You deserve a therapy experience free from judgment and full of genuine understanding. Too many people have felt invalidated or criticized—by others and even by themselves—which often keeps them from reaching out for the support they need.
My approach is different. Here, you'll find acceptance, empathy, and a truly safe environment where you can be yourself without fear of judgment. Because healing happens best when you feel heard, valued, and completely understood.
Forget the traditional therapy model where you're squeezed into a weekly slot and left to figure things out on your own between sessions. My approach is built around what actually works.
With a deliberately smaller caseload, I can offer more frequent sessions and be genuinely available when challenges arise. Need to talk through using a coping skill in real time? Call me. Struggling to implement something we discussed? I'm here for phone coaching between sessions.
No receptionists, no gatekeepers—when you reach out, you're talking directly to me. Because real progress happens when support is accessible, not just scheduled.
Caasi brings nearly two decades of experience helping people navigate life's toughest challenges. Since earning her Master's in Social Work in 2009 and becoming a licensed Clinical Social Worker in 2012, she's worked with everyone from homeless teens to families in crisis—always with one goal: creating lasting change.
From Crisis to Healing
Her journey began at an adolescent homeless shelter in Las Vegas, where she developed life skills programs and secured community resources. She then spent years providing therapy to severely emotionally disturbed children and their families, helping countless families reunify while creating support systems for struggling parents.
Mastering the Tools That Work
In 2012, Caasi dove deep into Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), eventually designing and facilitating an intensive outpatient program that served hundreds of adults battling depression, anxiety, and self-harm. She became a mentor to other clinicians and helped create specialized programs for adolescents.
Breaking Free from Limitations
Private practice since 2014 gave Caasi the freedom to create truly customized care without insurance restrictions—leading to faster, more meaningful results for her clients.
Going Deeper
Recognizing that some clients needed more than traditional DBT, Caasi discovered Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy. Currently pursuing certification through the IFS Institute, she believes that healing our internal "parts" is key to lasting transformation.
Expanding Possibilities
After studying Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy at the Polaris Institute in San Francisco, Caasi now offers KAP as a powerful tool for exploring subconscious barriers and inner dynamics in a safe, controlled environment.
The Integration
Caasi's work centers on helping you integrate these insights into real life—shedding the burdens and fears that hold you back, opening the door to a more joyful, liberated existence full of possibilities.
Advanced Trauma & Integration Work
Innovative Treatment Modalities
Relationship & Family Systems
Specialized Populations
Professional Development
Living with BPD can feel like being caught in an emotional hurricane—where moods shift rapidly, your sense of self feels unstable, and relationships feel intensely important yet terrifyingly fragile. One moment you feel connected and hopeful, the next you're overwhelmed by emptiness or rage.
You're Not Broken
BPD is a real condition marked
Living with BPD can feel like being caught in an emotional hurricane—where moods shift rapidly, your sense of self feels unstable, and relationships feel intensely important yet terrifyingly fragile. One moment you feel connected and hopeful, the next you're overwhelmed by emptiness or rage.
You're Not Broken
BPD is a real condition marked by ongoing patterns of emotional intensity, shifting self-image, and relationship challenges. But here's what's important: it's treatable, and you can learn to find stability within the storm.
My Specialization
I've been specializing in BPD treatment for over a decade, using Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)—the gold standard treatment specifically designed for BPD. This isn't just another therapy approach I offer; it's my expertise and passion.
Why DBT Works
DBT was created specifically for people with BPD by someone who understood the struggle from the inside. It teaches the exact skills you need: how to tolerate distress without making it worse, regulate intense emotions, navigate relationships while maintaining your sense of self, and stay present when everything feels chaotic.
Real Change is Possible
After years of helping people with BPD, I've seen remarkable transformations. The emotional rollercoaster can become manageable. Relationships can become stable and fulfilling. That sense of inner emptiness can be replaced with genuine self-acceptance and peace.
You Don't Have to Navigate This Alone
BPD recovery takes courage, but you don't have to do it alone. With the right support and proven tools, you can build the life you want—one where your emotions inform you rather than control you.
Integrating IFS and CPT: A Comprehensive Approach to Trauma Healing
Trauma affects both your beliefs about yourself and the world, and the protective parts of your system that formed to keep you safe. That's why I often combine Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) to address trauma from multiple angles.
How
Integrating IFS and CPT: A Comprehensive Approach to Trauma Healing
Trauma affects both your beliefs about yourself and the world, and the protective parts of your system that formed to keep you safe. That's why I often combine Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) to address trauma from multiple angles.
How They Work Together
CPT helps you identify and challenge the unhelpful beliefs trauma created—thoughts like "I'm not safe," "It's my fault," or "I can't trust anyone." Meanwhile, IFS helps you understand which parts of you are carrying these beliefs and why they developed these protective strategies.
The IFS Foundation
We start by building a relationship with your Self—that calm, compassionate core that can hold space for all your parts. From this grounded place, we can gently approach the parts that are carrying trauma burdens and the parts that have been working overtime to protect you.
Examining the Beliefs
Using CPT techniques, we examine the thoughts and beliefs your protective parts developed. Instead of fighting these beliefs, we get curious about them. What was this part trying to protect you from? How did this belief serve you then? Is it still serving you now?
