Guiding
Principles
COLLABORATION + COMPASSION + CURIOSITY
I want to help you discover the best route to healing and whole-hearted living—perhaps not the easiest nor the shortest, but the most prudent, reasonable and life-giving. And I will endeavor to do that collaboratively with compassion and curiosity.
“One of my goals with clients is to facilitate exchanges and interactions that invite truth and kindness and growth. If we can cultivate internal safety and boost confidence while increasing external vulnerability and transparency, we will grow.”
about Candice
Candice’s life story eventually led her on her own personal counseling journey. At an early age, she experienced the practical and emotional implications of her parents’ divorce and understands the stress and trauma that can come from parental and marital conflict as well as the complexities of blended families. She also recognizes the challenges and pain of having had caregivers with addiction and unaddressed mental health challenges.
After being married almost 11 years, she was widowed suddenly at 34 with 3 children under 4, her youngest with special needs. Because of that and other challenges she has faced, from parenting alone to relocating multiple times, and experiencing the loss of familial relationships (including a second marriage), she recognizes the necessity of resourcing yourself and the desire to rebuild and flourish despite doubt and despair and disillusionment. “My circumstances had become so dark and difficult. I had to completely rebuild myself from the inside out, physically, mentally. emotionally and even spiritually.” She has experienced the “both and” of looking back and forward. “I don’t know that any of us escape grief and hardship of some sort. But I do believe, it’s about what we do with it. I believe toxic positivity is counterproductive and even harmful, and—I believe, we all have the capacity to take control of our lives and change the trajectories despite awful things that happen to us.”
The path we navigate . . .
