Nia Nanton, LCSW

Nia Nanton is a Licensed Social Worker and a 200-Hour Registered Yoga Teacher with 10 years of combined experience in mental & behavioral health (inpatient & outpatient), primary & higher education, foster & adoptive settings working with individuals from childhood through adulthood. She has transferable skills to support individuals across a wide range of settings in her work with youth & families, as well as groups and communities. She provides a variety of services, including case management, behavioral, clinical, and social work assessments; social work and psychotherapeutic counseling, planning and program development, post-secondary advising, community organization, and person-centered advocacy.

Nia is a dedicated and continuously evolving mental health professional with a passion for various therapeutic modalities and a commitment to ongoing learning and growth. She also holds certifications in the Nurtured Heart Approach, and she is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-200). Additionally, Nia is currently finalizing her certification in TF-CBT. Her work is guided by a diverse range of therapeutic approaches, with a particular focus on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Mindfulness-Based Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and Attachment-Based Therapy. These modalities empower her to help individuals address and manage their thought patterns and behaviors effectively, promote self-awareness and emotional regulation, create healthier, more secure emotional bonds, and address the impact of early relationships on one’s psychological well-being.

She is constantly striving to identify and address the biological, psychological, social, and spiritual influences that impact individual well-being holistically, whilst educating, empowering, and encouraging alignment in individuals. She has a strong passion for working with teens, young adults, and families engaging in attachment-based, strengths-based, mind-body, mindfulness, solution-focused, trauma-informed care. Nia is looking to build on and incorporate her niches and passions for horticulture, music, spirituality, and mind-body principles into her practice as a holistic and integrative social worker and therapist. She values living a present, purposeful, and abundant life; for myself and others. Additionally, she is looking to elevate her work with the perinatal population as this is such a special population and life experience near and dear to her heart as a mother herself. Nia is a firm believer in starting where you are, with what you have, surrendering negative emotions and thoughts residing in the body and equating to disease, thus tending to mind-body work and healing and operating from abundance, rather than lack thereof.

Her “favorite” client would be one who is willing to seek the support and guidance of mental health therapeutic services, willing to apply their learned skills, willing to start wherever they are, with whatever they have - and willing to advocate for their needs, wants and dislikes.