About Cassandra
Cassandra Sams is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 23 years of experience. She practices in Georgia and draws on long experience helping people facing mood and life challenges. She has a background that includes work in adolescent treatment, a Children's Advocacy Center, independent practice, and a family counseling center.
That range gives her a practical sense of how problems show up across different life stages.
Background and approach
She often addresses anxiety, depression, grief, parenting stress, relationship strain, and identity concerns including LGBT issues. In sessions she uses clear, direct methods. She blends client-centered listening with cognitive-behavioral techniques.
Clients can expect help spotting unhelpful thinking, trying new behaviors, and setting small workable goals. Cassandra also brings creative options into the work at times. She may suggest simple art-based activities to try a different way of looking at a problem.
The focus stays on everyday steps that make tasks feel more manageable. She emphasizes respect for the person in the room and treats clients as the experts on their own lives. Her role is to witness strengths, help name patterns, and guide people toward choices that fit their values.
This approach aims to make change feel steady and realistic.
How Cassandra’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy centers on the person’s experience and priorities. In practice this means the therapist listens closely, reflects what is said, and helps the person name what matters most. It can help with grief, self-esteem, life purpose questions, and finding direction.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses practical exercises to identify unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, coping with life changes, and mood management.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and day-to-day life. That may mean combining client-centered listening, CBT skills, and occasional creative exercises to find what actually helps.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversation time. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins or when writing feels more natural. These options add flexibility so therapy can fit work, parenting, school, or travel schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- 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