About Shamanda
Shamanda Burston is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) based in North Carolina. She works with people who manage a lot on the outside but feel overwhelmed, anxious, or exhausted inside. She presents a practical, straightforward style that helps clients make small, usable changes.
Shamanda focuses on stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, depression, grief, and ADHD among other struggles. She pays attention to how life transitions, money pressures, and high expectations affect daily functioning and wellbeing.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to reduce overwhelm and create clearer priorities. Her work draws on attachment-based ideas to notice relationship patterns. She also uses client-centered techniques to keep conversations grounded in the client's goals.
Cognitive behavioral approaches are used to identify thoughts and habits that keep problems going. Shamanda blends practical coaching around finances and life planning with traditional therapy. That means talking through immediate problems and building longer-term routines that fit each person's life.
The tone in sessions is direct but supportive. With 15 years of experience, she offers a calm space to sort out choices and make plans. People who are tired of carrying everything alone often find the sessions helpful for creating boundaries and clearer next steps.
Approach-driven online therapy that fits your life
Shamanda commonly draws on attachment-based work to identify repeating relationship patterns and how they affect current stress. That approach helps when issues stem from past connection experiences and shows up as trust, boundary, or communication struggles.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and trying practical alternatives. CBT is useful for anxiety, mood concerns, and coping with daily demands because it offers clear steps to change what isn't working.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss your goals, preferences, and needs and then try methods that fit you. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as progress unfolds.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different schedules and comfort levels. Video lets you have a full conversation similar to an in-person visit, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or messaging works well for brief check-ins or when a shorter touchpoint fits your day. These options make it simpler to keep regular contact and maintain momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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