Hi I’m Cassie Causton.  

I created Lightly to do the work that I am truly passionate about.

I believe that the solutions to our greatest struggles exist within each of us. 

I believe life is better when we are able to hold the hard stuff lightly.  

I believe that we discover our unique path to wellbeing by being curious, experimenting and testing out different strategies to find what works best for each of us. 

I deeply appreciate working alongside people to navigate the myriad of complexities that exist within each of us, society and our broken mental health system to achieve sustainable positive change.  

I’m an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker with the Australian Association of Social Workers.  I have a Bachelor of Social Work and a Master of Mental Health Practice and have worked in the mental health and disability sectors for 15 years.  

I have a holistic and integrative approach to my practice as a mental health professional and social worker.  I believe that there is incredible potential for positive change when we are able to draw on the best of various bodies of knowledge that exist, value multiple ways of knowing and recognise expertise in all its forms.  I believe it is important to think more broadly than just the biomedical model in how we understand and respond to mental health challenges. 

As a counsellor I take the best of traditional psychological evidence-based therapies and integrate these with the wisdom of lived experience and complementary approaches that resonate with the individual.  The evidence-based therapies that I have formal training in include Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Schema Therapy, Narrative Therapy and Prolonged Exposure.   

As a supervisor I draw on experience that spans government and non-government, clinical and non-clinical, and profit and not-for-profit service environments. I have worked in a range of positions from direct therapeutic and assessment roles to coordination, training and management. I have extensive knowledge and practice experience in the provision of recovery-oriented mental health services and service transformation/change management processes.