Healing Minds.
Empowering
Communities.
Meet Kadia Warren-McMullen — Founder & Owner of Metis Counseling Group, PLLC, autism advocate, transformative speaker, and host of WTF: Special Edition. A clinician who built her own practice, started a movement, and shows up for her community every single day.
Where Clinical Excellence Meets Community Heart
Kadia Warren-McMullen is the Founder & Owner of Metis Counseling Group, PLLC — a thriving mental health practice in North Carolina offering individual, family, couples, and child therapy across a wide spectrum of specialties. With five prestigious credentials and years of hands-on clinical leadership, Kadia built Metis from the ground up with one goal: to deliver world-class mental health care to every person who walks through the door.
Beyond running her practice, Kadia is a passionate autism advocate, certified clinical supervisor, and sought-after speaker. As a mother who understands firsthand the challenges of parenting a child with special needs, her advocacy is rooted in lived experience — not just clinical theory. She specializes in anxiety, depression, addictions, and neurodevelopmental conditions, and brings that expertise to every engagement.
She is also the host of WTF: Special Edition (Where's the Framework?) — a groundbreaking podcast where three mothers parenting children with different diagnoses speak with radical honesty about the journey. Whether she's leading her practice, on a stage, or behind a mic, Kadia's mission is unwavering: make healing accessible to everyone.
Metis Counseling
Group, PLLC
"We care for your mental health so you can confidently take charge of your life."
Kadia founded Metis Counseling Group, PLLC on the belief that quality mental health care should be accessible, affirming, and rooted in real clinical excellence. What started as a vision is now a thriving private practice in North Carolina, serving individuals, couples, families, and children across a broad spectrum of mental health and behavioral needs.
As Founder and Owner, Kadia sets the clinical culture at Metis — one defined by compassion, competence, and an unwavering commitment to meeting clients where they are. The practice reflects everything she believes: that healing is possible, that the therapeutic relationship matters, and that every person deserves a provider who truly sees them.
Metis is also deeply community-oriented, offering services that span ADHD, autism, anxiety, depression, substance use, trauma, family therapy, and more — including specialized DWI counseling and medication management.
Metis Counseling Group
Why Clients & Communities
Choose Kadia
A rare combination of clinical mastery, community dedication, and authentic engagement.
Multi-Credentialed Expert
Five nationally recognized credentials spanning mental health, addictions counseling, clinical supervision, and rehabilitation — ensuring the highest standard of care in every engagement.
Dynamic, Transformative Speaker
Kadia's presentations don't just inform — they ignite. She moves audiences from awareness to action, blending personal storytelling with clinical insight and practical tools for change.
Community-Rooted Advocacy
Deeply invested in underserved communities, Kadia brings mental health resources, workshops, and outreach directly to those who need them most — making healing a community-wide effort.
Culturally Responsive Care
Every person deserves to feel seen and understood. Kadia's tailored, affirming approaches honor the whole person — their background, identity, and unique lived experience.
Certified Clinical Supervisor
As a licensed supervisor, Kadia invests in growing the next generation of mental health professionals — multiplying her impact far beyond individual client care.
Holistic Wellness Vision
True wellness goes beyond the therapy room. Kadia champions a whole-person approach — addressing mental, emotional, and social wellbeing for lasting, meaningful transformation.
A Voice That Moves
People to Heal
Kadia is available for keynotes, panel discussions, workshops, conferences, and community events. Her presentations are research-grounded, culturally informed, and delivered with a passion that leaves lasting impressions.
Breaking the Stigma: Mental Health in Our Communities
An honest, empowering conversation about dismantling the cultural barriers that keep communities from seeking help.
Anxiety & Depression: Understanding the Silent Struggle
Education, empathy, and actionable tools for recognizing and addressing anxiety and depression in everyday life.
Building Resilience: Tools for Everyday Wellness
Practical, evidence-based strategies to strengthen mental fortitude and cultivate lasting resilience.
Creating Safe Spaces: Trauma-Informed Leadership
For leaders, educators, and organizations — how to build environments where people feel safe, valued, and empowered.
The Healing Power of Community
Exploring how collective healing, peer support, and communal well-being can transform individual lives.
Comprehensive Offerings
for Every Need
From clinical services to community outreach, Kadia brings expertise and heart to every engagement.
