About Kassandra
Kassandra Freeman is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, family conflict, grief and depression. She speaks plainly and offers steady support for those ready to make changes in their life. Her approach is patient and down-to-earth, aimed at helping people feel heard and understood.
She builds an open space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgment. Sessions focus on practical steps and clearer thinking so daily life becomes easier to manage.
Background and approach
Kassandra encourages small, realistic changes that add up over time. Her work blends client-centered conversations with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness. That means listening closely, then suggesting ways to notice and shift patterns of thinking and reacting.
She also uses narrative ideas to help people reframe their life stories and motivational interviewing to support goals and readiness for change. With ten years of experience as an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker - in Illinois, she can draw on a range of approaches to match a person’s needs.
People often come for help with coping through transitions, managing symptoms after trauma, or improving communication in strained relationships. Kassandra aims to collaborate so clients leave sessions with clear next steps. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels.
Getting started is straightforward and done through an online matching and scheduling process.
Approaches That Translate Well to Online Therapy
Client-centered work focuses on listening and responding to each person’s experience. In online sessions this looks like building a trusting conversation where the client leads the topics and the therapist reflects and asks helpful questions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people see connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions and then try small experiments to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress when practical tools are needed.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will review needs, goals, and preferences and then recommend or combine methods. That collaborative planning helps ensure sessions focus on what matters to the client, whether that is short-term relief or longer-term changes.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful when visual cues matter and for deeper conversational work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit quick updates, brief coaching, or people who prefer writing. These options make scheduling more flexible and help therapy fit into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English