Christy Mixson

Life offers so much to be enjoyed and known and shared. I offer a therapeutic relationship that is designed to help you live your life more fully. Whatever your struggle, suffering feels worse without support. Information and skills may help you work within your circumstances. Yet, emotional connections and corrective experiences within therapy often effect the most change! Together, we are likely to find more optimistic outcomes.

As a graduate of Regent University with a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, I am trained to provide professional care for diagnosable symptoms, but my view and approach holds that people are able to be their best self by experiencing their own inner healing and through healthy relationships. My clinical training included serving in a group foster home for teens and working in two group private practices. I have helped improve lives with a wide range of clients, including self-harming adolescents. Helping couples deepen their bond and reduce conflict has been my private practice passion since 2020; I have training across multiple modalities, including EFT, Gottman, IFS, RLT and Brainspotting. Within couples or individual therapy, I regularly help clients process difficult experiences and developmental trauma. Then, they have more capacity for relational and skills-based learning to propel them into seasons of greater internal and external peace and happiness.

I approach therapy with a holistic view of the person or the couple in context. Who you are and your needs and goals are the focus. Together, we get to those markers effectively and as efficiently as possible, which is most impacted by your effort and engagement within and outside of sessions.

Clients most often leave even first sessions with hope, encouragement and understanding that jumpstarts the healing process. I often teach micro-skills and give action points that support client growth between sessions. My aim is to solidify a working relationship from our first hour together. I seek to facilitate experiential change through dynamic trauma-healing which leads to deepened self-awareness. Clients quickly learn how to improve boundary setting and communication skills when needed.