Kianta English

Kianta received her Masters in Counseling with a concentration in mental health from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Kianta has always had a strong passion for understanding and helping those struggling with mental health conditions. Kianta is passionate about helping her clients empower themselves, to stand in their truth, while building a life worth living. Kianta has extensive clinical experience working with adolescents and adults struggling with eating disorders, depression, anxiety, trauma, and substance use/abuse. Before her transition to eating disorder treatment, she worked in a community mental health setting serving individuals with severe and persistent mental health concerns, individuals and families who are homeless, Veterans, and youth. Her eating disorder treatment experience started in 2018 and spans across numerous settings which include inpatient (hospitalization), residential, and partial hospitalization. Kianta provides a safe space for her clients to open up, to feel heard, and to be supported. Some therapeutic modalities that she is trained in are cognitive processing therapy (CPT) and the Flash Technique (FT). She utilizes these trauma-informed modalities to help her clients understand, challenge, and modify their unhelpful beliefs related to the trauma. Kianta is a realist. That is one of the things she loves about therapy. She loves helping her clients accept a situation as it is and learn to deal with it accordingly. She strives to help her clients find a path of healing, enlightenment, and empowerment to love themselves beyond their current challenges, and to accept themselves as they are in their challenges. In polyvagal theory, we teach a concept called glimmers. Glimmers are the opposite of triggers. Glimmers are anything and everything that you see, smell, touch, hear, taste or do that cue safety, connection, peace, and calmness. Actively noticing glimmers, or participating in activities and practices that bring you calmness and joy, can reduce emotional triggers. Outside of the therapy office, Kianta loves running, mindfulness practices, breath work, and photography. When partaking in these activities, Kianta is present, at peace, grounded, and connected to herself, others, and the world around her. Kianta helps her clients find their own glimmers, their own hobbies, activities, and moments, that bring them a sense of peacefulness, safety, and connection in all of life’s messiness.