About Candace
Candace Melvin is a licensed clinical mental health counselor who helps people when life feels overwhelming. She sees individuals who are drained, anxious, or stuck and offers steady guidance toward feeling more like themselves again. Her style is calm and practical, aimed at helping someone pause, rest, and begin healing.
Candace draws on more than 11 years of experience in counseling. She blends body-focused work with talk therapy so people can notice how stress shows up in their bodies as well as in their thoughts.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear, doable steps people can try between meetings to make small changes that add up. She uses client-centered methods to keep the conversation grounded in each person’s priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thinking and replace it with more helpful patterns.
Mindfulness skills are offered to reduce reactivity and increase present-moment awareness. Candace also applies motivational interviewing to support people who feel stuck or unsure about change. Her approach is collaborative - she listens first, then helps set realistic goals that fit daily life.
Many people work on stress, anxiety, grief, identity questions, and relationship or intimacy challenges. Sessions are available through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules. Location is North Carolina and services are provided in English.
Her license is LCMHC, North Carolina LCMHC 12741.
How somatic and practical approaches translate online
Somatic work helps people notice how stress and emotion live in the body. Online sessions can guide gentle body awareness, breath practices, and movement awareness to reduce tension and increase calm. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the client’s priorities; the therapist reflects and supports whatever matters most to the person seeking help. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and offers concrete exercises to test and change those patterns, which can be practiced between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods, and adjust based on what feels most helpful. Decisions are collaborative so the person can shape therapy around their needs, pace, and comfort level.
Online formats offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let the therapist and client meet face to face. Phone sessions remove the need for video when that feels better. Live chat and text messaging allow short check-ins or ongoing contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into daily routines and to practice skills in real time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English