About Candace
Candace Coston is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people cope with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and relationship struggles. She supports those facing parenting challenges, addiction concerns, ADHD, and the strain of life changes. Candace offers straightforward listening and practical steps to help people feel steadier day to day.
Candace trained in social work at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington and holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from Campbell University.
Background and approach
She brings four years as an LCSW in North Carolina to her clinical work. Her background includes work with people facing trauma, mood disorders, and difficult transitions. Her approach begins by finding what matters to each person.
She asks about values, goals, and the things that bring joy. Sessions focus on small, concrete steps that link those values to daily choices. Candace uses several evidence-informed approaches to guide sessions.
She draws on acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive behavioral strategies, mindfulness practices, and client-centered conversation to help people identify patterns and try new responses. She also applies elements of dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation and practical coping skills. In therapy she aims to make things manageable.
Conversations are clear and paced to match each person’s needs. The goal is to create doable plans for change and to build skills people can use between sessions.
How her approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice what matters to them and take small actions toward those values even when feelings are difficult. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical techniques to reduce unhelpful patterns. It often helps with anxiety, low mood, and sleep problems. Client-centered work focuses on listening, reflection, and building a trusting conversation so people can find their own solutions and clarify goals.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy process. Candace works together with each person to see which tools fit their goals and preferences. That collaborative process may mix approaches over time as needs change.
Online therapy lets people use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit therapy into their lives. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when someone prefers writing. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and practical when schedules or location change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, Oregon
- Languages
- English