Kandi Willhoit
A practical, faith-informed counselor for parents
- Credentials
- LPC-MHSP
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed in
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kandi
Kandi Willhoit is a licensed professional counselor, LPC-MHSP, practicing in Tennessee. She focuses on common and often overwhelming issues like stress, anxiety, depression, and addictions. Her approach is compassionate and faith-informed, and she centers each session on the client’s personal values and life situation.
Kandi aims to help people gain clearer self-understanding and better communication skills. She uses straightforward tools so clients can practice new habits between sessions. Conversations are direct but kind, and she helps people set realistic steps forward.
Background and approach
With five years of experience, Kandi draws on evidence-based techniques to identify patterns that keep problems stuck. She works with concerns such as family difficulties, codependency, caregiver stress, and process addictions like gambling or compulsive behaviors. She also addresses issues around self-esteem, body image, shame, and finding purpose.
Sessions often include skill-building for emotion regulation and practical strategies to reduce cravings or manage anxiety. Kandi also supports work on attachment-related wounds and improving everyday communication. The goal is steady, usable change rather than quick fixes.
Therapy is offered in English and delivered online through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and scheduling follows based on therapist availability.
Online approaches that meet you where you are
Evidence-based methods are used to make practical change. One common approach focuses on identifying unhelpful patterns and replacing them with new habits. This helps with anxiety, depressive thinking, and repetitive behaviors tied to addictions. Another frequently used method teaches emotion regulation and coping skills so intense feelings become easier to manage in daily life. That approach is useful for stress, caregiver burnout, and relationship conflicts.Choosing the right method is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they try an approach and adjust it over time so it fits the person’s life and needs.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Sessions can happen by video call or phone when a longer conversation is needed. Live chat or text-based messaging can be used for brief check-ins, skill practice, or when scheduling is tight. These formats allow the therapist to support progress while fitting therapy into a busy family schedule.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Kandi
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point