Hi there, I’m Nakita. I’m a fully-licensed, Black/BIPOC, Queer (lesbian), therapist (LCSW) with 12+ years of clinical experience serving adults in North Carolina and Tennessee.

While I welcome clients from all backgrounds, my expertise is in serving clients who have lived experience of social marginalization. I practice therapy through a trauma-informed, decolonizing, healing justice lens. My clients typically identify with one or more of the following: Black/BIPOC, POC, multiracial, or other racial/ethnic minority; Queer/LGBTQIA+/ gender nonconforming; Disabled (visible or invisible); Neurodivergent; Older Adults; Seriously Ill (cancer, life-limiting illness). I also specialize in serving couples (partners) of all kinds, including those with nontraditional relationship structures (Non-monogamous/ENM/CNM, etc).

I utilize IFS, ACT, EFT, EFCT and narrative therapeutic modalities in my practice. My expertise is in helping folks navigate: life transitions; relationship and family conflict; parenting and caregiver stress; values clarification; self-esteem injury; chronic anxiety or depression; helping profession burnout (medical providers, nurses, social workers, and psychologists, including students professionals); cancer and other serious or chronic illness (patients, caregivers); and grief after loss.

Accessibility to affordable therapy— particularly for marginalized folx— 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.