Candace Coston, LCSW

Candace Coston earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from Campbell University in North Carolina and completed graduate studies in Social Work at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington. She has built a clinical practice focused on behavioral therapy and has worked across diverse settings and age groups, helping children under age 10 whose behaviors interfered with success at home and school, adolescents ages 12 to 19 who needed behavioral health support while navigating academic and social expectations, adults with co-occurring mental health and developmental disabilities, and members of the military through individual and couples therapy.

Candace centers her work on what brings each person meaning and joy, who matters most in their lives, and the goals they hope to reach. She explores clients' values and self-view to clarify the destinations they want to move toward - which may be mental, emotional, physical, or interpersonal - and then collaborates on practical steps to get there. Her practice emphasizes strengths and forward-focused change while attending to the patterns that maintain distress.

To guide this work she draws on narrative therapy, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), solution-focused therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and motivational interviewing. She has experience supporting people coping with anxiety, trauma and PTSD, depression, low self-esteem and poor self-image, self-criticism, impulsivity tied to anger, difficulties adjusting to change, grief, and loss. Candace holds the LCSW credential - Licensed Clinical Social Worker - which indicates advanced training in clinical social work practice. She is not currently accepting new clients.