About Candice 

I believe in the capacity of us all to define our life's path by taking risks and developing psychological flexibility: ultimately, to learn new ways to value, to choose, and to act how we most want to be as people. I would like to be your fellow traveler on that path.

My own path has been a winding one. I received my J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2004 and practiced law for 17 years before I became a therapist. In my first career, much like this one, I counseled clients through high-stakes personal and professional issues. In all obvious respects, my career was moving along the trajectory I had always pushed, onward. But in midlife I began to crave work that more directly involved fundamental human experiences like identifying purpose, love, loss, pain, struggle, and happiness. I became a therapist and redirected the compassion and problem solving that I had used as a lawyer toward navigating with clients these more universal aspects of life. 

I graduated with my M.S. in Mental Health Counseling from Pace University in 2023. As part of my clinical training, I received specialized experience treating all presentations of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and associated symptoms at the Center for Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy and at Mindful Psychological, where I currently practice as an LMHC. My training at the Center was supervised by Clinical Director Dr. Steven Phillipson, a world-renowned specialist in the treatment of OCD, with more than 30 years' experience in the field, and at Mindful, by Dr. Melissa Jermann, a Center-trained specialist in the treatment of OCD, anxiety, trauma, and PTSD. 

I also have extensive experience treating anxiety (including GAD, social anxiety, excessive rumination, worry and panic), obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD), problematic perfectionism, depression, and career, parenting, midlife, and relationship-related stresses. I have completed Level 3 Training in Gottman Couples Therapy, and I am specially trained to treat couples in which anxiety or OCD are an issue for one or both partners. 

When I am not seeing clients, I am also currently working on my PhD in Counseling and teaching undergraduate courses in the Psychology Department, as an adjunct lecturer at Pace.

I hold a license to practice mental health counseling in the State of New York (LMHC #017291) and have telehealth privileges in Florida (TPMC7235). I am also a Licensed Associate Counselor in New Jersey (LAC#37AC00841500). My work for New Jersey clients is supervised by Dr. Jermann.