About Amanda
Amanda Burns is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 15 years of clinical work in Tennessee. She began her career after graduate study and supervised clinical work in Nashville and has since focused on outpatient and residential care. Amanda works with adults and adolescents on common life stresses and mood concerns.
Amanda spent early years supporting school-based programs and community health clinics. That work included individual and group sessions and helping teachers and caregivers shape behavior plans.
Background and approach
She later moved into outpatient and residential roles before opening a independent practice suite that shares space with psychiatric and counseling colleagues. Her approach is straightforward and problem-focused. She uses talk therapy to help people manage anxiety, depression, grief, and stress.
She also helps people who face trauma, addiction, sleep problems, anger, and attention challenges such as ADHD. Amanda blends several practical methods in sessions. She draws on client-centered conversation to understand priorities.
She pairs that with cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness strategies to teach skills people can use at home. Sessions aim to help clients build coping skills for everyday life. Parents receive guidance for behavior challenges and caregiver stress.
First responders and people with mood or trauma histories can work on concrete tools for managing symptoms and improving daily routines. Her style is calm and direct, with an emphasis on clear goals and small, measurable steps. Amanda speaks English and provides services across video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for remote work.
Therapeutic approaches for online care and coping skills
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person and their priorities. The therapist listens deeply, reflects what she hears, and helps clients choose goals that matter to them. This approach is useful for people who want support in sorting values, relationships, and parenting choices.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Amanda uses CBT to help people spot unhelpful thinking, try new actions, and practice small experiments that change daily life. It is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and sleep problems.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, contributes practical skills for managing intense emotion and improving communication. Skills in DBT include emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and mindful awareness, which can be helpful for anger, mood instability, and stress.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try strategies together, and adjust plans based on what works. Clients and the therapist decide which methods to prioritize over time.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to work together. Video calls let people see nonverbal cues and do longer sessions. Phone sessions are useful when video bandwidth is limited or for brief check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging allow short, timely support between calls or for progress updates. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and maintain continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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