Candyce Spruel

Candyce Spruel is a California-licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and relationship concerns. Candyce emphasizes each person's strengths and sees clients as the experts in their own lives. She aims to support people through the first steps toward a more fulfilling life.

She uses straightforward conversation and practical strategies in sessions. Clients can expect help with self-esteem, motivation, and confidence. She also addresses body image, communication problems, guilt and shame, and workplace stress. The approach centers on what matters most to the individual and on skills that can be used between sessions.

Candyce draws from several methods to match a person's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy offers concrete tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps clarify values and take committed action. Emotionally-Focused Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy offer ways to work with intense emotions and improve communication.

Sessions move at the client's pace. Candyce encourages small, achievable steps and practices tailored to day-to-day life. She pays attention to what the client already does well and builds on those strengths.

This therapist works with adults concerned about life purpose, mood disorders, post-traumatic stress, forgiveness, and self-love. She practices in California and conducts therapy in English. To begin, follow the site's Start Therapy flow to complete a brief questionnaire and schedule a session.

Therapeutic approaches and online sessions

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people identify what matters most and take small actions in line with those values. It focuses on noticing thoughts without getting stuck and moving toward meaningful goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) gives clear steps for changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and lift mood. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on emotions in relationships and helps people communicate feelings more effectively to improve connection and understanding.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as needed over time.

The original biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm available options when you schedule. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule and remove commute time. It can also allow shorter check-ins or phone-based sessions if that better fits a single day's needs. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and tools used in CBT, ACT, and EFT for remote sessions so clients keep making progress between meetings.