Candice Bruce, LCSW

Candice Bruce is a licensed clinical social worker who brings six years of practice to her work in Florida. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, stress, and major life adjustments. She also supports those facing relationship strain, family concerns, grief, and issues around self-esteem and intimacy.

Her style is straightforward and strengths-based. She treats the person in front of her as the expert on their life while offering tools and ideas to try. Sessions aim to be practical, with clear steps clients can practice between meetings.

Candice uses cognitive behavioral ideas alongside client-centered and emotionally focused approaches. That means she helps clients notice patterns of thought and behavior, explore feelings in relationships, and build clearer, more helpful ways of responding. She also draws on mindfulness and motivational interviewing to support change when needed.

People typically work on coping skills for everyday stress, managing mood swings, addressing addictive behaviors, or rebuilding after loss and trauma. She helps with career concerns, parenting struggles, and compassion fatigue too. Work in sessions can include short skill-building exercises, goal setting, and gentle reflection.

Candice welcomes English-speaking clients in Florida and beyond. Her approach is collaborative: she listens first, suggests practical options, and adjusts the plan as clients try new strategies and report back.

CBT and Emotion-Focused Care for Online Sessions

Client-centered work starts with the therapist listening and reflecting what matters most to the client. This approach focuses on understanding your perspective and helping you build on strengths and choices that already exist in your life. It is useful for people who want a supportive space to organize thoughts and make decisions.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. Sessions often include short exercises, thought records, and small behavioral experiments to reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms. EFT, or emotionally-focused therapy, concentrates on patterns in close relationships and helps people notice and change emotional responses that cause conflict or distance.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Candice will discuss options and help choose methods that match your goals and preferences, adjusting as you try strategies and report back. That collaboration helps keep the plan relevant and practical.

Online sessions offer flexible ways to engage. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and guided exercises, phone sessions can be easier when video isn't possible, and live chat or text-based messaging support brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between appointments. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between sessions.