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.
Emily Lansang
Registered Psychotherapist (qualifying)
Emily has a degree in Behavioural Science as well as a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Psychology and is now completing her Master's in Counselling Psychology. Emily has over five years previous experience in the field and also works with younger children! Emily embraces an integrative, person-centered and trauma-informed approach. Emily is dedicated to her role as a psychotherapist and is available to support you with anxiety, low mood, trauma processing, emotion regulation, perfectionism and more. Emily has daytime and evening appointments for children, youth and teens.
Alexandra McCarrol
Registered Psychotherapist (qualifying)
Alex is completing her internship under the supervision of Cassandra Millen. She is currently completing her Masters of Counselling Psychology program at Yorkville University and has a Bachelor of Arts with majors in psychology and sociology. Alex has previous work experience in the field of mental health in community settings including behaviour analysis and intervention. Alex offers an integrative approach to therapy intended to explore your unique needs with compassion and curiosity. Alex has a passion for supporting clients with emotion regulation, anxiety, depression, life transitions, grief, trauma and emotion processing. Alex works from a blend of modalities including cognitive-behavioural approaches, emotion focused approaches, attachment focused approaches and somatic and poly-vagal work. Alex currently offers services for individual adolescents and adults as well as couples and families and has daytime and evening availability both in person and virtually.
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.