Cassondra DeLuce Jankowski , LCSW

Cassondra DeLuce Jankowski is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on supporting people through stress, anxiety, trauma, eating concerns, and self-esteem struggles. She works with individuals facing grief, parenting challenges, relationship issues, and life changes. Cassondra aims to create a calm, direct space where people can talk through tough moments and find workable steps forward.

Cassondra earned a Master of Social Work from the University of South Carolina in 2018 and holds LCSW credentials in New York and Texas. Her background includes hospital-based care with children, adolescents, and young adults, and she has experience in higher level of care and outpatient settings.

She has substantial experience addressing eating and food-related issues and has provided family-focused therapies in clinical settings. Cassondra also supports people coping with OCD, body image concerns, crisis situations, self-harm behaviors, depression, anxiety, behavioral regulation challenges, and trauma.

Her approach blends practical strategies drawn from cognitive behavioral ideas, dialectical behavioral principles, acceptance and commitment concepts, and cognitive processing methods. Sessions emphasize plain-language discussion, tangible coping skills, and steps people can try between meetings.

Cassondra aims to meet people where they are and involve them in planning treatment. She works with those navigating adoption and foster care matters, attachment and abandonment issues, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, codependency, and communication or control problems.

She is based in New York and offers sessions in English.

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Many of the techniques Cassondra uses focus on clear skills and structured conversations. Cognitive behavioral approaches help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors to reduce anxiety or depression symptoms. This method is useful for worry, low mood, and some eating and body-image concerns.

Dialectical behavioral ideas emphasize emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. These tools can help when intense feelings, anger, or behavioral regulation issues get in the way of daily life. Cognitive processing methods support people working through trauma by organizing memories and changing unhelpful beliefs that keep distress alive.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Cassondra will collaborate with each person to choose or adapt techniques based on goals, needs, and what feels most useful. She explains options plainly and adjusts methods as progress unfolds.

Online therapy provides flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let people work face-to-face when a longer session is helpful. Phone sessions can fit a shorter break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, ongoing support, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into school, work, or caregiving schedules.