- 25 years experience
- LMFT in California
- Strengths focused
About Candyce
Candyce Spruel is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of clinical experience in California. She focuses on practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, mood shifts, and relationship strain. She encourages clients to build on their strengths and take steady steps toward a more satisfying life.
She works in a straightforward, respectful way that centers the client's perspective. Sessions emphasize listening, clear feedback, and tools that people can try between appointments. Candyce treats mood disorders such as depression and bipolar concerns alongside everyday struggles like workplace stress and body image worries.
Her style draws on approaches that promote acceptance, values-driven action, and skills for managing difficult emotions. She helps people notice what matters to them, practice new behaviors, and reduce unhelpful patterns in thinking and reacting. Communication and forgiveness often come up when relationship strain is part of the problem.
Candyce also supports people dealing with guilt, shame, self-love, and questions about life purpose. She aims to make therapy a collaborative process where the client’s goals guide each step. Many clients find a combination of skill-building and reflective conversation useful for steady progress.
To begin, she asks people to reflect on their priorities and what they want to change. From there she and the client set realistic steps and practical strategies to try between sessions.
She works in a straightforward, respectful way that centers the client's perspective. Sessions emphasize listening, clear feedback, and tools that people can try between appointments. Candyce treats mood disorders such as depression and bipolar concerns alongside everyday struggles like workplace stress and body image worries.
Her style draws on approaches that promote acceptance, values-driven action, and skills for managing difficult emotions. She helps people notice what matters to them, practice new behaviors, and reduce unhelpful patterns in thinking and reacting. Communication and forgiveness often come up when relationship strain is part of the problem.
Candyce also supports people dealing with guilt, shame, self-love, and questions about life purpose. She aims to make therapy a collaborative process where the client’s goals guide each step. Many clients find a combination of skill-building and reflective conversation useful for steady progress.
To begin, she asks people to reflect on their priorities and what they want to change. From there she and the client set realistic steps and practical strategies to try between sessions.