Kandace Perryman, LCMHC

Kandace Perryman is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) based in North Carolina. She focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, relationship and family tensions, grief, intimacy questions, anger, self-esteem, depression, and coping with life changes. Kandace brings 17 years of experience and a collaborative, person-centered manner to sessions.

She prefers straightforward, practical work that helps people notice what's getting in the way and try new ways of responding. Sessions are conversational and aim to surface patterns, test small changes, and build skills that fit daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is one method Kandace uses to help people change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.

Kandace also draws on client-centered principles, offering a listening stance that helps people feel heard and understood. For relationship issues she incorporates elements from Emotionally-Focused Therapy and the Gottman and Imago approaches to address connection and communication. These tools are chosen to suit each person’s needs rather than as a one-size-fits-all plan.

Clients often work on practical goals like managing panic, improving communication, dealing with loss, or navigating major life transitions. Kandace also supports people facing adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, postpartum changes, obsessive thoughts and compulsions, and first responder stress.

She conducts sessions in English and is available to work with international clients. Therapy can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How approach and online sessions fit together

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on a respectful, listening stance that helps people put words to what matters and feel understood; it is useful for exploring identity, grief, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical strategies for anxiety, depression, and unwanted behaviors. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people identify emotional experiences and repair connection in close relationships, which can be helpful for intimacy and communication problems.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kandace will collaborate with each person to select methods that match goals, needs, and preferences. That means starting with what feels most important, trying an approach, and adjusting as progress and feedback suggest.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when seeing expressions matters. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when a hands-free option fits a schedule. Live chat and text-based messaging can support brief check-ins, skill practice, or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue work while managing travel, work hours, or family demands.