About Candace
Candace Tompkins is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with 15 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, or depression. Her style is warm and straightforward, aiming to make the first steps toward change feel manageable.
Candace adapts therapy to each person rather than following one fixed plan. Sessions focus on practical skills and real-life problems. She blends client-centered care with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to address unhelpful thinking and build coping skills.
How Candace works
She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy and motivational interviewing when people need help with strong emotions, impulsivity, or making lasting changes. These methods include emotion regulation tools, problem-solving steps, and ways to strengthen motivation for change. Candace works with a wide range of concerns such as compassion fatigue, addiction struggles, trauma and abuse, anger, and life transitions.
She pays attention to related issues like attachment, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness, communication challenges, and relationship separations. Her approach is collaborative: she listens, helps set clear goals, and adjusts plans as progress is made. The aim is to leave people with concrete strategies they can use between sessions and a clearer sense of direction moving forward.
Candace lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
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
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and working at the client’s pace to identify what matters most. It helps people feel heard and guides goal-setting through respectful dialogue. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful patterns; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, offers emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills that can help with strong emotions and impulsive behavior.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, preferences, and goals and then try methods that fit those priorities. Adjustments are made over time so sessions focus on what is most helpful for the individual.
Online therapy with this clinician uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls let people work in real time with visual cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to schedule, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging works well for steady, ongoing contact between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or health demands while maintaining regular progress.
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