About Kenyatta
Kenyatta Dent uses a practical, person-centered approach to help people move past emotional struggles. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Mississippi who focuses on clear goal setting and finding workable solutions. Her style is warm and straightforward, with attention to what each person needs in the moment.
She blends Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing. That mix lets her listen closely, help people spot unhelpful thinking, and build motivation for change.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on small, concrete steps that add up over time. Kenyatta has three years as an LPC and more than a decade of experience in the mental health field overall. Her background includes school-based work with children who had behavior challenges and diagnoses such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and oppositional defiant behaviors.
She also has experience providing individual and group counseling in a correctional setting, working with men who had substance use concerns. In that setting she led anger management groups and taught basic cognitive skills aimed at improving coping and decision making. Kenyatta holds a Master of Science in Rehabilitation Counseling and a Master’s in Counseling/Psychology.
She emphasizes empathy, genuineness, and unconditional positive regard while helping people reduce anxiety, manage stress, address depression, and work on self-esteem and addiction-related issues.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and acceptance. The therapist offers a space where people feel heard and respected, which helps when someone is struggling with anxiety, depression, or low self-esteem.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on how thoughts affect feelings and behavior. In online sessions this approach helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and practice new coping skills between meetings.
Motivational Interviewing supports changes by strengthening a person’s own reasons for change. It is useful for addressing addictions and building commitment to goals rather than forcing a plan.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has worked in the past. Together they will try methods that fit the person’s needs and adjust over time based on progress.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are options for brief updates, coaching between sessions, or when writing feels easier than talking. These formats make it easier to fit care into a busy life while keeping focus on the same therapeutic work used in traditional sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Self esteem
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English