- Blended family issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting support
About Cassandra
Cassandra Golden Kruse is an Ohio LISW with 30 years of clinical experience. She works with adults facing relationship strain, family concerns, trauma, depression, anxiety, parenting challenges, and blended family issues. Her pace is straightforward and practical, aimed at helping people untangle what feels stuck and find workable next steps.
She focuses on concrete goals rather than theory-heavy talk. Sessions emphasize identifying strengths, clarifying priorities, and spotting repeating patterns that cause pain. Cassandra helps people recognize unhelpful beliefs and builds skills to handle stress, anger, cravings, or the push-pull of co-parenting and stepfamily life.
Her approach draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques and a flexible style that adapts to each person’s needs. She listens for patterns tied to attachment, abandonment, or past trauma and then practices new ways of responding. Treatment can include coping strategies for mood, attention, or grief related to illness, aging, caregiving, or adoption and foster care histories.
Cassandra also works with challenges such as addiction, eating concerns, chronic pain or illness, communication problems, and codependency. She aims to break down problems into manageable steps and to teach skills someone can use between sessions. Practical tools and repeated practice are common parts of her work.
Her background includes three decades of helping adults navigate life transitions and complex stressors. People come to her when they need steady, experienced support to make real changes in daily life and family routines.
Approaches for practical change and blended household challenges
Two evidence-informed approaches commonly used to address relationship strain and trauma are cognitive-behavioral methods and skills-based therapy. Cognitive-behavioral methods focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against evidence, which can reduce anxiety, depression, and repetitive conflict patterns. Skills-based therapy teaches concrete tools for emotion regulation, communication, and behavior change that are useful when parenting, managing anger, or navigating stepfamily roles.Another useful approach addresses attachment and abandonment patterns by helping people notice how early relationship experiences influence responses now. That work looks at recurring relational reactions and practices new ways of relating that reduce shame and reactivity in adult relationships and blended household situations. Cassandra works with clients to decide which approaches fit their goals and life circumstances rather than using a single method for everyone.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will review needs, preferences, and short-term goals and will adjust methods as progress and learning occur. That means practical strategies and homework are tailored over time so clients can test what helps in real life.
The original biography did not specify session formats, so confirm current online options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy routine, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time so work on family routines and parenting skills can happen between meetings.
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Experience
30+ years
Listed in
Ohio
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She helps adults with relationship problems, family and blended household stress, trauma and abuse, depression, anxiety, and related issues like anger, addictions, and parenting strain.
What is her therapeutic style?
Her work uses practical, evidence-informed techniques focused on skills, pattern recognition, and clear goals rather than long reflective talk.
How much experience does she have?
She has 30 years of clinical experience working with adults through a wide range of life challenges and transitions.
What are her credentials and location?
She is an Ohio LISW and practices in Ohio.
Does she offer sessions in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients.
What session formats are available?
The original biography did not list specific session formats; please confirm current session options before booking.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Use the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is for adults and is not emergency care, mediation or legal advice. If you or a child are in danger, use the emergency numbers. Find someone else by name.