About Kassandra
Kassandra Maldonado uses practical, evidence-based approaches to help people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, parenting challenges, and depression. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California with three years of clinical experience.
Background and approach
Kassandra focuses on clear steps people can try between sessions and on recognizing personal strengths that support lasting change. Her sessions center on listening and on helping people name what matters most to them.
She works to create a calm, straightforward space where concerns can be broken into manageable parts. Conversations often include simple tools for coping, communication, and problem solving.
Kassandra draws on approaches grounded in research to address trauma, mood changes, and stress. She also helps people sort through family of origin concerns, blended family issues, attachment challenges, and communication problems.
Practical strategies are paired with attention to emotional healing after loss, illness, or caregiving strain. Parents who feel overwhelmed receive focused support for parenting stress, behavior challenges, and managing guilt or shame.
For those coping with serious illness or end-of-life questions, she offers help with hospice and caregiver stress and grief processing. Kassandra encourages people to notice small shifts that build confidence over time.
She talks through next steps, helps set realistic goals, and adapts methods based on what is helpful. Sessions are offered in English and take place through multiple online formats to fit different schedules and needs.
Practical approaches for online support
Many of the therapist's methods come from evidence-based techniques that focus on skills and healing. One commonly used approach teaches coping and relaxation skills to reduce stress and anxiety. These tools can include breathing and grounding exercises, short behavioral experiments, and planning steps to manage daily demands.Another approach focuses on processing trauma and strong emotions in small, manageable steps. This method helps people tell their story at a pace that feels doable, learn how memories or triggers affect daily life, and practice new ways to respond to difficult feelings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with clients about goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. That collaboration makes it easier to pick tools that feel realistic for each person's life.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a shorter check-in with less bandwidth, live chat works well for real-time typed conversation, and messaging supports ongoing brief updates or reflections between scheduled meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English