OUR TEAM

Candice Waltrip, PsyD is a licensed psychologist with over 20 years of mental health experience. Her philosophy is that therapy is preventative mental health care. An individual does not have to actively be in crisis to reap the benefits of solution-focused and evidence-based therapeutic interventions.
Her primary field of training is with justice-involved individuals, but her heart has always been with the high performance and athletic communities. As a high-performing individual both in athletics in her youth and as a professional in the mental health field, she has a unique ability to relate to clients and their experiences. Mental tenacity and resilience are skills that can be trained much in the same way we train our bodies to perform both in practice and under competitive pressure.
Her training within psychodynamic frameworks like attachment and object relations help guide clients toward healing mental fractures, breaking down mental blocks and exploring ways in which to strengthen a client’s confidence in their skills by creating safety in vulnerability. Dr. Waltrip values the skills involved in creating realistic expectations, limits and boundaries to ensure the client’s voice can be heard and respected both intrinsically and extrinsically.
Dr. Waltrip blends elements from psychodynamic psychotherapy, CBT, DBT, motivational interviewing, solution-focused therapy and the strengths-based Good Lives Model to help clients explore what their ultimate goals are, the motivations behind those goals and where the process veered off course so they can start to visualize and course correct. Dr. Waltrip’s passion stems from her own experiences battling mental blocks, periodically diminished self-confidence and tumultuous conditions within her own athletic experiences. She wants to be that person on the sidelines helping clients navigate the isolation, the pressure and the struggles inherent in high performance pursuits.
When Dr. Waltrip is not in the office, she is enjoying time with her family and friends, making pottery and working toward completing a half-marathon in all 50 states, completing about seven races per year.