About Me

Nakita Noël Mitchell, MSW, LCSW, OSW-C

Areas of Practice:

  • Depression

  • Stress and Anxiety

  • Relationship Issues, Separation/Divorce

  • Family Conflict

  • Adjustment to Life Transitions

  • Stressors Related to Socially Marginalized Identity (e.g. BIPOC, LGBTQIA+)

  • Adjustment to Diagnosis of Cancer or Other Chronic, Life-Limiting Illness

  • Health Anxiety and Medical Trauma

  • Caregiver Stress and Support

  • Anticipatory Grief and End-of-Life Issues

  • Coping with Grief and Loss

  • Medical and Mental Health Clinician Burnout or Vicarious Trauma

Professional Experience

I completed my undergraduate education (BA) at Vanderbilt University in 2010, double-majoring in Women’s and Gender Studies and Sociology. I went on to attain my Master’s degree in Social Work (MSW) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—GO HEELS!— in 2013. I am fully clinically-licensed in the state of North Carolina (LCSW) and I am a Board-Certified Oncology Social Worker (OSW-C)

I’ve spent the bulk of my professional career supporting individuals and their families in health care settings: hospital-based palliative medicine, community-based hospice, integrated mental health care in outpatient primary medicine, and adult outpatient oncology. My passion is providing support in the areas where mental health and physical health collide, because more often than not, they do. I’ve worked with individuals as they face a terminal diagnosis; with patients who have experienced losses in their relationships and livelihood due to a chronic condition; with couples as they navigate role shifts and parenting in the midst of active oncology treatment; with clients whose life experience of social marginalization have led to depression; and with those who present to their primary care doctor for stomach pain and heart palpitations, only to learn that anxiety is the root cause.

Whether you seek relief, understanding, strength, healing, confidence, or clarity, psychotherapy can be an integral part in the great work of discovering who you are and what you are capable of achieving.

  • “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”

    Maya Angelou

  • “When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

    Audre Lorde

  • “I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”

    Angela Davis

  • “There is always light. Only if we are brave enough to see it. There is always light. Only if we are brave enough to be it.”

    Amanda Gorman