About Candyce
Candyce Bell offers support for people facing stress, anxiety, LGBTQ concerns, relationship challenges, depression, and adapting to life changes.
Background and approach
With a decade of clinical experience, she draws on work in crisis intervention, substance use, and mental health counseling to address a broad range of difficulties, including effects of physical trauma and emotional abuse. Candyce emphasizes listening and collaboration while guiding clients through practical coping strategies and emotional processing.
She holds LPC and LCPC licenses, enabling practice across state lines, and brings experience from both individual and group settings. Her approach prioritizes creating an open, nonjudgmental space where clients can explore attachment, abandonment, caregiver stress, chronic illness, communication problems, and other complex issues.
Candyce aims to help people build resilience, clarify values, and find manageable steps toward healthier functioning. Clients can expect a warm, straightforward clinician who meets them where they are and helps tailor work to each person’s needs.
Candyce encourages those taking the first step toward therapy and supports progress at a pace that feels right for the individual.
Evidence-Informed Approaches and Online Therapy Options
Candyce uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on helping people manage symptoms and build skills. One common method involves cognitive and behavioral strategies that identify unhelpful thinking patterns and teach new coping skills to reduce stress and anxiety. Another frequently used approach emphasizes trauma-informed work, which helps people process past emotional or physical trauma and develop safer ways of relating and regulating feelings.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with clients to assess needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting techniques over time so treatment fits the individual rather than forcing a single model onto every situation. This shared decision making helps match methods to the issue at hand and the client’s comfort level.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, making it easier to fit sessions into busy lives and to maintain continuity across locations. These formats allow licensed professionals to provide consistent support and skill-building work while accommodating different communication styles and schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Missouri
- Languages
- English