About Cassandra
Cassandra Abel is a licensed clinical social worker who builds a calm, steady space where people can talk about what feels hard. She brings 12 years of practice to conversations about stress, grief, relationship struggles, addiction, and identity concerns. Cassandra meets each person with warmth and curiosity and listens without judgment so clients can name what matters to them.
Her background includes work that connects the body to emotion. She blends somatic ideas with mindfulness and movement informed by experience as a yoga teacher and Zumba instructor.
Background and approach
Sessions are adapted to the person in front of her, using breath, awareness, and practical skills when helpful. Cassandra uses several evidence-based approaches to shape the work. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and small committed steps.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps spot and shift patterns that keep people stuck. Dialectical Behavior Therapy and client-centered methods add practical coping skills and a respectful, collaborative stance. In a typical visit Cassandra helps people develop tools for managing panic, anxiety, low mood, and stress from caregiving or chronic illness.
She also supports folks facing addiction, codependency, or struggles with self-worth. Sessions aim to create clearer choices and steady progress rather than instant fixes. She practices in Wisconsin as Cassandra Abel, LCSW - licensed clinical social worker.
Conversations are in English and are adapted to the pace and goals each person brings. The focus is on helping people reconnect with what matters and build steady, doable skills for everyday life.
How somatic and evidence-based approaches work online
Somatic-informed work uses attention to the body to notice tension, breath patterns, and posture. Online sessions can guide simple body awareness and grounding exercises that help people identify where stress lives in the body and bring immediate relief.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters and take small committed actions toward those values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transition work by focusing on meaningful steps rather than perfect outcomes.
Client-centered therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship. The therapist listens deeply and follows the person’s lead while offering reflections and support to build clarity and self-compassion.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then try methods together and adjust as needed. This keeps sessions practical and focused on day-to-day changes.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, maintain continuity during life changes, and practice skills between sessions. Licensed professionals can guide breathing, movement, and cognitive tools just as they would in person, while allowing people to work from a comfortable place at home.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English