Kandy Hirsch

As a Licensed Professional Counselor I help clients in the areas of:

• Quitting smoking and other habits
• Weight loss and body image;
• Performance enhancement
• Working with grief and loss;
• Improving personal and professional relationships
• Overcoming depression & anxiety;
• Managing life transitions;
• Dealing with the effects of trauma, physical and abuse;
• Working with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Every client is an individual and responds better to some forms of therapy than others. Together we will formulate a therapeutic approach that includes some or all of the following:

• Traditional talk therapy;
• Couples therapy;
• Hypnotherapy;
• Mindfulness-based therapies;
• Eye movement desensitization and reduction (EMDR)
• Sand tray therapy;
• Expressive arts therapy;
• Solution-focused brief therapy;
• Group therapy.

More information about Kandy at her company website.

Kandy Hirsch is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Professional Mediator and Life and Business Coach in private practice in Arizona. A Certified Hypnotherapist licensed in both Arizona and Washington, she recently completed an employment contract at Canyon Ranch Resort and Spa in Tucson as a behavioral therapist.

Combining techniques from psychotherapy, coaching and hypnotherapy Ms. Hirsch helps clients achieve results in the areas of performance enhancement; overcoming trauma and obstacles; managing work and life transitions; business and personal relationship management; grief and loss; and habit management and change. As a professional mediator, Kandy volunteers her time with the Office of the Arizona Attorney General mediating disputes involving workplace claims, victim-offender cases and more.

Prior to moving to Tucson Ms. Hirsch maintained a private psychotherapy practice in Olympia WA. While there she also served as a contract therapist for the Monarch Children’s Justice and Advocacy Center and a volunteer for the Thurston County Crisis Clinic, a one-stop referral center for adults and families in crisis.

Ms. Hirsch has enjoyed many business successes in her varied background. As a massage therapist and entrepreneur she secured and managed the contract for massage at Marriott International Corporate Headquarters in Bethesda, MD. Concurrently she opened and managed the “Massage Shoppe,” a seated massage concession in Baltimore Washington International Airport where she oversaw the work of 15 contracted massage practitioners.

Ms. Hirsch holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Florida in Business Administration and a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology from St. Martin’s University in Olympia, WA. She is a coach trained by the College of Executive Coaching; the only post-graduate coach’s training in the United States. She holds certifications as a Sexual Assault Victim’s Counselor and as an Ericsonian Hypnotherapist.