About Keniesha
Keniesha Francis is a licensed mental health counselor with 17 years of experience. She focuses on practical, down-to-earth help for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship or family difficulties. Clients come with many kinds of concerns, and she meets each person where they are.
She listens for strengths in a person’s story and builds on those assets. Her style is compassionate and nonjudgmental to create a working rapport quickly.
Background and approach
Her approach blends evidence-based techniques with a broader view of the person. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help change unhelpful thinking and patterns. She also draws on narrative and solution-focused ideas to reframe problems and set clear, achievable steps.
Keniesha includes spiritual resources when clients want that included and adapts tools to fit each person’s life. She describes herself as creative and willing to try different techniques until something works. Sessions are aimed at helping people move forward with practical steps and clearer goals.
People often seek her help for parenting stress, grief, anger, intimacy concerns, ADHD-related issues, and coping with life changes. She works with trauma and abuse histories while emphasizing safety and steady pacing in treatment. Keniesha encourages the small steps that lead to lasting change.
Approach-focused care through online sessions
Keniesha commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and the Gottman Method to address common relationship and anxiety concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that keep stress and anxiety going, and it is often used for depression and anger as well. The Gottman Method focuses on improving communication and managing conflict in close relationships by teaching concrete interaction skills.She also uses Motivational Interviewing to help people find their own reasons for change and to build commitment to goals. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process - the therapist will listen to your goals and preferences, try techniques, and adjust based on what helps most. Together the client and therapist decide which methods to emphasize over time.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles. Video calls are useful for in-depth work and seeing facial cues, phone sessions can be a quick option when bandwidth is low, and live chat or messaging work well for brief check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to get consistent help while balancing work, family, and other responsibilities.
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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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