About Candace
Candace Harren is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in Minnesota. She focuses on anxiety, stress, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and compassion fatigue. She aims to create straightforward support that helps people take the next step when life feels heavy.
Candace uses a warm, down-to-earth style. Sessions are collaborative and goal-oriented. She listens first, then helps clients identify small, practical changes they can try between meetings.
Her work draws on client-centered methods that prioritize the person's own experience and goals.
Background and approach
She also uses solution-focused techniques to help people find what works now instead of only focusing on the past. Together these approaches are meant to make progress feel more doable. Over a 15-year career she has helped people navigate a wide range of challenges.
These include adoption and foster care concerns, cancer and hospice-related stress, caregiver strain, divorce and separation, substance use issues, and feelings of emptiness or isolation. She also supports people coping with personality disorder challenges, dependent personality patterns, and seasonal affective disorder. Candace values clear steps and steady support.
She works with clients to set concrete goals and to track what changes help most. The focus is on practical moves that reduce stress and increase a sense of control.
Client-centered and solution-focused care online
Candace uses client-centered therapy to put the person's own perspective at the center of sessions. This approach focuses on listening, understanding each person's experience, and helping them define what matters most. It is useful for anxiety, grief, and low self-esteem because it starts with the client's priorities.She also draws on solution-focused therapy to find practical steps that can lead to change quickly. This method helps people identify small, achievable actions and build momentum toward their goals. It is often used for stress management, coping with caregiver demands, and addressing isolated problems like social anxiety or seasonal mood changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist partners with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. This collaborative process allows adjustments over time if something isn't working.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for this kind of work. Video calls let people have a face-to-face conversation from wherever they are. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging can make it easier to share thoughts between sessions or fit support into a busy day. These options aim to make consistent care more flexible and easier to keep up with.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Personality disorders
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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