About Candice
Candice Yu Simon is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 14 years of experience in California. She focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, anger, low self-esteem, and depression. Candice works in English and Korean and emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in her work.
Her approach is flexible and tailored to each person. Sessions focus on clear goals and small steps that fit daily life. Candice helps people talk through overwhelming feelings and build skills to handle tense moments.
How Candice works
She supports parents who are struggling with the demands of caregiving and family life. Candice uses evidence-based techniques chosen to match each person's needs. She collaborates on a treatment plan and adjusts it as progress is made.
Expect practical tools, coaching on communication, and strategies to reduce anxiety and manage anger. Throughout the process she centers the client’s experience and priorities. She encourages steady, realistic progress rather than quick fixes.
Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping people feel more capable and confident. Candice welcomes sessions in English or Korean and offers multiple remote formats. She explains options up front and helps people pick a plan that fits their schedule.
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
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Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English, Korean |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Practical approaches and online care options
Candice uses straightforward evidence-based techniques to address common struggles. She often focuses on methods that teach coping skills for stress and anxiety, such as learning ways to notice and change unhelpful thought patterns and practicing breathing and grounding strategies to reduce acute worry. These techniques help with everyday anxiety and rumination.She also works with behavioral and problem-solving tools for anger, low motivation, and depression. This includes breaking tasks into manageable steps, building routines that support mood, and rehearsing different responses to triggering situations. These approaches are practical and aimed at small, steady improvements.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video works well for in-depth conversations and skill practice, phone is a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and chat or text can support brief updates or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between meetings.
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