Candace Coston

Candace Coston holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from Campbell University and completed graduate studies in social work at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington. She is a licensed clinical social worker in both North Carolina and Oregon and has four years of professional experience providing therapy.

Her clinical background spans a range of populations and settings. She has worked with young children whose behaviors interfered with success at home and school, supported adolescents aged 12 to 19 in identifying and meeting their behavioral health needs while navigating educational and justice-system expectations, and provided care for adults with co-occurring mental health and developmental disabilities. She currently works with the military population, offering individual and couples therapy.

Candace’s approach begins by exploring what brings clients joy, the activities they value, the people who matter to them, and the goals they want to reach. From those starting points she examines values, core beliefs, and self-view, then collaborates with clients to map steps toward the destinations they want to reach - whether those goals are emotional, mental, physical, or interpersonal.

She draws on evidence-informed methods to support change, including narrative therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, solution-focused therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and motivational interviewing. Candace has experience addressing symptoms related to anxiety, trauma, depression, post-traumatic stress, low self-esteem and poor self-image, self-critical thinking, impulsivity linked to anger, adjustment difficulties, grief, and loss.