About Cassia
Cassia Garcia-Knab greets people with a straightforward, empathetic style. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 16 years of experience and offers support in English and Portuguese. She focuses on helping individuals talk through stress, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, and grief.
Clients can expect calm, direct sessions where feelings are named and practical steps are discussed. She creates space for honest conversation without judgment and works at a pace set by the person seeking help.
Background and approach
Many people come for help with self-esteem, sleeping problems, anger, or life transitions. Cassia uses clear tools rooted in client-centered work and cognitive-behavioral methods to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. She also integrates techniques from dialectical behavior therapy when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are central concerns.
These methods are explained plainly and practiced together in session. Her background includes practice across multiple states including Texas and Connecticut, and she draws on 16 years of varied clinical work. That experience informs a flexible approach useful for issues such as ADHD, bipolar challenges, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and communication problems.
Sessions are offered through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. She supports people navigating parenting strain, career stress, abandonment or commitment worries, and those exploring identity and LGBT-related concerns.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Cassia uses client-centered therapy to focus on each person’s experience and goals, offering a supportive, listening-based foundation that helps people feel heard and begin to sort through what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns with clear exercises and homework to test new ways of coping; it can help with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and self-esteem. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers skills for managing strong emotions and tolerating distress, which can be helpful for anger, mood instability, and relationship conflict.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to choose or blend methods based on their needs, goals, and preferences rather than using a single fixed plan. This collaborative process includes trying techniques and adjusting them over time.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full sessions and visual connection, phone works well when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in, live chat can be a quick way to process thoughts in the moment, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make scheduling easier and provide flexibility for people balancing work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Connecticut, Washington
- Languages
- English, Portuguese