About Cassondra
Cassondra DeLuce Jankowski is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage anxiety, stress, mood problems, and eating-related concerns. She draws on seven years of experience and a practical, straightforward approach to make sessions feel useful. Parents reading on a phone will find clear language and short explanations about what to expect in sessions.
She earned a Master of Social Work from The University of South Carolina and completed a bachelor’s degree in Counseling Psychology with a minor in Children and Families at Johnson and Wales University.
Background and approach
Cassondra has worked in hospital settings and higher levels of care, supporting children, adolescents, and young adults through crises and longer-term concerns. Her background includes hands-on work with eating disorders, body image struggles, anxiety, depression, self-harm behaviors, and obsessive-compulsive symptoms. In sessions she mixes practical strategies and emotion-focused work.
That can mean learning coping skills, practicing ways to manage upsetting thoughts, or talking through family patterns that keep problems stuck. She also uses techniques that address trauma and help people process painful experiences. Cassondra aims to create an open, empathetic space where people feel heard and can try new ways to cope.
She works collaboratively to set small, achievable goals and checks in on progress each week. Many clients find this steady, hands-on style helpful when dealing with life changes, grief, or relationship strain. For parents, she offers clear guidance about supporting young people with behavioral regulation, eating issues, or crisis situations.
Cassondra explains steps plainly and helps families plan manageable next actions.
Practical approaches for online care
Two of the main techniques Cassondra uses are cognitive behavioral approaches and emotion-focused work. Cognitive behavioral methods help people identify unhelpful thought patterns and practice new responses to anxiety, depression, or eating-related urges. Emotion-focused work helps people name and process feelings, which can reduce reactive behaviors and improve communication within families.She combines these methods with skills-based practices borrowed from acceptance and commitment ideas and behavioral regulation strategies. Those options focus on small, doable changes - learning coping tools, building tolerance for distressing feelings, and shifting everyday routines. Choosing which mix to use is collaborative; Cassondra works with each person or parent to test what fits their goals and comfort level.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video lets people work visually through emotion and behavior, phone calls can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to maintain regular contact and try new strategies during real-life moments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Texas, South Carolina, New York
- Languages
- English
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