About Candice
Candice Halley is a licensed clinical mental health counselor with 16 years of experience based in North Carolina. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD, and helps them find practical ways to manage daily life and emotions. Her style is warm and direct, aiming to make therapy feel useful from the first session.
Clients can expect hands-on strategies and focused conversation rather than long lectures. Candice draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
Background and approach
She uses client-centered methods to keep sessions focused on each person’s priorities. Mindfulness practices and skills from dialectical behavior therapy are woven into sessions when they fit the need. Motivational interviewing is used to help people find their own reasons and energy for change.
These approaches are used together to match what each person needs in the moment. She has worked across many concerns including grief, relationship and intimacy issues, addiction, sleep and eating difficulties, parenting stress, trauma and abuse, and career or workplace strain. Candice also supports people dealing with chronic illness, caregiver stress, and major life transitions.
Practical problem solving and steady emotional support are central in her work. Sessions aim to build skills that carry into everyday life. People who want clear tools and compassionate listening often find her approach straightforward and action-oriented.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Client-centered therapy focuses on your goals and what matters to you. The therapist follows your lead, listens closely, and shapes sessions around your priorities to make sure therapy feels relevant and practical.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, teaches concrete skills to change patterns of thinking and behaving that get in the way. It can help with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and many everyday struggles by breaking problems into manageable steps.
Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, adds skill training for managing strong emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating stress. DBT skills can be useful for people who need clear strategies for emotional regulation and communication.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose which approaches to try based on symptoms, goals, and personal preferences. This process is flexible and revisited as needs change.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual connection helps, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short check-ins, real-time coaching, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around busy schedules and changing life demands.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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