- Client-centered guidance
- Practical coping skills
- Longstanding experience
About Cassandra
Cassandra Duff is a licensed mental health counselor who focuses on helping people feel heard and understood. She uses a client-centered approach to shape conversations around each person’s needs, and she combines practical techniques to address day-to-day struggles. Cassandra works from New York and speaks English.
With 19 years of experience, she has supported people dealing with stress, anxiety, anger, and depression. She also assists with relationship and intimacy-related issues, addiction concerns, bipolar mood challenges, and ADHD. Cassandra helps clients manage career stress and cope with life changes using clear, down-to-earth guidance.
Her style centers on listening first and then building a plan together. That means tailoring sessions to the kind of support someone needs, whether that looks like short-term skill building or longer conversations about deep patterns. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and on dialectical strategies to build emotion regulation skills when needed.
Cassandra also addresses concerns such as caregiver stress, commitment questions, family problems, guilt and shame, infidelity, loneliness, jealousy, money worries, multicultural issues, OCD-related behaviors, paranoia, and discrimination. She frames these topics in practical steps people can try between sessions.
Many clients come for help learning self-compassion and greater self-love, or for women’s issues and navigating life transitions. Cassandra aims to treat each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion while working at a pace that fits their life.
How Cassandra’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Cassandra uses client-centered therapy to make the session about what matters most to the person in front of her. That means listening first, then shaping the work around each person’s goals and pace. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and trying small behavior changes to improve mood and daily functioning. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing strong emotions and reducing impulsive reactions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Cassandra will discuss different methods and decide together which ones fit a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. The decision is collaborative and may shift over time as goals change.
Session logistics should be confirmed before booking because specific formats are not listed in the biography. Ask about available session options when you schedule. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life - it can reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins during a work break, or make it simpler to meet when schedules are tight. Licensed professionals can adapt tools from client-centered, CBT, and DBT approaches to online sessions to keep the work practical and focused on everyday problems.
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Experience
19+ years
Listed in
New York
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does Cassandra commonly help with?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, anger, addictions, relationship and intimacy-related issues, bipolar challenges, ADHD, and career or life-change stress.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Cassandra centers sessions on the client using a client-centered approach and combines that with practical CBT and DBT strategies when appropriate.
What is her professional background?
She has 19 years of clinical experience supporting people through emotional and behavioral concerns and life transitions.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is an LMHC and practices from New York.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the United States work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How are fees and billing handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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