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01About Cassandra
Dr. Cassandra April is a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) practicing in Illinois with three decades of experience. She brings steady guidance to people facing loss, trauma, anxiety, and family challenges.
Her plain, direct manner helps clients feel understood and clear about next steps. She focuses on common, painful problems parents and individuals face. That includes grief, depression, addiction, stress, anger, low self-esteem, and compassion fatigue.
She also addresses tangled family-of-origin issues like abandonment, adoption and foster care concerns, blended family challenges, and communication problems.
Background and approach
Her work blends thought-focused and insight-oriented methods. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people change unhelpful thinking and behavior. Psychodynamic ideas help uncover patterns that repeat across relationships.
Trauma-focused approaches offer ways to process harmful past events safely. In sessions she talks through concrete steps people can use between meetings. She helps set goals and break big problems into smaller tasks.
She also pays attention to how family patterns and loyalties affect daily choices and relationships. People who do best with her tend to want practical tools plus space to reflect. She works with emotional pain that follows major life changes, loss, or long-standing family conflicts.
Conversations are straightforward and focused on improving day-to-day coping and relationships.
02Credentials
- LCPC (Illinois)
- License 180002527 · expires March 2027
- NPI
- 1316299258 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Cassandra lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Methods Cassandra names
These are the methods Cassandra names on their own professional profile. Naming an approach is not evidence of training or certification in it, and this directory checks no training records. Ask directly if it matters to you.
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04Online support
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Dr. April uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and habits; this approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Psychodynamic work looks at repeated relationship patterns and family-of-origin influences to help people make different choices and feel less stuck.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether to emphasize skill-building, insight work, trauma processing, or a mix of methods.
Online sessions include video calls, phone meetings, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video is good for fuller conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Text and chat offer ongoing support between appointments and options for people who prefer writing. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work during life transitions.
05Questions people ask
Which issues does she address?
She helps people with grief, trauma and abuse, depression, anxiety, stress, addictions, relationship and family problems, and related concerns like shame or loneliness.
What is her therapy style like?
Her style blends practical skill-building and deeper reflection. Sessions include concrete tools, goal-setting, and time to understand repeating patterns.
How much experience does she have?
She has 30 years of experience working in counseling and brings that background to both day-to-day coping and longer-term work.
Where is she licensed and based?
She holds an IL LCPC and practices in Illinois.
In which languages are sessions offered?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She meets via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
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