Candace Lance

Relationships are where our deepest wounds show up and where our greatest healing can happen. I work with couples caught in conflict cycles that never resolve, partners growing silently apart, and individuals carrying relationship patterns they can't seem to escape. Whether you're navigating disconnection, infidelity, communication breakdown, or the slow erosion of intimacy, I help you understand the cycle and change it. You came together for a reason. Let's find your way back.

My work is rooted in Satir Experiential Therapy, one of the most relational, body-aware approaches in the MFT world. Rather than talking about what is happening, we work with what shows up in the room, in your body, your nervous system, and your relationships in real time. Satir believed people are not broken, they are adaptive. Every pattern keeping you stuck made sense once. My job is not to pathologize what kept you safe, it is to help you find your way back to yourself.

EFT is one of the most researched approaches for couples work and the model I reach for when partners are stuck in cycles they cannot break. EFT helps couples identify the pursue-withdraw pattern driving their disconnection, access the primary emotion underneath the conflict, and create new moments of genuine vulnerability with each other. For individuals, EFT informs how I understand attachment wounds and the way early relational learning shows up in adult relationships and self-worth.

Attachment theory is the lens through which I understand almost everything... how we learn to love, how we protect ourselves from being hurt, and why the patterns in our closest relationships feel impossible to change. Whether you carry wounds from early attachment injuries or are a couple caught in a cycle that traces back to what love looked like in your family of origin, attachment theory gives us a map. It tells us where the fear lives and where the longing underneath it waits to be met.

Relationships are where our deepest wounds show up and where our greatest healing can happen. I work with couples caught in conflict cycles that never resolve, partners growing silently apart, and individuals carrying relationship patterns they can't seem to escape. Whether you're navigating disconnection, infidelity, communication breakdown, or the slow erosion of intimacy, I help you understand the cycle and change it. You came together for a reason. Let's find your way back.

Attachment theory is the lens through which I understand almost everything — how we learn to love, how we protect ourselves from being hurt, and why the patterns in our closest relationships feel impossible to change. Whether you carry wounds from early attachment injuries or are a couple caught in a cycle that traces back to what love looked like in your family of origin, attachment theory gives us a map. It tells us where the fear lives — and where the longing underneath it waits to be met.

EFT is one of the most researched approaches for couples work — and the model I reach for when partners are stuck in cycles they cannot break. EFT helps couples identify the pursue-withdraw pattern driving their disconnection, access the primary emotion underneath the conflict, and create new moments of genuine vulnerability with each other. For individuals, EFT informs how I understand attachment wounds and the way early relational learning shows up in adult relationships and self-worth.

My work is rooted in Satir Experiential Therapy — one of the most relational, body-aware approaches in the MFT world. Rather than talking about what is happening, we work with what shows up in the room — in your body, your nervous system, and your relationships in real time. Satir believed people are not broken, they are adaptive. Every pattern keeping you stuck made sense once. My job is not to pathologize what kept you safe — it is to help you find your way back to yourself.

Every couple hits rough patches. But when conflict keeps cycling, communication shuts down, or intimacy has quietly disappeared, it can start to feel like you are living with a stranger. Couples work here is not about deciding who is right. It is about understanding what is actually happening between you, the patterns, the unspoken stuff, the distance, and building something better on purpose. Both of you deserve to feel heard. Both of you deserve a relationship that actually works.