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About Aleksander
Aleksander Casas is a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) with eight years of experience helping people navigate complex life challenges.
Background and approach
He frames difficult feelings as signals to explore rather than failures to fix, and he offers a collaborative telehealth setting where clients can examine thoughts, emotions, and patterns that contribute to stress and overwhelm. Aleksander emphasizes practical strategies alongside deeper meaning work so clients can address immediate symptoms while also working toward longer-term change.
He draws on several evidence-informed approaches including acceptance and commitment work, attachment-focused perspectives, and cognitive-behavioral interventions to tailor care to each person’s needs. His scope includes concerns such as anxiety, depression, trauma, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, ADHD, eating and sleeping problems, career stress, and caregiver strain, among others.
Aleksander accepts international clients and conducts sessions from Illinois in English using video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, with scheduling managed through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
Practical Approaches Applied Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without letting those experiences dictate their behavior, and it supports building a values-driven life through small, meaningful steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress, often through structured exercises and skill practice. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationship patterns influence present-day connections and emotional responses, offering a path to clearer communication and more supported relating when attachment wounds are identified.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Aleksander works collaboratively to find techniques that match a client's goals, preferences, and life context. He combines methods when helpful and adjusts focus over time so work remains relevant and effective for each individual's needs.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility for people balancing work, caregiving, or distance. These formats allow regular contact, timely skill practice, and continuity of care while making it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, and licensed professionals can tailor session type and frequency to what will work best for the client.
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does Aleksander address?
He works with a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, relationship and intimacy challenges, grief, ADHD, eating and sleeping problems, career concerns, and caregiver stress.
What is Aleksander's therapeutic style?
His approach combines acceptance-oriented methods, attachment-informed perspectives, and cognitive-behavioral techniques to balance skills-based work with exploration of underlying patterns.
How much clinical experience does he have?
He has eight years of experience supporting people through varied life challenges and transitions.
Where is Aleksander licensed and practicing?
He is licensed in Illinois as an LCPC with license number IL LCPC 180.013764 and offers services from that location.
Can Aleksander work with people outside the United States?
Yes, he accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English.
What session formats are available for therapy?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to accommodate different preferences and needs.
How is pricing handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How does one begin working with Aleksander?
To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to his availability.
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