About Me

Nakita Noël Mitchell, MSW, LCSW, OSW-C

Areas of Practice

Professional Experience

I have dedicated my training and career to supporting individuals, partners, and families as they navigate the complex intersections between mental/emotional health, physical health/illness, and significant life transitions. I have worked in a variety of settings: hospital-based palliative medicine, community-based hospice, outpatient mental health in primary medicine, as well as adult and pediatric outpatient oncology.

I have had the privilege to walk alongside individuals as they face a terminal diagnosis; to counsel couples as they balance demands of work, parenthood, and caring for elder parents; to guide patients processing loss in relationships and livelihood due to chronic illness; and to support and empower clients whose life experiences of social marginalization have led to depression and anxiety.

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.

  • 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

  • Depression

  • Stress and Anxiety

  • Relationship Issues, Separation/Divorce

  • Family Conflict

  • Adjustment to Life Transitions

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

  • Medical and Mental Health Clinician Burnout or Vicarious Trauma

Education and Certification

North Carolina Clinical Social Work (LCSW) License #: C011197

Certified Oncology Social Worker (OSW-C) BOSWC#: 1700

Master of Social Work Degree: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2013

Bachelor of Arts Degree (Women’s and Gender Studies; Sociology): Vanderbilt University, 2010

  • “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