Kaniecia Mixon , LMFT

Kaniecia Mixon is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 15 years of experience offering behavioral support and psychotherapy to individuals, children, adolescents, and families. She brings extensive experience working with depression, anxiety, relationship and family challenges, parenting concerns, trauma from physical, sexual, or emotional abuse, ADHD, grief, and a range of other life stressors. Her clinical background includes direct therapeutic work with young people ages 5-19 and supervisory oversight of clinical staff providing services for clients up to age 21. She has also worked as a Therapeutic Behavioral Services clinician supporting case management and coaching parents in practical strategies to manage child behavior.

Kaniecia’s approach is warm, authentic, and collaborative. She practices from a trauma-informed, strengths-based orientation and draws on client-centered care, cognitive-behavioral techniques, motivational interviewing, mindfulness practices, and other evidence-informed methods to tailor treatment to each person’s needs. She emphasizes creating safety, developing healthy coping skills, strengthening natural supports, and setting achievable goals while offering accountability and encouragement. Creativity and play are often integrated into sessions when helpful to promote engagement and insight.

Kaniecia aims to meet clients where they are without stigmatizing labels and to walk alongside them as they pursue greater wellbeing, resilience, and more fulfilling relationships. As a clinician and program supervisor, she combines practical intervention skills with compassion and focus on real-world functioning.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Kaniecia uses client-centered therapy to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the client’s perspective guides the work. This approach emphasizes empathy, collaboration, and helping people identify their own goals and strengths, which can be especially helpful for relationship concerns, parenting challenges, and self-esteem issues.

She also employs cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help clients recognize and shift unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors. CBT is practical and goal-oriented, and it is often used for depression, anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes.

Mindfulness practices are integrated into sessions to build awareness and present-moment coping skills. These simple techniques support emotional regulation and can complement other therapeutic strategies for trauma, anger, or chronic stress.

Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. Kaniecia works with each client to determine which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adapting the plan as progress unfolds and new concerns arise.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to engage - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into daily life and maintain continuity of care. These options support ongoing access to licensed professionals and therapists, help reduce travel time, and allow people to receive support from familiar surroundings while working toward meaningful change.