About Saundra
Saundra Burleson is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor who practices in North Carolina. She brings 13 years of formal counseling experience and more than two decades working in mental health. Saundra helps people who are coping with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, addictions, relationship strains, and ADHD.
She aims to make therapy approachable and straightforward for people who feel stuck or overwhelmed. She keeps sessions respectful and nonjudgmental. Conversations focus on what the person needs right now.
Background and approach
Saundra draws on a mix of methods to match each client’s situation, and she explains options plainly so people can choose what feels right. Her work often includes practical skills for managing strong emotions and daily stress. She teaches tools for mood shifts, coping with change, and improving communication.
Clients learn steps they can use between sessions to handle triggers and move toward goals. Saundra also attends to complex histories like trauma, abuse, and co-occurring substance concerns. She supports people navigating identity and relationship questions, and those facing life transitions such as separation or caregiving stress.
Her approach balances emotional processing with concrete strategies. Scheduling is flexible with some weeknight and weekend times available. Sessions are offered in English and include options like video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and an appointment that fits the client’s schedule.
Therapeutic approaches and how they fit online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on choosing actions that match personal values and can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. It teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful thought patterns and develop coping habits for symptoms like worry, low mood, or ADHD-related challenges.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and needs, and together they will try methods that fit the person’s situation. Adjustments are made over time if something isn’t working.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let the therapist and client use visual cues for deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be a shorter check-in or a lower-bandwidth option. Live chat and text-based messaging allow ongoing support between sessions and work well for brief updates or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy routine and to maintain continuity when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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