About Kim
Kim Cassano is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 30 years in mental health and substance use care. She speaks plainly and offers steady support for people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, ADHD, depression, and life transitions. Her approach centers on listening first and helping clients find practical next steps they can use between sessions.
Kim draws on client-centered therapy to build a warm, respectful space. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on real problems - sleep, eating, coping with grief, relationship challenges, work stress, or parenting strain. Her background includes long-term work across adult and older adult populations, and experience with teens and preteens. That variety informs a flexible style that adapts to each person’s needs and pace.
Kim treats each person with the same respect she would expect from her own therapist. Practically, she helps people set manageable goals, try experiments between visits, and track what changes. She also addresses issues like compassion fatigue, chronic illness, intimacy concerns, and substance use in a straightforward way.
Kim practices in New Jersey and conducts sessions in English. She offers multiple online session formats so people can pick what fits their day and energy level.
How Kim’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on building trust through listening and empathy. The therapist follows the person’s lead, helping them name what matters most and set personal goals; this approach is useful for coping with grief, relationship strain, and stress.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, involves spotting patterns in thoughts and behaviors and trying practical experiments to shift them. It helps with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, ADHD-related challenges, and habits tied to substance use or eating concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kim collaborates with each person to decide which methods to try, and she adapts the plan as goals and needs change. The process is a joint effort to identify helpful steps and measure progress.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people show nonverbal cues and have a fuller conversation. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers audio only. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins, quick coaching, or a written record of strategies and homework. These options give flexibility while keeping the same therapeutic focus on practical change and supportive listening.
Questions people ask
What concerns does Kim commonly address?
What is her therapeutic style like?
How long has she practiced?
Where is she based and what credentials does she hold?
Which languages are supported?
What session formats are available?
How is cost handled?
How do I begin working together?
What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.