strategies to manage overwhelming thoughts, organize day-to-day tasks, and build routines that support emotional balance.Another approach emphasizes goal-setting and problem solving for life changes and depressive symptoms. It breaks problems into smaller steps, sets achievable goals, and reviews what worked or didn’t work between sessions. This method is helpful for people who feel stuck and want a clear plan to move forward.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. She will work with each person to identify goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they try methods and adjust the plan based on what helps in real life.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow a face-to-face feel when schedules permit, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging lets people share updates or questions between meetings. These options offer flexibility to fit work, caregiving, and busy days while keeping therapy consistent.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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