About Aleksander
Aleksander Casas is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with eight years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, and life changes. He practices from Illinois and works with adults on a wide range of concerns including addiction, depression, grief, and relationship or intimacy-related issues.
Aleksander uses telehealth formats to offer regular, structured time for people to address what feels heavy in their lives. He favors approaches that focus on values, emotions, and skills.
Background and approach
He often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters and take small steps toward those goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thinking and try practical behavior experiments. Attachment-Based techniques support people who want to understand how early relationships shape current patterns.
Aleksander takes a client-centered stance in sessions, listening first and tailoring the pace to each person. Sessions include practical exercises, check-ins about progress, and strategies to manage symptoms between meetings. He aims to make conversations straightforward and goal-oriented so clients can notice change without getting overwhelmed.
Many clients come for help with sleep and eating concerns, chronic stress, ADHD-related challenges, or compassion fatigue from caregiving roles. He also supports people dealing with trauma, abuse, or complex grief who want steady guidance while they process difficult emotions.
People who choose Aleksander can expect collaborative planning, clear steps to try between sessions, and regular reviews of what is and isn’t working. He accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English.
How Aleksander’s Approaches Work Online
Aleksander uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people name their values and take small, consistent steps toward them. ACT focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck and trying practical actions that reflect what matters most.He also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and test new behaviors. CBT sessions often include simple exercises to try between meetings, like tracking thoughts or practicing a different response to stress.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Aleksander listens to each person’s goals and preferences, then adjusts methods as needed. Together they check progress and change course when something isn’t helping.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video is useful for deeper conversation and demonstrations, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can fit quick check-ins or brief coaching between sessions. These options make it possible to sustain regular work on goals from different places and times.
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What this therapist 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
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