About Candice
Candice Halley is a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) based in North Carolina with 16 years of experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, and career- or relationship-related worries. Her style is warm and practical, aimed at real changes that fit day-to-day life.
Candice uses simple techniques so people can feel steadier fast. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and on Dialectical Behavior Therapy for emotion regulation skills.
How Candice works
Mindfulness practices and client-centered listening are part of sessions too. Sessions focus on clear goals. She helps people build better sleep and eating habits, address parenting and caregiving strain, and tackle issues like burnout or compassion fatigue.
Intimacy concerns, ADHD, bipolar mood management, and trauma are also within her focus areas. Her work often includes plain coaching tools for career changes, communication problems, commitment worries, and navigating separation or divorce. For people dealing with chronic illness, cancer, or caregiver stress, she blends practical coping strategies with emotional support.
Candice frames therapy as a collaborative process. She assesses what someone needs, then uses approaches such as motivational interviewing to increase readiness for change. People leave sessions with short, doable steps to practice between meetings.
Candice lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Candice works with
The areas below are the ones Candice selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on respectful listening and meeting people where they are. It helps people feel heard and encourages them to find their own solutions to problems like low self-esteem or relationship doubts.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It breaks down patterns that keep anxiety or depression going and teaches simple skills to change those patterns.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) adds practical tools for handling intense emotions. It teaches grounding, distress tolerance, and relationship skills useful for mood swings, anger, or trauma-related distress.
Candice treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk through goals, preferences, and daily routines to pick methods that fit. Adjustments are made as therapy progresses so techniques match changing needs and life demands.
Online formats offer flexible ways to work. Video calls let people use visual cues and more in-depth conversation. Phone sessions can fit a busy schedule or avoid needing to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, ongoing reminders, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or health-related routines.
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