About Candace
Candace Harren is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in Minnesota. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, or compassion fatigue. Her straightforward style is aimed at making hard conversations easier to begin and keep going.
Candace draws on Client-Centered Therapy to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where people can speak honestly about what they are facing. She uses Solution-Focused Therapy to help identify small, practical steps that lead toward clearer goals.
How Candace works
Sessions are collaborative and paced to match each person's needs. With 15 years of experience, she has supported clients dealing with adoption and foster care challenges, cancer and hospice issues, caregiver stress, divorce and separation, substance use concerns, and a range of personality and mood-related difficulties. She also works with concerns such as emptiness, guilt, seasonal affective disorder, social anxiety, and isolation.
Candace aims to help people identify what matters most to them and take manageable steps toward it. Conversations cover both immediate coping strategies and longer-term life adjustments. The focus is on practical changes that carry into everyday life.
Her approach emphasizes respect, listening, and clear goal-setting. People who want a calm, direct therapist who helps them move from overwhelm to action may find her style a good fit.
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What Candace works with
The areas below are the ones Candace selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
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
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Minnesota |
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Online support options
How her approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening without judgment and helping people decide what matters to them. It is useful for people dealing with grief, depression, stress, and questions about life purpose because it centers the person's own perspective.Solution-Focused Therapy looks for small, practical steps that move a person toward clear goals. It is action-oriented and can help with anxiety, self-esteem, caregiver stress, and periods of transition by highlighting concrete changes to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or adapt methods based on individual needs, goals, and preferences. That means sessions can shift over time from listening to short-term problem solving and back as needed.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a fuller interaction is helpful. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers a voice-only check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to have shorter, more frequent check-ins or to fit therapy into a busy day. These options give flexibility so people can choose what best fits their routine and needs.
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