Kim Cassano
Experienced LCSW blending practical skills and empathy
LCSW New Jersey
- Experience
- 30 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Addictions, Self esteem
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Kim
Kim Cassano is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 30 years of experience helping people manage stress, mood concerns, addiction, and relationship challenges. She emphasizes respectful, person-centered care and draws on practical tools to help clients build coping skills, improve communication, and address life transitions.
Background and approach
Her practice includes work with adults and older adults as well as adolescents and preteens, and she brings long experience across mental health and substance use concerns. Cassano pairs a client-centered stance with evidence-informed techniques to tailor treatment to each person’s needs.
She commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and develop concrete strategies for change, while also attending to personal values and individual strengths.
Serving clients in New Jersey, she offers a broad clinical focus that spans anxiety and depression, grief, trauma, relationship and intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, ADHD, caregiver stress, and substance-related concerns. Her work aims to support practical problem solving and longer term resilience.
Approaches and Online Options for Practical Change
Kim Cassano integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Client-Centered Therapy in her online work. CBT involves identifying patterns of thinking and behavior that contribute to distress and learning concrete strategies to change them, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, addiction-related challenges, sleep and eating issues, and coping with life changes. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathetic listening and collaboration, helping people explore their values, strengths, and choices while feeling heard and respected.Choosing the right approach is treated as a collaborative process. She works with each person to assess goals, symptoms, and preferences and then adjusts methods as therapy unfolds so the work remains relevant and practical to the client's life.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility and make care more accessible across busy schedules. These formats allow for consistent support while accommodating different communication styles and logistical needs, helping clients integrate therapeutic work into everyday life.
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Experience
30+ years
Licensed
New Jersey
Languages
English