Candi Fritzinger, MSW, LSW
Candi Fritzinger is a Licensed Social Worker (LSW) who earned her Master’s degree in Social Work from Rutgers University. She has experience working across a variety of community-based and clinical settings, where she has supported children, adolescents, and families navigating emotional, behavioral, and environmental challenges. Her background includes crisis response and family-focused work, allowing her to show up for clients with both clinical skill and genuine compassion during some of life’s most difficult moments.
Candi is especially passionate about working with children and adolescents, helping them feel understood, supported, and empowered as they navigate challenges both big and small. She has experience providing intensive, trauma-informed care and working closely with families to strengthen relationships, improve communication, and build a greater sense of stability at home.
Clinical Specialties
Candi supports clients who are navigating:
- Grief and loss, helping individuals process emotions and adjust to life after loss
- Trauma, with a focus on creating safety and fostering healing
- Chronic illness and autoimmune conditions, addressing both emotional and physical impacts
- Emotional regulation challenges, building tools for managing overwhelming feelings
- Substance use disorders (SUD), supporting clients with insight, coping strategies, and change
Therapeutic Approach
Candi’s approach is warm, collaborative, and client-centered. She believes that each person is the expert of their own experience and works to create a safe, non-judgmental space where clients feel truly seen and heard.
Her work is rooted in a strengths-based and holistic perspective, supporting the connection between mind and body. She incorporates nervous system regulation techniques and whole-person care to help clients feel more grounded, balanced, and in control of their emotions.
Candi is known for her calm, supportive presence and her ability to connect—especially with children and teens—through engaging, developmentally appropriate, and sometimes playful interventions that make the therapeutic process feel more approachable and less intimidating.
Unique Perspective
Candi brings a deeply empathetic and personal understanding to her work, shaped by her own experiences with chronic illness and grief. This perspective allows her to connect with clients on a more meaningful level and approach care in a way that honors the full person—mind and body.
She is passionate about helping clients feel validated in their experiences while guiding them toward healing, growth, and a stronger sense of self.