About Kandace
Kandace Graves is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor who focuses on helping people manage stressful life moments. She brings a calm, steady presence and practical steps to help clients cope with anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, and ADHD. Kandace works from North Carolina and offers sessions by video, phone, chat, or text.
She earned a Master of Science in Mental Health Counseling from Capella University and completed a yearlong internship serving an urban community in Ohio.
Background and approach
Her work draws on several evidence-based techniques to match a person's needs and goals. She pays attention to how thoughts, feelings, and behavior influence each other and uses that understanding to guide change. Kandace emphasizes a person-centered stance that recognizes each client’s worth.
She also uses approaches that teach skills for tolerating difficult emotions and for changing unhelpful thinking patterns. Sessions are collaborative and paced to fit what the client can manage. She often helps people dealing with trauma, relationship difficulties, parenting stress, and major life transitions.
Kandace also supports people facing issues related to intimacy, self-esteem, anger, and bipolar mood challenges. Her work includes supporting clients who identify as LGBT and those coping with loss. Counseling can bring up hard feelings as part of the healing process, and she prepares people to do that work.
She asks for commitment to the process and occasional exercises between sessions to help progress toward goals.
How therapeutic approaches meet online care
Many of Kandace's approaches focus on changing thoughts and building coping skills. Cognitive behavior-oriented techniques teach how thoughts influence feelings and behavior, and then introduce simple exercises to test and shift unhelpful thinking. These techniques can help with anxiety, depression, ADHD-related challenges, and mood regulation.Person-centered methods place the client's experience and values at the center of sessions. This approach creates space to be heard and to set goals that matter to the client. Dialectical-style skills work teaches ways to tolerate strong emotions without reacting, which is useful for anger, relationship conflicts, and intense stress.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose techniques that match goals, preferences, and how quickly the client wants to move. Sessions are adjusted over time if different tools would be more helpful.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is low or a camera is not wanted. Live chat and text-based messaging provide quick check-ins, brief skill practice, and flexibility during the week. These options help maintain continuity of care and make it simpler to keep appointments around work, school, or family demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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