About Kandi
Kandi Shaw is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 16 years of experience working in Texas. She offers calm, straightforward support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and the fallout from trauma and abuse. Her tone is warm and encouraging, and she acknowledges that starting therapy takes courage.
Kandi focuses on building an open space where clients can say what they feel without judgment. She helps people talk through strong emotions like anger and guilt and works with those coping with major life changes.
Background and approach
Parents and caregivers can find help with caregiver stress and parenting challenges. Her practice also attends to concerns about self-esteem, body image, and finding life purpose. She supports people navigating workplace pressure, seasonal mood shifts, and issues tied to culture or discrimination.
Young adults and those facing midlife shifts are among the common life phases she addresses. Kandi uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts her approach to each person. Sessions aim to identify practical steps and clearer ways to handle daily stressors.
She encourages small, manageable changes that build toward better coping. Therapy is offered in English and is available to international clients. Sessions can be scheduled in formats that fit different needs, and Kandi guides people through the first steps so they can get started with less worry.
Approaches and what online therapy offers
Evidence-based techniques used in Kandi's practice focus on clear, practical steps people can try between sessions. One approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing different ways of responding to stress and anxiety, which can reduce worry and improve daily functioning. Another approach centers on emotional processing after trauma and abuse, helping people describe and make sense of painful memories so those memories feel less overwhelming.Choosing the right approach happens together. Kandi will listen to your concerns, discuss options, and try approaches that match your goals and preferences. She adjusts methods as needed so the work stays relevant and manageable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make therapy more flexible. Video works well for focused conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging can be used for brief check-ins, ongoing encouragement, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and maintain regular contact with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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