About Burton
Burton Carriker is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 36 years of experience. He brings a calm, straightforward style and respects each person's beliefs, including faith when it matters to them. He aims to make starting therapy feel manageable for people taking that first step.
Burt focuses on everyday stresses like anxiety, work pressure, and low mood. He helps people sort through relationship and family conflict and supports parents facing strain at home.
Background and approach
Practical conversation and problem-solving are central to his work in sessions. He listens for strengths in each person's story and uses those strengths to guide change. Sessions are collaborative - he asks questions, reflects concerns back, and helps set steps people can try between meetings.
He pays attention to communication patterns and control issues that often make problems feel stuck. Burt also addresses life transitions such as divorce or separation, and topics like forgiveness, guilt, and financial stress. He helps people clarify life purpose and make decisions about career challenges.
Men's issues are included among the practical topics he tackles with straightforward conversation. Clients meet with him from Georgia. Sessions can be arranged as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
He explains the process, answers questions about how therapy works, and helps people move toward realistic goals at a steady pace.
Approaches that guide online care
Burton uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical problem solving and strengthening personal resources. One common approach helps people break down anxiety and stress into manageable steps, teaching coping strategies and simple behavioral changes that reduce immediate pressure. Another approach centers on improving communication and addressing control issues to ease relationship and family tensions, using structured conversation and practice between sessions.Finding the right method is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, try techniques, and adjust what doesn’t fit. Together they decide which tools - talk, behavioral experiments, or communication practice - best match the person's needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good shorter check-in or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging let people send thoughts in real time or between sessions, and can fit around work or family schedules. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing everyday life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Experience
- 36 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English