Candace Good MD

About

Candace Good, MD, is a psychiatrist, author, business owner, and advocate. She founded Sig: Wellness, LLC, in 2018 to make breathing, meditation, and the conscious movement of yoga more accessible to the people who can benefit from it the most, people like her with anxiety and other stress-related conditions.

Dr. Good has extensive experience in child and adolescent, college, and inpatient mental health. She received her medical degree in 1999 from the Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, PA, where she maintains a clinical faculty appointment.

Dr. Good serves as a board member for the Pennsylvania Medical Society and is a distinguished fellow of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

She is the author of Own Your Present: A Psychiatrist's Guide to Mindful Meditation and Living a More Conscious Lifestyle.

Recent Posts

Why Self-Care Is Not Enough to Beat Burnout

Sick of feeling like if you just took better care of yourself that everything would be doable? Burnout is not your fault, but there are ways to manage it to live a happier life.

How to Beat the Sunday Scaries

Don't let the Sunday scaries ruin your weekend. Take charge of your anxiety (and productivity) by scheduling intentional breaks and self-care.

Is Anxiety Causing You to Overwork?

Do you feel on edge from working too hard but have difficulty turning it off? A psychiatrist explains the brain's response to complex trauma.

Managing Delta Variant Anxiety at Work

The Delta variant is adding anxiety to feelings of loss as employees navigate work environments that are constantly changing.

Concentration Problems: Distinguishing Between Anxiety and ADHD

The pandemic has highlighted the overlap between anxiety and ADHD. Here's how to tell the two conditions apart.

COVID-19 Frontline Guilt: How to Cope as Reality Sets In

Helping healthcare professionals recognize and cope with frontline guilt is an important part of COVID-19 pandemic recovery.

Managing High-Functioning Anxiety in the Workplace

High-achievers feel guilty about taking the very breaks that could help them work better.

6 Tips for Professionals with High-Functioning Anxiety

By practicing these mindfulness concepts, high achievers can find greater contentment in work and life.

Why Healthcare Workers Need More Than the COVID Vaccine

As healthcare celebrates the vaccine, its culture may interfere with frontline workers getting the mental health treatment they deserve.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Research Update

Staying home and washing our hands more are recommended during COVID-19, but can make it difficult to diagnose OCD. Three recent studies outline current and future treatments.