Cassia Garcia-Knab, LPC

Cassia Garcia-Knab is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 16 years of experience who helps people facing life changes, grief, relationship pain, and struggles with mood or focus. She speaks English and Portuguese and works with people across Texas. Her practice is practical and direct, aimed at making therapy feel doable for busy lives.

Cassia draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and build better habits. She also uses Client-Centered Therapy to listen closely and Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools when intense emotions need steadying. Sessions focus on skills you can use between meetings, not just talk in the room.

Her background includes long-term clinical work supporting people with grief, parenting stress, compassion fatigue, and changes related to health or career. She also assists those navigating intimacy concerns, ADHD, bipolar mood challenges, and identity questions within the LGBT community. Practical problem solving and coping strategies are central to her work.

Cassia aims to make early sessions straightforward: identify what matters most, try a few techniques, and adjust after checking what helps. She keeps language plain and avoids jargon so people can apply ideas right away. Sessions can include short behavioral experiments, emotion regulation skills, and communication practice.

Clients often move from feeling stuck to having clear next steps. Cassia supports people through separation, blended family stress, chronic illness strain, and work-related burnout. Her style is warm, focused, and goal-oriented to help people get relief and make changes that last.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on careful listening and helping people feel heard. In online sessions that means the therapist reflects concerns, asks open questions, and follows the client's lead to set goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches concrete exercises to change them. Online CBT sessions often include homework, thought records, and behavior experiments to try between meetings. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers skills for regulating intense emotions and improving relationships. These skills can be taught and practiced in video or text formats to help manage strong stress or conflict.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Cassia will collaborate with each person to decide which combination of techniques fits their needs, goals, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts methods if something isn't helping, so therapy stays practical and centered on what the person wants to change.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer sessions and practicing communication skills. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can support quick coaching, reminders, or ongoing skill practice between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible for people juggling work, family, and health demands.