Dr. Amanda Malixi, EdD, LPC-S

Dr. Malixi is a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor with a doctorate in educational leadership from Saint Louis University. Her clinical background spans acute inpatient care, adolescent and young adult counseling, crisis intervention, substance use support, Catholic educational leadership, performance psychology, and integrative nutritional wellness.

Dr. Malixi founded Gravitas Excelsa Center after nearly a decade directing a nationally recognized counseling program at an all-boys Catholic high school in Houston — where she watched, year after year, as gifted young people arrived carrying more than those around them knew, and far more than most systems were built to hold. Something had to be built differently. Out of that conviction grew the Resilient Minds Model — the clinical framework at the center of everything GEC does.

Her formation as a clinician did not happen only in classrooms. It took shape in hospital corridors and mission fields — nationally and internationally, in Haiti, Costa Rica, and beyond — in retreat settings and in thousands of quiet, unhurried conversations where the real questions were finally given room. Each of those places left something in her. That something lives in the way she works.

Nutrition became a clinical priority not as a trend, but as a conviction earned through observation. In acute care settings, she watched patients improve or plateau in ways that could not be explained by therapy alone. The connection between what people ate, how they slept, how their nervous systems were regulated — and how available they were to heal — was undeniable. Integrating nutritional science and gut-brain health into clinical practice was not an addition to the work. It was a completion of it.

She has learned — sometimes the hard way — that the best work happens when you let go of control and stay close to what matters. She is a wife, a mother of four, a lover of music and the sea, and someone who has never been entirely able to sit still. She believes God places exactly the right people in our lives at exactly the right moment, that every person carries a call worth taking seriously, and that formation — in a person, in a practice — is never really finished.