About Michelle
Dr. Michelle Burns is a licensed professional counselor with two decades of clinical experience. She practices in South Carolina and brings a steady, practical approach to sessions.
She focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trouble with relationships and parenting. Clients find that she talks plainly and keeps sessions focused on real problems. She helps people break worries into smaller steps and try new ways of coping.
Background and approach
Sessions are geared toward clear goals, skill practice, and steady progress rather than long lists of theory. Her background includes work with anger, trauma and abuse, intimacy concerns, and challenges around eating and sleeping. She also supports people facing career shifts, life changes, divorce and separation, cancer-related concerns, and aging issues.
Coaching and compassion fatigue are part of her toolkit for professionals and caregivers. Dr. Burns uses practical methods such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Solution-Focused Therapy to shape sessions.
She explains techniques simply and helps people try them between meetings. The aim is to build useful habits and clearer thinking that fit daily life. Sessions are offered in English and are available through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Signing up begins with a short matching questionnaire and then scheduling according to therapist availability. She welcomes people who want straightforward support and clear steps forward.
Practical approaches for online therapy
Dr. Burns uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and change them into more balanced ones. CBT works well for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating concerns because it gives clear steps and exercises to try between sessions.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and better ways to manage intense feelings. DBT techniques are helpful for anger, relationship distress, and situations where strong emotions get in the way of daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust strategies based on what helps. This collaborative process helps shape sessions so they feel useful and focused.
Online therapy offers flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video is good for face-to-face interaction, phone works when bandwidth is low, chat can suit short check-ins, and messaging lets people write out thoughts or check in between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between appointments.
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What this counselor 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