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Helen Casaclang

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Helen Casaclang, LCSW

California

LCSW focusing on family and parenting concerns

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About

  • stress and anxiety
  • parenting strain
  • CBT and mindfulness

About Helen

Helen Casaclang is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in California with 27 years of professional experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, motivation, self-esteem, and depression. Helen works with adults who are dealing with relationship strain, parenting pressures, and related concerns.

Her approach is straightforward and conversational. She creates space for people to talk about what is hard and confusing without judgment. Sessions focus on practical steps and clearer thinking as well as naming emotions and patterns that get in the way.

Helen uses familiar therapeutic methods to help people manage overwhelming feelings and daily demands. She draws on client-centered work to listen and reflect, cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts, and mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity. This mix helps with anxiety, sleep problems, anger, and issues around intimacy and family stress.

Over nearly three decades she has supported people coping with grief, parenting strain, career stress, and symptoms of bipolar and ADHD. She also brings experience with adoption and foster care concerns, caregiver stress, and recovery from domestic violence.

Sessions are held in plain language and aim to produce usable coping strategies. Helen helps people set small goals, try new approaches between sessions, and track what works. For people worn down by everyday life at home, she focuses on clear, practical steps that fit into busy schedules.

How sessions work

How therapeutic approaches shape online sessions

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so people feel heard. It helps when someone needs to sort out priorities, talk through family strain, or make decisions about parenting and relationships.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and build different habits, which can reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and ease low mood.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for managing strong emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. It can be useful for anger, intense reactions, and difficulties with closeness or boundaries.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and then suggest methods to try. That decision is collaborative and may change as needs shift.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm the available session formats before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy day, allow for shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It also lets people use practices like CBT worksheets or mindfulness exercises between meetings to reinforce progress.

Areas of focus

Areas of expertise

Also works with

Relationship issuesFamily conflictsIntimacy-related issuesEating disordersSleeping disordersParenting issuesAnger managementCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderCompassion fatigueADHD

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAdoption and foster careAging and geriatric issuesAntisocial personalityAttachment issuesAvoidant personalityBody imageCaregiver issues and stressCodependencyCommitment issuesCoping with natural or human-caused disasterDependent personalityDivorce and separationDomestic violenceEating and food-related issuesEmptinessFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsGuilt and shameHIV / AIDSHoardingHospice and end-of-life counselingImmigration issuesImpulsivityInfidelityIsolation / lonelinessJealousyMidlife crisisMood disordersMulticultural concernsNarcissismObsessions, compulsions, and OCDPanic disorder and panic attacksParanoiaPersonality disordersPhobiasPostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressPregnancy and childbirthPrejudice and discriminationSelf-harmSexualitySocial anxiety and phobiaSomatizationWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Client-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)Existential TherapyMindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingPsychodynamic TherapySolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused TherapySystemic Therapy

Experience

27+ years

Listed in

California

Languages

English, Tagalog

Questions

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does she help with?

She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, self-esteem, relationship and family-related issues, and parenting strain among other concerns.

How would she describe her therapeutic style?

Her style is conversational and practical, using listening, reflection, and techniques like CBT and mindfulness to address thought patterns and coping skills.

How much experience does she have?

Helen has 27 years of professional experience providing mental health support in a variety of settings.

What are her credentials and where is she based?

She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, licensed in California and practices from that state.

Which languages are sessions offered in?

Sessions are offered in English and Tagalog.

Can people outside the United States work with her?

She does not accept international clients at this time.

How are sessions scheduled and what does cost look like?

Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

What should I do to begin working together?

Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule your first session.

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Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is in danger, use the crisis numbers.

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