About Kaniecia
Kaniecia Mixon uses a warm, collaborative approach that centers the person seeking help. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 15 years of experience. She talks plainly and works alongside people to set realistic goals and develop useful skills.
Kaniecia helps with depression, anxiety, stress, and self-esteem struggles. She supports people coping with trauma and abuse and assists those facing parenting challenges. She also addresses relationship concerns, grief, eating and body image issues, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
How Kaniecia works
Her clinical practice draws on client-centered methods and evidence-based tools like cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. She uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing when helpful and blends approaches to match each person's needs. Sessions often focus on building coping skills, improving communication, and increasing emotional awareness.
Kaniecia has worked extensively with people in crisis stabilization and has experience teaching parenting strategies and behavior support. She has provided services across childhood and young adult age ranges in prior roles, and currently supervises clinical staff who deliver similar supports. People meet her approach with practical steps, simple skill building, and an emphasis on strengths.
She invites creativity in sessions and sometimes brings art or play into therapy. Her style is respectful and nonjudgmental, aimed at helping people make steady progress toward their goals.
Kaniecia lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Kaniecia works with
The areas below are the ones Kaniecia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and supporting people where they are. The therapist reflects concerns, helps set goals, and follows the person's lead to build trust and clarity; this approach fits well with video and phone sessions where conversation is central.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical skills for changing unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors, which works well through structured video or messaging sessions where homework and skill practice can be assigned.
Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. It offers concrete tools for handling intense emotions and relationship conflicts, and these skills can be practiced and reviewed during live calls or brief chat check-ins.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their concerns, goals, and preferences and then suggest methods to try. Plans can be adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy provides flexibility for different lifestyles. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat works for short check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection or brief updates. These options make it easier to fit sessions into work or family schedules and to keep momentum between appointments.
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