Nakita Mitchell, Nakita C Noel Mitchell

I’m a fully-licensed therapist (LCSW) with 12+ years of clinical experience serving adults— individuals and couples (partners, triads, polycules, etc; monogamous or CNM). The therapy space I create alongside my clients is one that prioritizes safety, where stories can be shared, feelings can be processed without judgment, and all parts of clients' selves are worthy and welcome.

As a Black Queer therapist, I enjoy serving clients with diverse backgrounds. I practice therapy through a trauma-informed, decolonizing, healing justice lens. I affirm and celebrate racial/ethnic diversity; queer, trans, and gender nonconforming identities; visible and invisible disability; body diversity, and neurodiversity. I am a humanistic provider and I utilize IFS, ACT, EFT, and narrative therapeutic modalities in my practice. I believe strongly in my clients' inherent worth and capacity for growth and healing.

My expertise is in helping folks navigate: life transitions; relationship and family conflict; parenting and caregiver stress; values clarification; self-esteem injury; anxiety; depression; helping profession burnout (physicians and other medical providers, nurses, social workers, and psychologists, including students of the aforementioned professions); cancer and other serious or chronic illness (patient, parent of pediatric patient, or loved one/caregiver); and bereavement and complex grief. I hold my oncology certification (OSW-C) from the Board of Oncology Social Work and have extensive experience providing mental health services in healthcare settings.

Accessibility to affordable therapy— particularly for queer folx and communities of color— has always been, and will always be, of great importance to me. As such, I exclusively use a sliding scale/mutual aid model for payment. This model is a collective care pricing system where costs for goods or services— like therapy— are adjusted based on an individual's income and financial ability. This fee model gives greater access and affordability to those who are uninsured, underinsured, or who might otherwise not be able to afford therapy. Please know that this form private pay does not mean high cost, but instead is my commitment as a therapist to Healing Justice.

I am licensed in the states of NC and TN. I see clients in-person at my office in Durham, NC and offer sessions virtually for anyone living within the states of North Carolina and Tennessee.