About Aleksander
Aleksander Casas is a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) who helps people navigate life stressors and emotional overwhelm. He frames therapy as a guided space to sort through thoughts and feelings. Sessions are offered online in a telehealth format that many clients find convenient.
Aleksander draws on practical, goal-focused methods that aim to identify root causes of distress. He uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to notice unhelpful thinking patterns and to develop new coping skills.
Background and approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps clients clarify values and take meaningful steps when worry or avoidance gets in the way. He also works with approaches that look at attachment and relational patterns. Those methods help people understand how early bonds affect current relationships and how to build healthier connection habits.
Aleksander combines this with a client-centered stance that keeps each person’s goals central to the process. Over eight years of practice he has helped people with anxiety, depression, stress, addictions, grief, trauma, and relationship struggles. He also supports concerns such as sleep and eating difficulties, ADHD, caregiver stress, and challenges tied to identity and intimacy.
Sessions are offered in English and Aleksander accepts international clients. People can use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit therapy into busy lives. He encourages a collaborative approach to find what works best for each person.
How his approaches translate to online therapy
Aleksander uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and decide what matters most. ACT focuses on values and small actions that move someone toward a meaningful life, which can help with anxiety, depression, and avoidance.He also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT gives concrete skills for managing worry, improving sleep, and changing habits tied to mood or compulsive behaviors.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Aleksander treats therapy as a collaborative process and will help clients pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. He adjusts techniques over time based on what helps a person make steady progress.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations when visual cues matter. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a short, focused check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging provide flexibility for brief updates or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit consistent sessions into busy schedules and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- 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