Candice Ryan is a Marriage and Family Therapy intern at Northwest Relationships, practicing under the supervision of Brittany Thomas, LMFT. She works with individuals, couples, and families around anxiety, attachment, PTSD, grief, religious trauma, relational conflict, identity, LGBTQIA2S+ needs, and embracing and accommodating neurodivergence. Candice is especially drawn to focused, motivated clients, big personalities, queer couples and families, parents of trans or nonbinary kids, service industry folks, and clients at the intersection of queerness, disability, poverty, and sudden loss.

Candice draws from Emotionally Focused Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Solution-Focused Therapy. Her style is warm, heart-centered, and direct. She believes people often come to therapy stuck because coping strategies that once worked no longer meet their needs, and she likes getting to the roots of patterns and problems, but also recognizes that when someone is in real distress, they need stabilization and tools first. Candice sees the therapy room itself as a place to try out new ways of relating to oneself and others, and considers conflict not inherently negative but often interesting and useful.

Candice is currently pursuing her M.A. in Couple and Family Therapy at Antioch University Seattle and holds a B.S. in Psychology from Arizona State University. She is a Student Member of AAMFT and WAMFT, SBIRT-certified, and co-presented "Fat Liberation is for Every Body" at the Antioch Social Justice Symposium in 2024. She identifies as a middle-aged, white, queer, cis woman; was previously married, widowed, and is now partnered with a woman; is a parent to a queer, nonbinary teen; and was raised in evangelical Christianity before finding her way to spiritual practices grounded in the natural world. Candice is kink and poly friendly, fat-positive, antiracist, feminist, and working class, and brings a previous career as a cook and chef into the room as well. Outside of session, she's an avid gardener, loves natural bodies of water (especially hot springs), watches WNBA basketball, plays video games, weight lifts, and oil paints. Her community involvement centers on food and housing justice, including mutual aid, gardening collectives, and affordable housing advocacy.