About Keniesha
Keniehsa Francis is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with 17 years of experience. She focuses on practical, straightforward support for people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and trauma. Keniesha uses clear, down-to-earth language so parents and individuals can feel understood right away.
She believes clients know their own stories and brings a collaborative style to each session. That means she listens first, then suggests steps you can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Her approach draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused methods to help change unhelpful patterns and set small, doable goals. Kenyiesha also uses narrative techniques to help people make sense of painful events. When relationships are strained she applies tools from the Gottman Method to improve communication and rebuild trust.
Motivational Interviewing helps when clients want support finding and keeping motivation for change. Her work often addresses family dynamics, parenting stress, and issues like abandonment, codependency, and blended-family challenges. She supports people coping with grief, life transitions, impulse control concerns, and attention-related struggles such as ADHD.
Sessions combine practical exercises, reflection, and goal-setting. She says therapy should feel useful and manageable, not overwhelming. Keniesha aims to meet people where they are and help them move forward at their own pace.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Keniehsa uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical exercises and homework. This approach is often used for anxiety, depression, and managing stress.She also draws on the Gottman Method to improve communication and reduce conflict in strained relationships; sessions focus on skills that partners can practice between meetings. Motivational Interviewing is used when someone needs support finding personal motivation to make changes, using guided conversations rather than direct advice.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Then she will recommend methods and adjust them as needed so sessions feel relevant and useful.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone sessions work well when internet bandwidth is limited, live chat allows quick check-ins, and messaging supports brief ongoing coaching and reminders. These formats give flexibility to fit therapy into busy family and work schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- 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