About Keniesha
Keniesha Francis is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Florida with 17 years of experience. She focuses on practical, down-to-earth support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, anger, relationship strain, family conflict, trauma, and ADHD-related challenges. Keniesha talks with clients in a straightforward, compassionate way and treats each person as the expert on their own life.
She works from a holistic perspective that can include spiritual resources when a client wants that.
Background and approach
Sessions often use simple techniques and clear steps to help people feel steadier and move forward. Keniesha aims to build a trusting and nonjudgmental rapport so clients can try new strategies without feeling judged. Her approach blends skill-building and storytelling methods to address current problems and longer patterns.
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to change unhelpful thinking and on Solution-Focused and Motivational Interviewing ideas to set practical goals. Keniesha also uses narrative techniques to help people make sense of difficult experiences. People seek her help for a wide range of concerns including parenting stress, intimacy issues, grief, impulsivity, communication problems, and life purpose questions.
She is comfortable addressing family of origin issues, blended family challenges, and the emotional fallout of separation or divorce. Keniesha keeps sessions focused and flexible so work fits into a busy life. She encourages small, manageable steps and checks progress along the way.
Her style is warm, creative, and rooted in real-life solutions.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Keniesha uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and problems with impulsivity because it breaks concerns into clear patterns and steps you can practice between sessions.She also uses the Gottman Method to address relationship communication and conflict. That approach focuses on concrete communication skills and small, manageable changes couples can try to improve understanding and connection. Motivational Interviewing is another tool she uses to support people who feel stuck or ambivalent about change; it helps clients identify their own reasons for change and set realistic goals.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Keniesha works collaboratively to match methods to a client's goals, needs, and comfort level. She often mixes techniques and checks in regularly to see what is helping and what should shift.
Online therapy offers flexible options such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face work and skill practice, phone calls can fit into a short break, and chat or messaging can work for brief check-ins or when writing helps processing. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep progress moving between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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