- Attachment issues
- Cognitive behavioral tools
- Mindfulness practices
About Kasey
Kasey Saunders is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in North Carolina with 15 years of clinical experience. She works with adults on relationship and family concerns as well as grief, anxiety, depression, and stress. Guilt and shame are among the issues she helps people address alongside trauma, parenting challenges, and changes in life roles.
Kasey draws on practical approaches that emphasize understanding how early bonds and current patterns affect feelings and behavior. Sessions focus on clear, useful steps people can try between meetings. She explains ideas plainly and uses tools from cognitive behavioral work and mindfulness to help change unhelpful thinking and reduce reactivity.
Her background includes child development and family relations and work in foster care, school settings, and with people who have developmental differences. That experience informs how she talks about attachment, parenting, and communication problems. Kasey has also worked with domestic violence, sexual assault, and caregiving stress.
In sessions she uses client-centered principles and motivational interviewing to help people name goals and find motivation to try new patterns. She describes progress as steady practice rather than sudden fixes. Conversations tend to be straightforward and focused on what someone wants to change.
People who choose her often want help with parenting strains, blended family issues, forgiveness, or managing compassion fatigue. She helps with practical skills for managing emotions, improving communication, and navigating transitions. To begin, clients fill out a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.
How therapeutic approaches guide online work
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape expectations and reactions in current relationships. It helps when patterns from family history make people feel stuck or overly blamed. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets thoughts and behaviors that keep guilt and shame active. It uses specific experiments and thought-work to test and shift unhelpful beliefs.Choosing an approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made, treating the process as collaborative rather than one-size-fits-all.
Please confirm the available session formats before booking, since the biography does not list them. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions around work, school, or caregiving responsibilities. It may also allow shorter check-ins, reduce travel time, and let people connect from quieter surroundings when they prefer not to travel. Licensed professionals can use these options to keep therapy part of everyday life while focusing on the approaches that match the client's needs.
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Experience
15+ years
Listed in
North Carolina
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She works with relationship and family issues, trauma and abuse, parenting, grief, anxiety, depression, and related areas such as guilt and shame.
How would she approach feelings of guilt and shame?
She uses a mix of client-centered conversation, cognitive behavioral techniques, and mindfulness to help people name painful thoughts and try different responses.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Kasey has 15 years of experience working in settings such as foster care, schools, and family services, and she has a background in child development and family relations.
What credential does she hold and where does she practice?
She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) licensed in North Carolina.
Are sessions offered in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
Please confirm current session options before booking, as the biography does not list specific formats.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What is the first step to begin working together?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.