About Deborra
Deborra "Cassandra" Rikard is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Mississippi with 11 years of experience. She focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and life transitions. Cassandra also supports those managing ADHD and related daily challenges.
Clients can expect a calm, nonjudgmental space to talk about what feels overwhelming. She emphasizes listening first and then working together on practical steps. Conversations often center on clearer routines, coping skills, and small behavior changes that make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Cassandra draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address mood and attention concerns. Sessions move at a client’s pace and prioritize realistic tools that fit each person’s life. The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes.
She has additional experience with adoption and foster care issues, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, body image, and relationship strains like infidelity or divorce. Those areas are woven into sessions when they relate to a client’s current goals. Practical matters such as motivation, impulsivity, isolation, and coping after disasters are also common topics.
Cassandra helps people find small changes that add up to better focus, improved mood, and stronger everyday routines.
Therapeutic techniques and online care
Deborra "Cassandra" Rikard uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical skills. One common approach she relies on teaches clear routines and behavior changes to improve attention and daily functioning; this can help with ADHD-related challenges and motivation by breaking tasks into manageable steps. Another technique centers on coping skills for anxiety and mood regulation, teaching short exercises and strategies to reduce overwhelm and build steadier emotional responses.Choosing the right method is a collaborative process. Cassandra works with each person to identify what fits their goals, lifestyle, and preferences. Together they try tools, notice what helps, and adjust the plan over time so the work feels relevant and doable.
Online therapy with Cassandra offers several practical advantages. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a fuller interaction is helpful. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit easily into a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, fast problem-solving, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep up with therapy around school, work, and family responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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