Candice Knight, PhD, EdD, APN, PMHNP-BC

Dr. Knight is a licensed clinical psychologist and psychiatric nurse practitioner and has been in private practice in Flemington, NJ, since 1982.  She has master’s degree in both clinical psychology and psychiatric nursing and doctoral degrees in both clinical psychology and foundations of education (history, sociology, and philosophy). She conducts psychiatric and psychological evaluations, prescribes psychiatric medication, and provides psychotherapy for children, adolescents, adults, and older adults. Dr. Knight is a certified Gestalt therapist who practices from a humanistic-existential framework. Whether providing psychotherapy or prescribing medications, she believes in the primacy of the therapeutic relationship and understanding her clients from an in-depth perspective. She has also received advanced training in Client-Centered Therapy, Existential Therapy,  Emotion-Focused Therapy, Re-decision Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR), Expressive Arts Therapy (music, art, and movement), Structural Family Therapy, and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and integrates aspects of these approaches into her work.  Dr. Knight has special interests in trauma and stressor related disorders, anxiety disorders, and somatic disorders and enjoys working with clients across the lifespan.