About Cassandra

While I am a therapist and healer by profession, I am first a human on their own vested journey of healing, self-discovery, and growth. I live in Northern California, where I run a small in-person practice alongside my primarily online practice.

I grew up in Idaho where my earliest memories are of rock hunting along the rivers, building forts in fields, and exploring the natural world in general for meaning and connection. As a young girl and adolescent I was always keenly aware that there were many things left unsaid, hidden, and not fully felt that resulted in myself and my loved ones isolation, suffering, and self-rejection. These were some of the initial conditions that lead me towards the path of therapy.

I believe my own commitment to healing and growth is a necessity in supporting others through their own challenges; I can only take my clients as far as I have been willing to go myself. Being able to witness and support the depths of the human experience is a sacred gift I hold with humility and respect.

When I am not in my role as a therapist, I can usually be found looking to discover or create beauty, with my nose in a book, witnessing with awe the immense diversity of the natural world, or awaiting random acts of silliness and joy.

My therapeutic approach

 I would describe my approach to helping people heal as integrative, experiential, strength-based, relational and client led.

While I have formalized training in clinical therapeutic approaches to therapy, professional and personal experience has taught me that true healing comes about by connecting people to their own inner healer and inherent resources, while also identifying the blocks to this wisdom.

I assist clients in accessing this inner healer through an array of modalities that develop and strengthen integrating the individual through body, mind, spirit, and relationship. This means that I do not prioritize cognitive talk therapy approaches as is typically associated with therapy.

Education & Specialized Training

Graduate & Undergraduate Degrees

  • Master of Social Work (MSW) - Widener University

  • Master of Education in Human Sexuality (MEd) - Widener University

  • Bachelor of Psychology (BS) - Boise State University

Sex, Sexuality & Gender

  • Certified Sex Therapist (CST) - American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) 

  • Out of Control Sexual Behavior (OCSB) Model -On-going consultations & training.

  • Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT) - Trained and previously certified - No longer maintaining certification 

Trauma Resolution Trainings

  • Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) - Somatic Experiencing International

  • Neuro-Affective Relational Model (NARM) Therapist in Training - CTTC

  • Safe & Sound Protocol - Unyte

  • Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR) - Personal Transformation Institute

  • Post Inducation Therapy (PIT) - The Meadows of Wickenburg

Additional Trainings

  • The Work That Reconnects (WTR) - School of the Great Turning (training in 2025)

  • Tremor Release Exercises (TRE) -TRE - Tension, Stress, Trauma Release

  • EEG Neurofeedback - EEGer

Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy

  • MDMA-Assisted Therapy Training - Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Sciences (MAPS)

  • Ketamine-Assisted Therapy Training - Polaris Insight Center

Licensure

Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW):

  • California #:120005

  • Idaho #: 38617

  • Oregon #: L30417

  • Utah #: 14183709-3501

Overview of Professional Experience


Private Practice Therapist - Trauma Resolution & Sex Therapy

  • Individuals (Adults & Teens)

  • Group Therapy for Men with OCSB 

  • Select Couples for Sex Therapy

Residential Therapist

  • “Sex Addiction” focused facilities for men 

(Gentle Path at the Meadows and Keystone Extended Care Unit)

  • Adolescent & Family therapeutic facilities

Transitional Therapist

  • Young Adults & families

  • Mandated populations within the legal system

Education & Public Health

  • Sex education for adolescents and families

  • Development of workshops & college course content

  • Research & leadership in harm-reduction community health

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