About Candace
Candace Harren welcomes people feeling overwhelmed by stress, grief, anxiety, or low self-esteem. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in Minnesota with 15 years of clinical experience.
Background and approach
Her approach is straightforward and focused on helping people take practical steps toward feeling better. Candace centers sessions on what matters most to the person in front of her.
She listens without judgment and helps individuals identify small, doable changes. Conversations tend to be goal-oriented while still making space for emotion and meaning.
Her background includes supporting people facing depression, compassion fatigue, and the emotional fallout of major life changes. She also addresses concerns related to adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, cancer, hospice and end-of-life issues, and substance use.
Candace works with issues like guilt, shame, loneliness, and questions about life purpose. In session she draws on client-centered therapy to follow each person’s lead and create a respectful, collaborative relationship.
She also uses solution-focused methods to set clear short-term goals and track progress week to week. The result is a mix of listening, reflection, and practical next steps.
Candace aims to make the process manageable. She helps people break larger problems into small tasks.
That steady focus on doable change often helps people move forward when life feels stuck.
How these approaches work in online therapy
Candace uses client-centered therapy to follow the person’s lead and build a respectful working relationship. That approach focuses on listening carefully, reflecting what matters to the person, and making space for their feelings. It is helpful when someone needs to be heard and understood before making changes.She also uses solution-focused therapy to identify specific, short-term goals and small steps to reach them. This method is useful for people who want practical strategies and measurable progress on issues like anxiety, stress, or caregiver burnout.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Candace will discuss options with each person and decide together what fits their needs, goals, and preferences. The plan can be adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into daily life. Video calls are close to an in-person conversation, phone sessions can be less demanding on bandwidth, live chat can work for quick check-ins, and messaging lets someone share thoughts between meetings. These formats give flexibility for different routines and communication styles while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Personality disorders
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English