About Candance
Candance Hammonds is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) based in North Carolina. She brings 20 years of experience in mental health and 17 years as a licensed counselor to sessions. She focuses on practical support for common and painful concerns like anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, parenting strain, relationship and intimacy issues, and ADHD.
Her approach centers on what the person wants to change. Sessions focus on clear goals and steps toward those goals.
How Candance works
She aims to build a reliable therapeutic relationship and to create a space where people can talk through painful events and everyday stressors. Candance uses methods that help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also draws on mindfulness to help clients manage intense feelings and Trauma-Focused Therapy when past harm affects current life.
Motivational interviewing is part of her work when someone needs help making lasting changes. Her experience includes supporting people dealing with adoption and foster care challenges, caregiver stress, codependency, infidelity, fertility concerns, narcissistic relationships, and post-traumatic stress. She also helps with bipolar disorder, anger, self-esteem, and coping with life changes.
Sessions are offered in English and are designed to fit into busy lives. Candance aims to make therapy a practical part of recovery and growth, with focused sessions that move toward the outcomes clients want.
Candance lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Candance works with
The areas below are the ones Candance selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How her approaches translate to online work
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and tailoring sessions to each person's needs. In practice this means the therapist helps set goals together and shapes sessions around what matters most to the client, whether stress reduction, parenting challenges, or relationship concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replacing them with more useful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related struggles, and mood management by teaching concrete skills and homework tasks.
Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on processing past harm and reducing its impact on daily life. This approach can help people manage symptoms from abuse, neglect, or post-traumatic stress by creating steadier coping strategies and pacing work to the client's readiness.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. Treatment can shift over time as priorities and circumstances change.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth conversations and seeing nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging make it possible to touch base between sessions or to fit support into a busy schedule. These options help people access consistent care from licensed professionals without rearranging large parts of their day.
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