About Candace
Candace Delis is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Licensed Professional Counselor based in Wisconsin. She brings six years of clinical experience and a down-to-earth style to sessions. Candace aims to make therapy approachable and practical for people facing stressful life moments.
Candace creates a calm, accepting space where clients can talk through what matters most to them. Her work includes one-on-one sessions and group experience from prior crisis intervention roles.
Background and approach
She focuses on clear, achievable steps rather than labels, and she tailors conversations to each person’s needs. Her areas of focus include anxiety, depression, bipolar concerns, grief, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, and parenting-related stress. Candace also helps people navigate anger, self-esteem struggles, career shifts, and coping with major life changes.
She has experience supporting people through trauma and compassion fatigue as well. Clinically, she blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral tools and solution-focused strategies. Mindfulness techniques are used when helpful to manage stress and sleeping problems.
Sessions typically combine practical skill-building with space to process feelings. Candace describes her approach as interactive and relatable. She values respect, sensitivity, and straightforward guidance.
If someone is ready to make a change, she focuses on usable tools and steps to move forward.
Approaches for online sessions and what they look like
Many online sessions use a mix of client-centered listening and cognitive behavioral techniques. Client-centered work focuses on listening closely and shaping conversations around what the person needs. It helps when someone wants acceptance and a place to make sense of feelings. Cognitive behavioral work looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and building new daily habits.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which tools to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into busy days. Video is helpful for more in-depth work and visual connection. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be a good option for check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter, frequent check-ins and note-taking between sessions. These options give flexibility to match scheduling, comfort with being on camera, and communication style.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, California, Washington, Oregon
- Languages
- English