About
Cassandra Millen MSW, RSW
Registered Social Worker, Psychotherapist Certified EFFT Therapist
As a person and family centered-therapist and a Registered Social Worker and Psychotherapist in Napanee, Ontario, I understand that your circumstances are uniquely yours, and your therapy should reflect this. I am a Certified Emotion Focused Family Therapist, a Certified Trauma Therapist and I specialize in working with Eating Disorders and Living with Chronic Illness as well.
With nearly 15 years experience in the mental health field, I have worked in a variety of environments including hospital, community and private practice and across a variety of sectors including child welfare, youth justice, community health and medicine. I am passionate about providing supervision services to Social Workers and Registered Psychotherapists across Ontario. I own First Light Therapy and Co-Own Napanee Psychotherapy (www.napaneepsychotherapy.com), a counselling and psychotherapy collective in Napanee, Ontario that is dedicated to providing accessible, holistic and innovative mental health care in-person and virtually across Ontario.
I am a Psychotherapist and Registered Social Worker in Napanee, governed by the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers. I have worked in both community and hospital-based settings and I specialize in working with eating disorders, trauma, family and relationship issues and emotion processing. I also work with individuals around anxiety, addictions, grief, self harm and general coping.
On a personal note, a few of my favourite things include spending time with my family, my morning coffee, playing hockey in the winter and golfing in the summer, reading and the cooler weather. If I wasn’t a therapist, I would have loved teaching.
Although therapy is not easy, with a supportive environment, you can work through the challenges that come with this journey. I strongly believe that awareness is power and I strive to create a safe and comfortable space that will lend itself kindly to creating self-awareness while making sense and learning to transform the emotional drivers to our thoughts and behaviours.
Therapy Approaches
Individual Therapy
Whether you are looking to process trauma, manage your emotions or work toward living by your value system, we will work together to develop and strengthen skills to achieve your goals.
Family Therapy
Drawing from attachment-based and emotion-focused family therapies, family therapy aims to improve communication, build trust and resolve conflict within the family system.
Supervision and Consultation
General supervision and consultation is available to clinicians and students. Keep in mind my training background is predominantly emotion focused, attachment and family therapy focused, trauma focused approaches and I am formally training in CBT, DBT, RO-DBT as well. I specialize in working with eating disorders, trauma and family therapies.
Let's Talk
The first step in therapy is talking. Let's find a time where we can meet and talk about what's on your mind.