ifs therapist and depth work specialist for adults
Meet Cassie Weeden
thank you for being here
This page is where I get to introduce myself to you, not just my credentials, not just my clinical framework, but the person behind the work.
I think that matters. Especially if you are considering trusting someone with the parts of yourself that feel the most vulnerable.
hi, I am Cassie Weeden
MA, LMHC, LPCCI graduated with a Special Education degree because it was the practical choice. I didn't want to be a teacher. That was the first time I chose what made sense over what I actually wanted, and I didn't fully understand what I had done until years later.
After graduation I moved to New York and got a government job on the 28th floor of a Manhattan office building, kept making the next sensible decision.
I had a life that looked good on paper.
None of it felt like me.
That feeling is what I now call languishing in adulthood. I know it the way I know it because I lived it, not because I read about it.COVID gave me the first real pause. I started analysis at the Karen Horney Clinic in New York. I made art for the first time in years. I started mapping out what I actually wanted. Not the next practical step, but what felt true. My partner and I moved to Seattle. We planted a farm, made wine, lived on the road for a while. We ended up in a cabin in the redwoods in Sonoma County, which is where I am now.
In Seattle I started my private practice. Client after client told me the same story. The tech job that paid well and cost something they could not name. The relationship that looked right and felt thin. The sense of having followed every guidepost and ended up somewhere that did not feel like them. I created a group called Languishing in Adulthood. The name fit. People found it immediately. That group became the foundation of how I work today.
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California LPCC #17397
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Washington LMHC #LH61269164
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New York LMHC #012037
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#415535 BACP Accredited Member
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MBACP #01032952
How I work:
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Internal Family Systems
IFS gave me a framework that matched how I already thought about people. You are made up of many parts, each with its own job, its own history, its own reason for doing what it does. The overachiever. The perfectionist. The part that checks out. None of them are problems to fix. They are trying to protect you. When we get genuinely curious about them, things start to shift.
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Analytical Depth Work
This is the slower, underneath work. The patterns, the stories you inherited, the forces that shaped what adulthood was supposed to look like for you. IFS and depth psychotherapy work together in a way that most therapy does not reach. One builds the relationship with your parts. The other follows the thread of where those parts came from.
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Creative Work
Between sessions I send IFS journaling prompts and creative exercises. Writing, drawing, collaging, imagery work. Whatever fits you. The clients who find me have almost always lost touch with a creative part of themselves somewhere along the way. This is one of the ways we find it again.
I love working with people who may not feel as if they are in crisis but know something has to change.
Nothing has collapsed. Nothing is obviously wrong. But something has gone quiet inside them, and they have been ignoring it long enough that it is starting to get loud.
Most of them followed the steps. They worked hard, made practical choices, built something that looks right from the outside. And now they are sitting inside that life wondering how they got so far from themselves. Some of them have a name for it. Most of them just know the feeling. They are ready to stop managing it and start understanding it.
That is the work I love most.
