About Candace
Candace Tompkins is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, and depression. She writes short, direct plans with each person and focuses on practical steps that fit daily life. Her tone is compassionate and straightforward to make first steps feel manageable.
With 15 years of experience, she blends conversational support with evidence-informed techniques. Sessions are shaped around what the client needs most - whether that is steadier mood, clearer priorities, or better coping when life feels overwhelming.
Background and approach
She emphasizes respect and sensitivity in each conversation. Candace draws from several familiar therapy methods to guide sessions. She uses client-centered work to listen and build trust, cognitive-behavioral ideas to track and change unhelpful thoughts, and mindfulness skills to reduce reactivity.
Motivational interviewing is used when people need help finding momentum for change. Practical tools and short exercises often become part of homework between meetings. She adapts pacing and techniques so things feel doable, not overwhelming.
The goal is steady progress rather than instant fixes. People who are juggling caregiving, chronic illness, relationship upheaval, or major life transitions may find her approach useful. She will collaborate on goals and adjust plans as needs shift.
The aim is to help clients feel more capable, calmer, and clearer about next steps.
Approaches for anxiety and practical online care
Candace often uses client-centered work to begin sessions, which means she listens first and follows the client's lead to build trust and clarity. This approach is useful when someone needs a calm space to talk through what feels most pressing.She also brings cognitive-behavioral techniques into online sessions to identify unhelpful thought patterns and try small experiments that change day-to-day behavior. CBT-style tools can help with anxiety, low mood, and problem solving. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used when emotional regulation and coping during distress are priorities; DBT offers short, teachable skills for managing strong feelings and improving communication.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and comfort level, and tweaks the plan as progress is made. Clients and therapist discuss pacing, homework, and what matters most in therapy.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversations that benefit from visual cues, phone works well for lower bandwidth or quick check-ins, and chat or text can fit short updates or when people need asynchronous support. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and varied daily rhythms.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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