Amanda Burns, LPC

Amanda Burns is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 15 years of clinical work. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief, mood shifts, or traumatic experiences. Amanda speaks plainly and aims to make sessions feel practical and understandable for parents and adults.

Amanda earned graduate degrees from Tennessee Technological University and completed supervised clinical work in Nashville. Early in her career she worked with school-based special education programs and outpatient clinics, supporting behavior planning and therapy for young people and their caregivers. She later provided outpatient services to adolescents and adults in community health settings.

After relocating, Amanda broadened her practice to include residential treatment and outpatient care for adolescents and adults. For the last eight years she has operated her own private practice as a sole proprietor alongside other mental health professionals. Her background includes work in trauma, sexual and physical abuse, PTSD, grief and loss, and crisis intervention.

Amanda uses a range of approaches in sessions, including cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, dialectical behavior elements, emotionally focused work, and client-centered methods. She helps people learn practical skills for managing panic, anger, obsessions, sleep problems, and caregiver strain. Sessions often mix skill practice with chances to talk through feelings and patterns.

Clients commonly come for help with depression, addictions, parenting stress, relationship and family difficulties, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Amanda offers straightforward tools and collaborative planning to help people manage symptoms and make step-by-step changes.

How Amanda blends evidence-based approaches online

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and helping people set their own goals. Sessions emphasize empathy, reflection, and supporting the client's perspective to build motivation and clearer thinking.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, panic, depression, sleep problems, obsessions, and mood challenges by working on patterns and practicing new responses.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) supplies emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal tools. Those skills can help with anger, intense reactions, relationship stress, and managing strong emotions in the moment.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try techniques in session, and adjust methods so they fit each person's needs and pace.

Online formats offer flexibility to fit therapy into busy days. Video calls allow face-to-face work and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can support brief updates, reminders, or step-by-step coaching between sessions. Together these options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while adapting to a client's schedule and communication style.