Cassandra Golden Kruse
Compassionate guidance for practical family challenges
- Credentials
- LISW
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Cassandra
Cassandra Golden Kruse greets worried parents with calm clarity and practical help. She focuses on issues like parenting, relationships, stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and addictions. She invites clients to look at what matters most and to build a plan they can use at home.
Cassandra is a licensed independent social worker, LISW, with thirty years of experience in Ohio. Her sessions start by identifying strengths and the real-life problems that get in the way.
Background and approach
She helps parents and adults notice unhelpful patterns and then practices new ways of responding. Work is concrete and paced to fit each person’s situation and timing. Cassandra emphasizes values and priorities when making change.
She guides people to name small goals and try steps that lead to better routines and relationships. This includes skill building where needed and checking what is working along the way. She values the dignity and self-determination of every person.
Cassandra prefers a flexible, holistic way of working rather than a single fixed method. Over decades she has learned to adapt her approach to each person’s history and goals. Her background includes long clinical experience across many concerns often faced by parents and adults.
She brings steady support while helping people replace roadblocks with practical tools. Cassandra aims to help clients create more satisfying daily life and relationships.
Therapeutic approaches and how they fit online
Cassandra often draws on evidence-based techniques that focus on skills, values, and behavior change. One common thread is practical skills training - teaching concrete tools for emotion regulation, communication, and parenting routines to reduce daily stress and improve relationships. This helps when life feels overwhelming and small changes could make a difference.She also emphasizes values-focused work that helps clients clarify what matters most and set realistic goals. That approach supports decision making and keeps progress tied to personal priorities. It is useful for coping with life changes and reframing what a meaningful day looks like.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Cassandra collaborates with each person to try methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She adjusts techniques over time based on what is helpful and what feels comfortable.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for this style of work. Video calls let the therapist and client connect face to face, while phone, live chat, and text options add flexibility for busy parents or people with limited time. These formats make it easier to practice skills between sessions and to fit therapy into real life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point