About Cassondra
Cassondra DeLuce Jankowski welcomes people who are overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or changes in family life. She is a licensed clinical social worker who writes simply and directly to help parents and adults understand what to expect. Sessions are approachable and aimed at clear steps forward rather than jargon-filled explanations.
Cassondra spent years working in hospital settings with children, adolescents, young adults, and their families. She earned a Master of Social Work from The University of South Carolina in 2018 and holds a bachelor’s degree in Counseling Psychology from Johnson and Wales University.
Background and approach
Over seven years of practice have focused much of her time on eating and body image concerns, trauma, mood disorders, and coping with major life stressors. In appointments she helps people break problems into smaller parts. Conversations cover mood, anxiety, behavior, and how family patterns affect daily life.
She draws on approaches like cognitive behavioral strategies, skills from dialectical approaches, and acceptance and commitment ideas, tailoring them to each person’s needs. Cassondra also supports parents dealing with grief, adoption and foster care issues, blended family challenges, and caregiver stress.
She works with people facing abuse, domestic violence, or disruptive mood and regulation problems, and she helps with communication and codependency concerns. Her practical focus is on setting small goals, practicing new skills, and improving day-to-day routines. Cassondra is licensed as an LCSW and practices from New York, offering short-term problem solving and longer-term support as needed.
How evidence-informed approaches translate to online care
Cassondra uses several evidence-based approaches adapted for online sessions. Cognitive behavioral strategies focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them in everyday life to reduce anxiety and low mood. Dialectical skills provide concrete tools for managing strong emotions and improving relationships through emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills. Acceptance and commitment ideas help people clarify values and take small committed actions, which can be useful for motivation and coping with change.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to choose techniques that match their goals and daily life. Over time the plan is adjusted based on what is helping and what is not, so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer conversations and skills practice. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, homework support, and flexible contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around school, work, and caregiving duties.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Texas, South Carolina, New York
- Languages
- English