Healing the Whole System
As we challenge unhelpful beliefs through CPT, we simultaneously help your protective parts feel safe enough to relax their vigilant roles. When parts no longer need to carry trauma burdens or maintain hypervigilance, they can return to their natural gifts.
Integration and Freedom
The goal isn't just to change your thoughts or heal your parts—it's to create an integrated system where your Self can lead with clarity and compassion, free from the grip of trauma's protective patterns.
Depression and Anxiety: Going Beyond Quick Fixes
Many therapy approaches focus on symptom management—teaching you to cope with depression and anxiety rather than understanding where they come from. While coping skills are important, wouldn't you rather address the root cause?
The Problem with Surface-Level Solutions
Traditional solution-foc
Depression and Anxiety: Going Beyond Quick Fixes
Many therapy approaches focus on symptom management—teaching you to cope with depression and anxiety rather than understanding where they come from. While coping skills are important, wouldn't you rather address the root cause?
The Problem with Surface-Level Solutions
Traditional solution-focused therapy often treats depression and anxiety as problems to solve quickly. But these aren't just bad moods or thinking errors—they're often protective responses from parts of you that are still carrying old burdens, fears, or wounds.
Going Deeper
Using DBT, IFS, and mindfulness, we explore what's really driving your depression and anxiety. Which parts of you are exhausted from trying to keep you safe? What burdens are they carrying that aren't theirs to hold? What do they need to finally feel safe enough to let go?
Understanding Before Changing
Before we rush to "fix" anything, we get curious. Maybe your anxious part is trying to prevent future hurt. Maybe your depressed part is protecting you from disappointment. Once we understand their protective intentions, we can help them find new, healthier ways to support you.
Skills That Actually Work
As we heal these deeper patterns, you'll also learn practical DBT skills to manage intense emotions, mindfulness techniques to stay present, and cognitive tools to interrupt unhelpful thought spirals. But now these skills work better because you're not fighting against your own protective system.
Lasting Change
Instead of just managing symptoms, you'll experience genuine relief as the parts carrying depression and anxiety are finally heard, understood, and freed from their protective roles. The result? Sustainable healing that comes from within.
When a child is struggling, the whole family feels it. That's why my approach treats the entire family system, not just the individual child. After all, children don't exist in isolation—they're part of a dynamic, interconnected family where everyone influences everyone else.
Why Family Involvement Matters
Children often express what the wh
When a child is struggling, the whole family feels it. That's why my approach treats the entire family system, not just the individual child. After all, children don't exist in isolation—they're part of a dynamic, interconnected family where everyone influences everyone else.
Why Family Involvement Matters
Children often express what the whole family is experiencing. Their behavior, anxiety, or emotional struggles may be their way of communicating about stress, changes, or dynamics within the family system. When we only focus on the child, we miss crucial pieces of the puzzle.
Everyone Plays a Part
This isn't about blame—it's about understanding. Each family member contributes to both the challenges and the solutions. Parents aren't causing their child's problems, but they are perfectly positioned to be part of the healing process.
When Previous Therapy Didn't Work
If your child has been to therapy before without seeing lasting change, it may be because the focus was too narrow. Individual child therapy can be helpful, but real transformation often happens when the whole family learns new ways of connecting, communicating, and supporting each other.
The Family as the Solution
Your family already has incredible strengths and resources. My job is to help you discover and build on these, creating new patterns that support everyone's wellbeing. When parents are actively involved, children typically progress much faster and maintain their gains longer.
Working Together
This collaborative approach means you're not just dropping your child off for therapy—you're learning, growing, and healing together as a family unit.
You run toward danger when everyone else runs away. You see things most people never will. You carry the weight of life-and-death decisions, traumatic scenes, and the constant pressure to be strong for everyone else. But who's there for you when the alarm stops ringing?
Understanding the Firefighter Experience
I recognize the unique challen
You run toward danger when everyone else runs away. You see things most people never will. You carry the weight of life-and-death decisions, traumatic scenes, and the constant pressure to be strong for everyone else. But who's there for you when the alarm stops ringing?
Understanding the Firefighter Experience
I recognize the unique challenges you face—the hypervigilance that keeps you alive on calls but makes it hard to relax at home, the emotional armor that protects you from trauma but can create distance in relationships, and the brotherhood culture that sometimes makes asking for help feel like weakness.
It's Not Weakness, It's Maintenance
You wouldn't ignore maintenance on your equipment because lives depend on it. Your mental health deserves the same attention. Taking care of your psychological wellbeing isn't just about you—it's about staying sharp for your crew, present for your family, and resilient for the long haul.
Specialized Approaches That Work
Using evidence-based treatments like CPT for trauma, DBT for emotional regulation, and IFS for understanding your different "parts" (the firefighter, the partner, the parent), we address the whole person, not just the uniform.
What We Address
A Safe Space to Decompress
In therapy, you can take off the armor. No judgment, no weakness—just a safe space to process what you've seen and experienced, reconnect with who you are beyond the badge, and develop tools to thrive both on and off duty.
You've Dedicated Your Life to Protecting Others—Let Me Help Protect You