About Shonna
Shonna Burnett helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, relationship challenges, low self-esteem, grief, trauma, and related concerns. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with about 15 years of experience and practices in Mississippi. She takes a practical approach in sessions.
Shonna uses tools from different therapy models and adapts them to each person's needs. She focuses on skills people can use between sessions to manage mood, reduce anxiety, and handle difficult situations.
Background and approach
Her training includes a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in professional counseling, and she has worked in many settings. That background includes work in correctional and juvenile justice settings as well as inpatient, outpatient, and residential care. Those roles involved individual, group, and family work across a range of concerns.
Shonna commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques and dialectical behavior ideas when they fit the person’s goals, but she stays flexible about the methods she brings. She also helps with issues like addiction, sleep problems, anger, caregiver stress, body image, and navigating life changes. In sessions she aims to create an open, nonjudgmental space for people to talk about their thoughts and feelings.
Her focus is on supporting people to build coping skills, increase motivation, and move toward a more satisfying, manageable life.
Evidence-based techniques and flexible online care
Shonna commonly draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and many stress-related concerns and focuses on practical exercises and short-term goals.She also uses ideas from dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills. These tools can help when emotions feel overwhelming or relationships become tense. Shonna blends methods as needed and will discuss which approaches fit a person's goals.
Deciding on the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist reviews symptoms, life circumstances, and what the person hopes to change, then suggests techniques to try together. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer writing or need brief ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep consistent momentum toward goals.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Georgia, Mississippi
- Languages
- English