Imagine who you might become if you stopped performing your own life

Internal family systems therapy and analytical depth work for adults

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Something feels off and you can't quite explain it

You got everything you worked for, it just doesn't feel like yours

Nothing is falling apart in a way you could explain to someone. But there is this quiet, persistent sense that you designed your life around getting it right, rather than around feeling aligned with who you actually are.

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About Cassie

I didn't choose this work from the outside. I lived it first.

I graduated with a Special Education degree because it was the practical choice. I didn't want to be a teacher. I ended up in New York in a government job on the 28th floor of a Manhattan office building, making every decision that made sense. None of it felt like me.

COVID slowed me down for the first time. I was in analysis, started making art, and figured out what I actually wanted. We planted a farm, made wine, lived on the road for a while. Now we live in a cabin in the redwoods in Sonoma County.

In Seattle, client after client told me the same story. That stuck, in-between feeling. I created a group called Languishing in Adulthood. The name fit. That group is the foundation of how I work today.

In my languishing place, I often believed that changing things on the surface... moving to that new city, changing countries, changing jobs would quiet that feeling that something was off. A previous therapist told me, "wherever you go, there you are". The new city didn't change the emptiness, it just dulled it for a while. A question I often get from clients is, why do you practice in so many places, and my practice has sort of become a reflection my own languishing.

Cassie Weeden, MA, LMHC, LPCC

Licensed in California, Washington, and New York · BACP Registered Member

CA LPCC #17397 · WA LMHC #LH61269164 · NY LMHC #012037 · BACP MBACP #415535

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the work together

What working together actually looks like

Sometimes nothing catastrophic has happened. You are not in crisis. But life has started to feel less like yours, and you cannot quite figure out when that shifted or why.

This is the work I love most. Getting curious about the parts of you that made the choices that got you here.

What were they protecting?

What were they afraid of?

What did they quietly set aside to keep everyone else comfortable, to take the path that made sense on paper?

That curiosity shifts everything.

Not all at once.

But through exploration we start to understand what has conditioned you to make those life choices. The ones that still don't sit right in your soul, then, something in you takes a breath and you can finally relax.

From that place, we start to figure out what it would actually feel like to live in a way that belongs to you.

01

You understand yourself in a way you haven't before.

02

You start making choices that actually feel like you.

03

You find your own voice and start to trust what it tells you.

How we start:

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    01. Book a free consultation

    Twenty minutes. A real conversation — not a sales call, not an intake form. Just a chance to talk and decide whether this feels right.

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    02. We map your story together

    The first few sessions are about understanding where you are, how you got here, and what you are hoping to find. We usually identify a few goals before we settle into the ongoing work.

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    03. Weekly sessions, with work between them

    We meet weekly. Between sessions, I send IFS journaling prompts and creative exercises — things to work with between our time together. The work does not stop at the end of the hour.

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    04. You set the pace

    This is your process. You are the driver. I am here when you are ready, and we go as deep or as slowly as you need.

Let's begin

notes from cassie

Writing about the in-between, the work, and what it means to build a life that actually feels like you

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If something on this page felt real to you, if it felt familiar

I’d love to meet you

let's sit and talk for awhile
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