About Michelle
Dr. Michelle Burns is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with twenty years of clinical experience. She practices in South Carolina and focuses on practical help for everyday problems.
She speaks directly and calmly with people who feel stuck or overwhelmed. She works with relationship challenges, family stress, parenting concerns, anger, and low self-esteem. She also helps with anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and issues around intimacy.
ADHD is included among areas she addresses.
Background and approach
Other concerns she addresses include sleep and eating difficulties, career transitions, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue. Her style is straightforward and goal oriented. Sessions are meant to be clear and useful.
She and the client set small, manageable goals and check progress often. People can expect concrete strategies alongside time to talk about feelings. Dr.
Burns draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Solution-Focused Therapy to shape the work. That means practical tools for changing unhelpful thoughts, skills for managing strong emotions, and brief goal-focused steps to move forward. The approach is adapted to each person’s needs.
She invites people to take a first step and complete a short questionnaire to help match with a therapist. Appointments can be scheduled through the service and are offered in several online formats. Dr.
Burns aims to make therapy a usable, down-to-earth resource for the challenges people bring.
Practical approaches you can use online
Dr. Burns often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT breaks problems into small pieces so clients can try specific changes and see what helps. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skills for handling strong emotions and improving relationships, with a focus on balancing acceptance and change. Solution-Focused Therapy looks for small, practical steps and existing strengths to build forward motion quickly.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist and client talk about problems, goals, and preferences, then try methods that fit. That collaborative process means approaches can be adjusted over time based on what is helping.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more practical. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversation. Phone works well when less bandwidth is available or when being off-camera helps. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients check in between sessions, do short check-ins, or fit support into a busy day. These options give flexibility while keeping the focus on clear, usable techniques.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Georgia, South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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