About Kassandra
Kassandra Freeman offers supportive, strengths-based care for people navigating stress, anxiety, family conflict, grief and loss, depression, and major life changes.
Background and approach
With a decade of clinical experience and an Illinois LCSW license, she helps clients explore patterns that contribute to distress while fostering practical coping skills and clearer communication. Her work emphasizes a nonjudgmental space where clients can voice difficult thoughts and emotions and begin shaping meaningful change.
Drawing on an integrative mix of approaches - including client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness practices, motivational interviewing, and narrative work - she tailors interventions to each person’s needs. Kassandra also brings focused experience addressing issues such as abandonment, attachment difficulties, body image, chronic illness and pain, caregiver stress, blended family dynamics, and related concerns.
She aims to empower clients to set realistic goals, build resilience, and strengthen relationships through collaborative, evidence-informed care.
Approaches for online healing and practical change
Kassandra draws from client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy to guide online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on empathetic listening and helping clients feel heard so they can explore emotions and make their own changes; it is useful for building trust and working through family or relational concerns. Cognitive behavioral therapy provides concrete tools to identify unhelpful thoughts and shift behavior patterns, which is helpful for anxiety, depression, stress, and coping with life transitions.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She will work together with clients to identify goals, try methods that match their preferences, and adjust course when something is not working, so the therapeutic path reflects each person’s needs and pace.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited travel options. These options allow regular contact, ongoing skill practice between sessions, and quicker access to support while maintaining the same clinical focus and professional standards as in-person work.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English