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(Virtual) Couples Counseling Done Differently

Stop Fighting. Start Connecting.

Find Your Way Back to Your Partner and Yourself

You Don't Have to Stay Stuck

You know that feeling when a fight starts brewing–the same fight you and your partner have had a million times. You push one another's buttons. You wish the other would change. And that things between you would just be easier. You accuse, shut down, argue, and walk away feeling alone and misunderstood. Why does this keep happening?
 

You might be getting stuck in patterns that are damaging your relationship. But connection is your birthright, and getting unstuck is easier than you might think.

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How I Can Help 

Individual
Therapy

  • Better understand yourself

  • Learn to ground yourself and regulate 

  • Get practical skills for managing anxiety and overcoming trauma

  • Learn more about Candy's individual therapy model

Virtual
Couples Counseling

  • Convenient virtual appointments 

  • Relational Life Therapy Model

  • Connect with and understand your partner on a deeper level

  • Learn new skills and break bad habits

  • Unpack key challenges and recurring fights

  • Learn more about Candy's couples' therapy model and couples' therapy options

Somatic Experiencing Sessions & Consults (SE Students/Providers) 

  • Learn from a SE practitioner with 20+ years of experience! 

  • Get help and advice for any SE level 

  • Build your SE credits

  • ​Get personal and case consultations

  • Learn how to deepen your skills and integrate relational healing 

  • Get the details on Candy's SE training for professionals

Couples Therapy Packages

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Couples Boot Camp

  • $1,200 for 4, 2-hour sessions

  • A personal workshop tailored to you and your partner 

  • Identify your unique pitfalls and recurring conflicts 

  • Learn the key skills you need to thrive in a healthy relationship

  • Develop new connection and communication skills

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Couples Intensive

  • $2,500 for 2-days back-to-back

  • Unpack your biggest challenges

  • Perfect for couples on the brink of ending things

  • Designed to help you do a 'relational reckoning' and decide if the relationship is worth fighting for

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Self-Paced Course

  • $50 per video 

  • Recorded workshop unpacks crucial relational strategies

  • Build skills specific to you and your partner

  • Watch any time, any place

  • Perfect for couples who want to dig deeper but have packed schedules 

Reimagine Your Relationship

As a Terry Real Relational Life Therapy model therapist, my mission is to help couples do counseling differently. For example, I help couples: 

  • Identify their unique pitfalls and fighting styles

  • Decide if their relationship is worth staying in, and how to save it

  • Unpack what triggers them and why

  • Help couples build the everyday skills they need to communicate and connect

  • Teach them how to regulate their emotions and ground themselves through somatic experiencing

The Relationship Grid | Terry Real

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First, we gather data. We identify how you and your partner show up when you're upset.

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Then we explore your families of origin, specifically why you've learned to adapt and cope the way you have.

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Lastly, we work on building skills. These are the crucial skills that shift your dynamic out of conflict and into deep connection.

How It Works

Candy's warm, friendly, well-organized approach helped calm our anxiety about beginning couples therapy. And most importantly, she has been more helpful than either of us imagined possible. She offered us a clear and concrete way to navigate conflict that helps us move from getting polarized or 'walking on eggshells' into an open, honest, caring connection. Her skill at working with both our unproductive interactions as a couple and our 'young parts' that result in those unproductive interactions has been extraordinarily helpful. We are deeply grateful for Candy's supportive and skillful guidance in growing both as individuals and as a couple.

- Jim & Denise

About Candy Smith

Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor | Somatic Experiencing™ (SE®) Practitioner | Registered Play Therapist / Supervisor

I'm Candy. I'm a wife, mother, and grandmother, and I am passionate about helping people heal and grow in relationships. I love helping people connect to their true selves and reconnect in new ways to their relationships. What gets me excited is understanding what makes people tick, why they get stuck, and how to have safe and loving relationships with the people they're close to.

 

I've found personal freedom in this work and want to share that freedom with others. My goal is to help people overcome the things that are getting in their way of being relational. 

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Specialties

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In my free time, I love playing with my grandkids here in Kansas City and planning my next trip to visit the ones out of state.

Candy Smith Counseling Profile / Headshot
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