I am a trauma-informed therapist with many years of experience working with children, youth, and adults who are struggling with overcoming anxiety, depression, adversity/stress, trauma, grief/loss, and difficult life transitions. I use a client-centered, integrative approach to support my clients in healing, self-discovery, and growth within their identified goals. I like to begin the therapy journey by truly understanding you and your life story, helping you to identify your strengths, and fostering your natural resources. I use a collaborative approach for setting goals based on your presenting issues and discuss various treatment options to determine the best approach to reach those goals.

What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?

In a first session, I like to focus on starting to get to know you and provide you a space to get a sense of me and whether you feel I would be a good match for you and your goals. We can do this by identifying and exploring your reasons for seeking out therapy, exploring your goals and allowing you to ask any questions about the therapy process that you may have. I also like to complete a general assessment of your life story and history without getting into anything in too much depth initially.

Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.

Having a background in trauma informed care and trauma focused treatment, I have the ability to help my clients connect present challenges and struggles back to root causes in the past in order to facilitate sustainable healing and empower self-awareness and true understanding of themselves. As the old saying goes, give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

About Cassandra Tenzer