About Cassandra
Cassandra Sams is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a Licensed Professional Counselor with 23 years of experience. She brings decades of work across clinical settings to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and life changes. Her approach is straightforward and down-to-earth, aimed at making therapy feel approachable for worried parents and busy adults.
She has worked in settings that included a Children’s Advocacy Center, an adolescent treatment facility, independent practice, and a family counseling center.
Background and approach
That background gives her experience with young adult issues, parenting questions, and concerns that often affect family life. Cassandra also supports people navigating LGBT issues, bipolar mood concerns, trauma and abuse, and self-esteem struggles. Cassandra blends client-centered methods with cognitive behavioral therapy.
She often uses creative tools, such as art-based exercises, to help clients see problems from a new angle. Sessions focus on practical skills and clear steps people can use between meetings. Her style is collaborative and respectful.
She treats people as the experts on their own lives and acts as a guide while they work toward goals. Many clients come for help with coping skills, codependency patterns, career stress, or finding purpose in midlife. She holds a Specialist in Education degree from Georgia State University and maintains licensure as an FL LMHC and a GA LPC.
Cassandra offers sessions in English and accepts international clients, providing care through several online formats.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Cassandra uses client-centered therapy to focus on each person's experience and goals. This approach prioritizes listening and supporting the client’s own problem-solving, which can help with self-esteem, life purpose, and coping with change.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and practical skill-building between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Cassandra collaborates with clients to match methods to their needs and preferences, adjusting techniques as progress is made. The aim is a plan that feels useful and realistic for daily life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are an option when internet bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text messaging can be used for shorter check-ins or when someone needs flexible, low-key communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family, and travel while keeping continuity of care.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Georgia, Florida
- Languages
- English