Dr. Candace Body, LPC

Dr. Candace Body is a Georgia-based Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 20 years of experience supporting people through a wide range of emotional and life challenges. She brings extensive work with emotionally challenged youth, ADHD-related behaviors, depression across the lifespan, and trauma, drawing on long-term practice in both residential and outpatient settings including community mental health centers and group homes.

Her clinical background includes both individual and group therapy, and she often addresses co-occurring concerns such as anxiety, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress symptoms, obsessive patterns, and relationship difficulties. Her practice covers many specialty areas, including stress, anxiety, anger, self-esteem, career concerns, family and parenting issues, grief, bipolar disorder, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, ADHD, adoption and foster care matters, blended family dynamics, body image, caregiver stress, commitment and communication challenges, isolation and life purpose questions, mood disorders, and perinatal concerns like postpartum depression.

Dr. Body uses an integrative approach tailored to each person's needs, drawing on client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), mindfulness therapy, motivational interviewing, solution-focused techniques, and trauma-focused therapy. She emphasizes the therapeutic relationship as a collaborative partnership built on mutual trust, respect, clear communication, and a shared commitment to the work, and she frames therapy as a practical process aimed at helping people move toward their goals.