Individual Psychotherapy

We work with clients who seek depth-oriented exploration and skill building. During our therapeutic work, we will delve into ways of your lived experience that may not be supportive and identify skills and narratives that support your liberation. Most of our clients see a gradual lifting of symptoms within the first month and sustained improvement thereafter.

We receive you with allyship and affirmation for Sex-Positivity, LGBTQIA+, BDSM/Kink, Sex Worker, Polyamory/Non-monogamy, and Neurodivergence.

Your healing journey will be encountered with cultural competence, radical acceptance, directness, unconditional positive regard, warmth, and empathy.

In our journey together, we might connect with interventions such as mindfulness, narrative identification, breath work, ritual, values exploration, Socratic dialogue, behavioral experiments, and cognitive restructuring.

SPECIALTIES

Dr. Mixon’s interest and expertise are in creating therapeutic space for individuals in need of support with the following:

Identity	Trauma	Mental / Behavioral / Relational
Black Gender Sexuality Queer Internalized Oppression	Racial Minority Stress Inter-generational Domestic Violence Sexual	Co-Occurring Diagnosis Substance Abuse Problematic Sexual Behavior Neurodivergence (ADHD/ASD) Anger Management Personality Kink/Fetish Non-Monogamy

If you are seeking support in any of these areas, we welcome you to connect with Dr. LeKisha Mixon through a complimentary 30-minute consultation. These lived experiences and Clinical concerns also inform her consultation work with licensed clinicians seeking support with complex client dynamics and treatment planning.

INTEGRATED PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC APPROACH

Dr. Mixon approaches your Individual Psychotherapy journey from a holistic model where you explore your mind-body-and spirit. Spirit is defined as the consciousness that exists within you, it is your intuition, and your power. Dr. Mixon will integrate theory and philosophy from eastern and western ideology. The therapies and philosophies she employs are evidence-based and grounded in wisdom traditions.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT is a type of therapy that identifies your core beliefs and attitudes about yourself, others and the world. CBT supports you in understanding how your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors are connected to form a narrative of your lived experience. This therapy includes challenging your narrative, exploring patterns of thought that may not be serving you, and restructuring your narrative to be more supportive of your wellbeing. This therapy helps you to identify how your thoughts influence your emotional experience and behavioral action. Through CBT you will be able to identify mental health goals and learn evidence based strategies to achieve your goals.

Psychodynamic Therapy

Psychodynamic Therapy is utilized to support your understanding of your unconscious motivations and drives. With Psychodynamic Therapy you will explore your early experiences with your primary caregivers and identify the ways these relationships impacted your development of self. By becoming more aware of your motivations, drives and self concept, you are able to liberate your mind-body-spirit. You can detach from conditioned ways of being that may no longer serve you. With Psychodynamic Therapy you will deepen your understanding of your unconscious to provide you with the awareness of choice in every moment.

Humanistic-Existential Therapy

Humanistic-Existential Therapy is utilized to support you in honoring your humanness and meaning of life. With Humanistic-Existential Therapy you will explore your potential to achieve and maintain a healthy and meaningful wellbeing. We will discover how you relate to fundamental aspects of living such as your identity, being in existence, freedom, responsibility, death, and isolation. In this discovery you will be able to deepen your awareness of your own life’s meaning and become more aligned within it.

Black Psychology

Black Psychology supports your healing journey in identifying your strengths as a Spirit forward person of the African Diaspora. Spirit is the value of interconnectedness and the idea that communal self knowledge is one of the keys to mental health. Through Black Psychology we will explore the role of racism and white supremacy to increase your understanding of self as a Black Indigenous or Person of Color (BIPOC). If you are a Non-BIPOC individual, you may explore anti-racist principles and how these principles relate to your experience as a Non-BIPOC. If you are BIPOC or Non-BIPOC, with Black Psychology you will explore the interconnectedness of spirit, body, culture, and your mental health. You will explore the ways oppressive systems are embedded into our socio-psychological framework and influence your Psychological and Sociological freedom. With Black Psychology you will be offered recommendations into other forms of healing such as music, dance, community engagement, and ritual.

Mindfulness and Meditation

Mindfulness/Meditation is a practice that will be learned to support your healing process. It is a form of mental, spiritual, and emotional training that has been supported in historical tradition and current science. Mindfulness/Meditation will support your healing journey with practical strategies to support increased awareness into your consciousness and your power of choice. Meditation/Mindfulness involves the breath and attunement to the: mind, sensations, feelings, and mental contents. With Meditation/Mindfulness you will develop a practice that can support your in the moment relief and over all wellbeing.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

ACT will support you in becoming the observer of your mind for access to the present moment. ACT requires your commitment to flexible thinking and will allow you to live a value oriented life. In ACT you will gain the skills to minimize avoidance, denial, and challenge with your inner experience. You will explore your capacity to accept your feelings as appropriate responses to life circumstance that do not have to interfere with your life progress and growth. In ACT you will learn to accept your concerns in living, their associated distress, and consciously choose responses that foster relief and wellbeing.

Trauma Informed

Trauma Informed is defined as an understanding of the prevalence of trauma in our society. When trauma occurs, it affects our cognitions, emotions, central nervous system, and behaviors. You are supported in curating a therapeutic space that is grounded in safety, choice, nervous system regulation, trustworthiness, and empowerment. Through a Trauma Informed lense, your healing journey will be encountered with cultural competence, radical acceptance, unconditional positive regard, warmth, and empathy.