About Nadirah
Nadirah Burris is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Oklahoma with ten years of experience. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and life transitions. She speaks English and works with clients online using video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Nadirah invites people to think of mental health as an essential part of daily life, on par with caring for a home or vehicle. Her counseling work has taken place in schools, rehabilitation settings, and community agencies.
Background and approach
She uses straightforward conversation to help people set realistic goals and build practical plans. Sessions often center on what a person wants to change and small steps that move them closer to those goals. Nadirah draws on cognitive behavioral tools to identify unhelpful thoughts and shift behaviors.
She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take action, and Client-Centered Therapy to keep the person's perspective central. Mindfulness techniques are used to manage stress and increase present-moment awareness. When life feels overwhelming, she helps clients break problems into manageable pieces.
That may look like planning, coaching, or practicing coping skills between sessions. Nadirah pays attention to family of origin issues, parenting concerns, relationship patterns, and trauma history when those topics arise. Her approach is practical and conversational.
She aims to help people create attainable expectations and steady momentum. If someone wants clear steps and supportive guidance, she offers focused work toward lasting change.
How Nadirah Uses Evidence-Based Approaches Online
ACT, or Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, focuses on clarifying what matters most and taking small steps toward those values despite difficult thoughts or feelings. It can help with anxiety, depression, and motivation problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, identifies unhelpful thought patterns and builds practical behavior changes to improve mood and coping. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and anger. Client-Centered Therapy prioritizes the person's perspective and pace, offering empathetic listening and support while clients find their own solutions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Nadirah will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they will choose or combine methods that match the individual's needs and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different schedules and situations. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging make brief check-ins and ongoing coaching easier. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent while balancing everyday demands.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English