About Kim
Kim Cassano is a licensed clinical social worker with over 30 years in mental health and substance use work. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, addiction struggles, and life transitions. Her approach is practical and direct, aimed at giving clear steps people can use between sessions.
She uses Client-Centered Therapy to build a respectful, nonjudgmental space where clients guide the pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavioral changes that make daily life easier.
Background and approach
These methods are used to address depression, grief, relationship concerns, parenting strain, and many other problems listed in her specialties. Kim has experience supporting adults, older adults, teens, and preteens in various settings over her career. She emphasizes straightforward conversation and concrete strategies rather than jargon.
Sessions tend to focus on problem-solving, coping skills, and realistic goal-setting. Clients often work on things like sleep and eating concerns, managing bipolar symptoms, handling career stress, or addressing substance use. She also helps people dealing with attachment and abandonment worries, caregiver stress, and chronic illness challenges.
Based in New Jersey, Kim offers multiple session formats to suit different needs. She combines long-term work with shorter coaching-style supports depending on what a person needs at the time.
How Kim’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy places the person’s experience at the center of the work. In practice this means Kim listens closely, follows the client’s pace, and helps people name what matters most to them. This approach can help with feeling overwhelmed, relationship distress, and navigating life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Kim uses CBT to help clients spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try small behavior changes that reduce anxiety, improve sleep, or ease depressive symptoms.
Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy process. Kim works collaboratively to match methods to a person’s goals and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made. Clients take an active role in deciding what to try and when to shift focus.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversations and visual connection. Phone sessions can fit a busy day or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, quick coaching, or ongoing support between fuller sessions. These options make it easier to continue consistent work, fit therapy around work or caregiving, and try different rhythms until the right one is found.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English