About Aleksander
Aleksander Casas is a licensed professional counselor (LCPC) practicing from Illinois. He brings eight years of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, trauma, and related life challenges. He aims to make therapy a practical time to slow down and tackle what feels overwhelming.
Aleksander uses a mix of body-aware and evidence-informed approaches. He pays attention to how feelings show up in the body while also working on thoughts, values, and relationships.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and grounded, with a focus on what a person can try between meetings. People often come for help with grief, intimacy concerns, sleep and eating struggles, parental stress, or workplace pressures. He also supports those coping with ADHD, bipolar mood shifts, and compassion fatigue.
Aleksander includes attention to attachment patterns and relationship dynamics when relevant. His style leans toward practical tools and steady curiosity. He helps clients notice bodily signals, develop coping skills, and clarify personal values so they can make small, meaningful changes.
Conversations aim to be direct but compassionate. Sessions are available through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. International clients are accepted and English is used for sessions.
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
How body-aware and talk therapy work online
Aleksander combines somatic-informed approaches with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Attachment-Based ideas. Somatic-informed work focuses on noticing sensations and how stress shows up in the body, which can help with trauma, anxiety, and chronic stress. ACT helps people clarify what matters to them and take actions that match those values while accepting difficult feelings. Attachment-Based ideas look at patterns in relationships and how early bonds shape current reactions and expectations.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Aleksander will work together with clients to see which methods fit their needs and goals. That means trying different techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan over time so therapy stays useful and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit appointments into a busy life and to continue work between sessions. They also allow people to access therapy from different locations and keep momentum through short messages or longer video conversations when useful.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English