About Candece
Candece Cooper-Charles is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Texas with five years of professional experience. She works with adults on common struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and compassion fatigue. She frames therapy as a place to talk and make practical changes, and she aims to make that first step feel doable for people who are unsure where to begin.
Her approach is straightforward and people-focused. She helps clients name what feels hard and then tries small, realistic steps to reduce distress.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize clear communication, building self-understanding, and improving coping skills for day-to-day life. She has experience supporting people after trauma and abuse and helps them work through related issues such as attachment concerns, abandonment, and family of origin problems. She also addresses relationship patterns like codependency, communication problems, and commitment worries.
Work and career stress, caregiver strain, blended family issues, divorce and separation, body image, and feelings of emptiness are other areas she commonly addresses. Therapy with Candece typically focuses on practical skills and steady progress. She invites clients to set goals and checks in on what is and isn’t working.
Sessions are conversational and tailored to the person’s pace and needs. Her practice is conducted in English and is offered through online formats. To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps connect people to scheduling options that fit their lives.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skill building and trauma recovery. One common approach focuses on teaching coping skills for stress and anxiety, such as breathing techniques, behavioral changes, and structured problem solving to ease daily distress.Another approach centers on trauma-informed work that helps people process difficult experiences and reduce their impact on current relationships and mood. This work often involves pacing, grounding tools, and practices for managing strong emotions so daily life feels more manageable.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist collaborates with each person to identify what fits best based on their goals, needs, and comfort. That might mean trying different tools and checking in frequently to see what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a deeper exchange is helpful. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day or to keep regular contact between longer sessions. These options support flexible scheduling and make it easier to maintain work on therapy even with a packed life.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English