About Candiss
Candiss Williams is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. She writes plainly and listens carefully to understand each person’s priorities. Her practice is based in Texas and she draws on eight years of clinical experience as an LPC.
She focuses on relationship concerns, parenting strain, self-esteem, grief, addictions, trauma and abuse, and mood disorders such as bipolar. Candiss also addresses issues like abandonment, codependency, communication problems, and coping with discrimination.
Background and approach
Her approach is practical and goal-oriented. In sessions she uses straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral work to spot unhelpful thoughts and build new habits. She also uses dialectical behavior ideas when emotions feel intense, and client-centered methods that keep conversations focused on what matters to the individual.
Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are woven in to help with motivation and present-moment coping. Candiss has a background in school counseling, crisis intervention, domestic abuse support, substance use work, and juvenile and adult criminal justice settings. That varied experience informs how she responds to stress, trauma, and life transitions.
She emphasizes practical coping skills the person can use between sessions. People who choose her often want clear techniques and a steady, respectful listener. She asks about goals early and builds a plan that matches each person’s needs.
Sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging for people in Texas who prefer remote options.
How these approaches work in online sessions
Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real-life evidence. In online sessions this often means setting small experiments or homework between meetings to change patterns and monitor progress.Dialectical behavior therapy teaches skills for managing strong emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. Over video or text, skills practice and role plays help people calm reactions and try new ways of handling conflict or intense feelings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and how they prefer to communicate. That plan can be adjusted as progress is reviewed.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a short break, live chat works for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing, low-intensity contact between appointments. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and other obligations.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Minnesota, Missouri
- Languages
- English