About Candace
Candace Tompkins helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, or depression. She introduces calm, practical steps so clients can start feeling steadier and more in control. Her style is respectful and compassionate, with a focus on what each person needs right now.
Candace is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, with 15 years of experience working in Florida. She adapts conversations and plans to match a person’s situation instead of using a one-size-fits-all approach.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on real-world changes that make daily life easier. Her work draws on client-centered therapy, where the client’s values guide the pace and goals. She also uses cognitive behavioral methods to identify unhelpful thoughts and develop new habits.
Mindfulness and elements of dialectical behavior therapy are used to build emotional regulation and present-moment coping skills. Candace often supports people facing compassion fatigue, trauma and abuse, addiction concerns, chronic illness, or major life transitions. She also addresses relationship strain, communication problems, and challenges tied to fertility, hospice, or caregiving roles.
The emphasis is on practical tools and steady support. People who choose her can expect direct, plain-spoken conversations and collaborative planning. She helps clients set small, manageable steps and tracks progress together.
The goal is clearer thinking, better coping, and more confidence moving forward.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s priorities and rhythm. The therapist listens closely, follows the client’s lead, and shapes goals around what matters most in daily life. This approach helps when someone needs a supportive space to sort out decisions or regain direction.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Sessions teach practical skills to spot unhelpful thinking and try small behavioral experiments. This method often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress by giving clear steps to practice between meetings.
Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, adds skills for emotional regulation and managing intense reactions. It includes techniques for distress tolerance and improving communication, which can be useful for people dealing with anger, impulsivity, or relationship strain.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and is decided together. The therapist will ask about needs, goals, and what has or hasn’t worked before. From there she tailors a mix of client-centered conversation and skill-based techniques to fit the person’s preferences.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which allows flexible scheduling and different ways to connect. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text can fit quick check-ins or times when typing feels easier. These options help clients keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and other responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English