C.E.R.

Candace is a Linehan Board Certified DBT Clinician.  Her clinical passions include working with adolescents and adults with severe emotion dysregulation, including suicidality, self-harm, and trauma, as well as offering supportive parent coaching rooted in DBT.  Her career in mental health and youth services began in 2005 working with underserved children and adolescents, including youth in foster care, the juvenile justice system, and pregnant and parenting teens as a high school teacher in an alternative school setting. Candace has gained extensive experience across levels of care, serving as the lead clinician in a psychiatric hospital, locked DBT residential program, group home for adjudicated youth, and an intensive outpatient program serving young children through adulthood in her hometown of Reno, Nevada. 

In 2016, Candace relocated to the Boston area to work alongside her long-term mentor, Alan Fruzzetti, PhD, to help open the 3East DBT Boys Residential Program at McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School. At 3East, she was honored to build the program from the ground up with a talented team of DBT trainers and practitioners, including Michael Hollander, PhD, Blaise Aguirre, MD, Anna Precht, PsyD, and Lindsey Overstreet, PhD, and she later served as the Director of Clinical Services. In addition to directing a dedicated staff providing comprehensive clinical care to the residents and families she served at McLean, she led trauma-informed yoga, mindfulness, and body awareness groups for five years.

Candace is passionate about providing evidence-based and holistic treatment for trauma. She is intensively trained in DBT-PTSD and has co-led international trainings with the developer of the treatment, Dr. Martin Bohus, MD.  She provides ongoing DBT and trauma consultation and training to hospital programs and DBT teams across the U.S. and internationally.  As a training member of the Center for DBT and Families, Candace offers affordable intensive DBT and DBT-PTSD Intensive Trainings for mental health providers. She is dedicated to helping therapists implement evidence-based and adherent treatment to help their clients resolve life-long struggles with emotion dysregulation and the impact of complex trauma.

On a more personal note, Candace loves spending time with her family, including her furry friends. She enjoys traveling around the world to experience new environments, cultures, and cuisine. She practices yoga regularly, and loves spending time in nature. When Candace isn’t working, exploring, or enjoying the outdoors with her lab Daisy, she enjoys spending time reading, inventing new recipes, and playing board games.