Speaking Engagements
Keynotes, panels, and workshops for conferences, corporations, schools, and communities — delivered with passion and precision.
Book Now →Clinical Services at Metis
Through Metis Counseling Group, PLLC — individual, couples, family, and child therapy across anxiety, depression, trauma, substance use, ADHD, autism, and more.
Visit Metis →Clinical Supervision
Certified supervision for licensed counselors in training — mentoring the next generation of compassionate mental health professionals.
Inquire →Community Workshops
Accessible, impactful mental health workshops designed for community organizations, schools, and nonprofits.
Schedule a Workshop →Organizational Consultancy
Strategic consulting for organizations seeking to implement trauma-informed practices, staff wellness programs, and DEI mental health initiatives.
Start a Conversation →WTF: Special Edition Podcast
Kadia is host of Where's the Framework? Special Edition — a raw, honest podcast for parents raising children with different diagnoses. New episodes streaming now.
Listen Now →Healing Isn't
a Luxury — It's a
Community Right.
At the heart of Kadia's work is an unshakeable belief: mental wellness should be available to every person, in every community, regardless of their circumstances. That's why Kadia dedicates a significant part of her practice to outreach, free programming, and community partnerships that bring care directly to those who need it most.
Through workshops, community forums, school programs, and local partnerships, Kadia is building a movement — one where healing is communal, stigma is dismantled, and every person has access to the tools they need to thrive.
School & Youth Outreach
Bringing mental health education and support directly into schools — equipping young people with tools to recognize and manage anxiety, stress, and emotional challenges.
Free Community Workshops
Low- or no-cost workshops for underserved communities — covering mental health literacy, coping strategies, and where to find support.
Autism Advocacy & Special Needs Support
As an autism advocate and special needs parent herself, Kadia fights for inclusive systems, better resources, and dignity for every family navigating a diagnosis.
Stigma Reduction Campaigns
Community awareness campaigns designed to normalize mental health conversations and make seeking help a sign of strength, not weakness.
Introducing
WTF: Special Edition
Where's the Framework? Special Edition
A gritty, honest, and radically supportive space where three mothers raising children with different diagnoses dismantle myths, tackle systemic gaps, and hold space for joy, rage, and real talk.
Kadia hosts alongside co-hosts Corine Bailey and Nakel "Ms. Kel" Mayes — three women who know what it actually means to parent a child with special needs, and who refuse to do it in silence. Each episode unpacks the challenges and triumphs of this journey with unfiltered honesty, humor, and heart.
Whether you're a parent, educator, therapist, or ally — you'll walk away with insight, connection, and maybe a few tears (the good kind).
Autism & Special Needs Advocacy
Championing inclusion, access, and dignity for every child and family navigating a diagnosis.
Advocacy Born
from Lived Experience
Kadia's passion for autism advocacy isn't just professional — it's deeply personal. As the parent of a child with special needs, she has lived the late-night research sessions, the IEP battles, the moments of overwhelming love and overwhelming frustration that only other special needs parents truly understand.
That lived experience shapes everything she does — from her clinical work to her speaking engagements to WTF: Special Edition. Kadia is committed to building systems that actually work for families, dismantling the barriers that keep children from thriving, and amplifying the voices of parents who are too often unheard.
Educational Advocacy
IEP support, school rights, and navigating special education systems with confidence.
Neurodiversity Affirmation
Celebrating difference, not pathologizing it — every brain deserves dignity.
Family Mental Health
Supporting the wellbeing of the whole family — parents need care too.
Community Awareness
Reducing stigma around autism and other diagnoses through education and honest conversation.
Words from Those
Who've Experienced the Impact
Kadia's keynote at our annual conference was nothing short of transformative. She didn't just present — she created a space where every person in the room felt seen. Our staff left with real tools they actually use.
As one of Kadia's supervisees, I can say without hesitation that she has shaped the counselor I am today. Her mentorship goes beyond clinical skills — she models what it means to lead with compassion and integrity.
We brought Kadia to our community center for a mental health workshop and the turnout was phenomenal — because the community trusted her. She speaks their language and carries their experience with her every step.
Let's Create
Something Meaningful
Together
Whether you're looking to book Kadia for your next event, explore a clinical or consulting partnership, or bring community programming to your area — the conversation starts here.