Cassie Palm
I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist supporting children, adolescents, young adults, and their families through challenges of emotion dysregulation, depression, anxiety, and interpersonal conflicts. I assist clients in living values driven lives through skill building, processing, and support.
I often connect with clients through humor and joy that can help lessen the heaviness of growing up and entering adulthood.
I use a DBT and CBT framework to assist clients in implementing practical skills to work towards their goals, improve their mood, and strengthen relationships. I provide a warm, empathetic, and compassionate space that meets you right where you are. I completed my Bachelor of Arts from Seattle University, majoring in Teaching and Psychology, and went on to complete my Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy from the University of Southern California. Fight on!
First session
In our first session I will focus on getting to know you, identifying key therapy goals, and starting to build a strong foundation for our work together. I will ask some questions to better understand how I can best support you, and move towards a steady, consistent therapeutic relationship.
Strengths
I use a balance of both a listening ear and a cheerleader. I often connect with clients through humor and joy that can help lessen the heaviness of growing up and entering adulthood. I bring significant experience working with teens and their families enduring crisis, relational challenges, and general growing pains. I'm passionate about integrating family support in therapy, and feel grateful to walk alongside families as they grow together.
Ideal clients
I'm most qualified to support children, teens, young adults, and families who are experiencing relational conflict, emotion dysregulation, depression, and anxiety. I feel confident in guiding adolescents through challenges with school, friends, parents, and identity. I take a nonjudgmental approach, and can understand what it's like to experience growing pains. I can support teenagers, but also their parents in navigating the transition from childhood to adolescence. I also love to work with young adults who are transitioning out of adolescence and moving into new identities and roles.
Origin story
My path to becoming a therapist was shaped by my love for people, and the magic that can come from truly listening. I am truly a people person, and love nothing more than building connections and relationships. While in college I realized the true power in listening during my work as a crisis line volunteer, supporting people through their hardest moments. Prior to practicing independently, I spent the last five years working in teen residential treatment, supporting adolescents and their families work through crisis, and feel honored to have stood alongside families during some of their toughest moments.
Treatment methods
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I use CBT to help clients build connections between their thoughts, feelings, and actions. I work to help clients understand limiting beliefs, assumptions, and challenge negative self talk.
Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
I use DBT to help client build practical skills when experiencing intense emotions and conflict with friends, families, and partners.
Person-centered (Rogerian)
I take care to meet you exactly where you are. I help clients find and recognize their strengths, and identify their struggles without judgments.
Location
Virtual sessions
Identifies as
White
Woman
Top specialties
ADHD
Child or Adolescent
Emotional Regulation
Other specialties
Anger Management
Anxiety
Depression
Family Therapy
Mood Disorders
Parenting
School Issues
Self Esteem
Serves
Adults (18 to 64)
Children (6 to 12)
Family Conflict
Family Therapy
Individual Therapy
Teenagers (13 to 17)
Doesn't specialize in
Couples Counseling
Couples Counseling
Dissociative Disorders
Domestic Violence
Eating Disorders
Fertility & Reproduction Issues
Gambling Addiction
Medication Management
Military/Veterans
Perinatal Mental Health
Postpartum
Sex Addiction
Sex Therapy
Licensed in
CaliforniaLicense 158724