About Candiss
Candiss Williams is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and life changes. She aims to make therapy straightforward and useful for day-to-day problems. Her style is practical and warm, with attention to each person's values and background.
Candiss draws on eight years of professional counseling experience and more than a decade in social services before formal licensure. That history includes school counseling, domestic violence response, substance use work, and crisis intervention in juvenile and adult justice settings.
Background and approach
Those roles shaped how she supports people during intense or confusing moments. In sessions she uses approaches people can understand and apply. She brings client-centered conversation first, then adds tools from cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior therapies when helpful.
She often includes mindfulness and motivational interviewing techniques to build skills for handling stress and strong emotions. Candiss pays attention to cultural and identity factors, and she works with people who identify as LGBT or who face multicultural challenges. She also addresses relationship problems, parenting stress, abandonment or codependency issues, and difficulty with commitment or communication.
Her work is focused on helping clients find clearer thinking, better coping skills, and steadier moods. People who want direct strategies to manage anxiety, improve relationships, or get through a major life transition may find her approach practical and goal oriented.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's goals and priorities. It creates space to talk through worries about anxiety, relationships, parenting, or life transitions and helps shape the work around what matters most to the client.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors influence mood. It teaches practical exercises to reduce anxious thinking, change unhelpful habits, and try new ways of responding to stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clear communication when feelings run high.
Finding the right mix of approaches is often part of the first few sessions. The therapist will work together with the client to choose methods based on their needs, goals, and what feels comfortable. That collaborative process can adjust over time as progress or new priorities emerge.
Online formats like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation for skill practice and feedback. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers no camera. Live chat and text messaging provide shorter check-ins, quick skill reminders, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options increase flexibility for scheduling and for matching format to each person's routine and comfort.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Minnesota, Missouri
- Languages
- English
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