About Candice 

I believe in the capacity of us all to define our life's path by taking risks and developing psychological skills: 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 skills that I had used as a lawyer toward navigating with clients these more universal aspects of life. 

I have been treating clients at the Center for Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy since I began as a graduate trainee there in January 2023. I graduated with my M.S. in Mental Health Counseling from Pace University in December 2023. As a graduate trainee at the Center, and now as a supervised psychotherapist, I have received specialized training in treating obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and associated symptoms. I am also trained to treat 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.

I hold a limited permit to practice mental health counseling in the State of New York (MHC-LP #P127067). My work at the Center for Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy is currently supervised by the Center's Clinical Director, Dr. Steven Phillipson. My work at Mindful Psychological Services PLLC is supervised by Dr. Melissa Jermann, a licensed psychologist and specialist in the treatment of OCD, anxiety, trauma, and PTSD.