About Candace
Candace Thom-Rogers is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, trauma, or relationship stress. She speaks plainly and listens carefully. Her goal is to create a calm space where people can breathe, process, and begin to move forward.
Candace uses a trauma-informed and strengths-based outlook. She aims to meet each person where they are and work at a steady, realistic pace. Sessions focus on practical tools that can be used between meetings to ease daily strain and improve coping.
Background and approach
She has 24 years of experience in counseling and brings that background to each conversation. Her work often addresses mood disorders, post-traumatic stress, and the impacts of past hurt on present life. She also supports people dealing with relationship problems, identity concerns, and grief.
Candace is attentive to issues common to LGBT clients and offers faith-integrated options when requested. She includes skill-building strategies drawn from established therapeutic techniques to help with emotional regulation and crisis moments. Therapy with her emphasizes clear communication, small steps, and steady progress.
People who want practical strategies, honest feedback, and a steady presence in hard moments may find her style helpful. She practices in New Jersey as an LPC and conducts sessions in English. To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
Sessions are offered through multiple online formats to fit varied needs.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Candace commonly uses trauma-informed care to help people understand how past experiences affect current feelings and reactions. This approach focuses on safety, pacing, and rebuilding a sense of control, which can help with post-traumatic stress and recovery from abuse.She also integrates skills-based strategies drawn from Dialectical Behavior Therapy-style work to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. These tools are useful for overwhelming emotions, self-harm urges, and improving daily coping.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Candace will discuss goals and preferences and help decide which methods fit best. She adjusts plans over time as needs change so therapy stays practical and goal-oriented.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text messaging lets people share thoughts between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy days while maintaining a consistent therapeutic relationship.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English