LCSW
Candida Jacoby
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Licensed Clinical Social Worker who works collaboratively with clients on anxiety, stress, self esteem, grief, and life transitions using a holistic, mind body approach.
Focus areas
- Stress
- Coping skills
- Self esteem
- Anxiety
- Grief and loss
About Candida
The person you will be working with.
Candida Jacoby has experience working with individuals from diverse ethnic, socioeconomic, religious, and spiritual backgrounds who are navigating a variety of life's challenges. She is dedicated to working collaboratively with each client to help resolve both temporary and deeply rooted issues.
One of the most important relationships you will ever have is the one you have with yourself. Candida focuses on helping clients gain a deeper understanding of who they are, empowering them to move forward in a healthy and purposeful way. Her approach is holistic, emphasizing the mind body connection and treating the whole person.
She specializes in anxiety and stress management, confidence and self worth building, depression and emotional resilience, grief and loss support, relationship difficulties including parent child relationships and single parenting, and life transitions such as career changes, retirement, or significant personal shifts. She utilizes strength based and person centered approaches, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and mindfulness and meditation techniques, creating a personalized treatment plan that best fits each person's needs.
To schedule an appointment with Candida, contact our intake team at (224)-241-2197.
Populations served
- Adolescents (14 to 19)
- Adults
- Older adults (65+)
- LGBTQIA+
Therapeutic approaches
- Strength based and person centered approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Mindfulness and meditation
Availability
Contact our intake team to confirm availability. Call (224)-241-2197 or text 630.710.5729.
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Areas of support
Specialized support with Candida.
Mindfulness-Based Counseling in Oak Brook
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Changes in work, relationships, family roles, health, identity, retirement, or daily routine can create uncertainty even when the change was expected or chosen. Counseling offers space to understand what the transition means, what feels unsettled, and what you want to carry forward.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is an approach that examines connections among thoughts, emotions, behavior, and everyday situations. Several Oak Brook Counseling & Wellness clinicians use CBT within individualized counseling plans.
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You do not need to attend counseling with a partner or family member to work on relationship concerns. Individual counseling can help you understand recurring patterns, boundaries, communication, attachment, conflict, and the impact relationships have on your emotional well-being.
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Anxiety can make ordinary decisions feel unusually demanding. Worry may follow you into work, school, relationships, sleep, or quiet moments that used to feel restorative. Counseling offers a private place to understand what is happening and develop responses that fit your age, circumstances, and goals.
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Grief can bring sadness, anger, numbness, relief, confusion, longing, changes in routine, or a shifting sense of identity. There is no single correct order for these experiences and no universal deadline for feeling different. Counseling offers a place to speak honestly about the loss and its effect on life now.
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Older adulthood can include meaningful freedom and connection as well as loss, uncertainty, changing roles, relationship concerns, or questions about what comes next. Counseling should respond to the person's actual priorities rather than treating age itself as the problem.
Learn moreSelf Esteem Counseling in Oak Brook
Low self-esteem can sound like an internal voice that dismisses strengths, magnifies mistakes, or makes another person's approval feel necessary before taking action. Counseling with Candida Jacoby can examine how that pattern developed, how it appears now, and what a more balanced relationship with yourself could look like.
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Interested in working with Candida?
Our intake team can help you decide. Tell us what you are looking for and we will talk through whether this clinician is a good match, or suggest someone who might be.