About Shwanna
Shwanna Burton is a licensed professional counselor in Georgia with six years of experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and challenges with addiction. She also supports concerns around relationships, intimacy, parenting strain, anger, career decisions, and attention-related struggles.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can speak honestly about their thoughts and feelings. Sessions focus on practical steps and real-life skills that can be tried between meetings.
Background and approach
Shwanna encourages small, manageable changes that fit into everyday life. Her approach blends listening with structured tools. She uses client-centered methods to follow each person's goals and pace.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thinking and replace it with workable alternatives. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance when feelings feel overwhelming. Shwanna has worked with people facing life transitions, grief and loss, and career stress.
She also supports those dealing with chronic caregiver strain, body image concerns, and commitment or control issues. Her background makes her comfortable addressing both sudden changes and long-standing patterns. In sessions she aims to make therapy straightforward and doable.
She will talk through what might help, try new strategies together, and adjust the plan as needed. For someone taking the first step toward change, she focuses on steady progress and realistic goals.
How her approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the person's own goals; the therapist reflects what is shared and helps people clarify what matters most to them. This approach is useful for building trust and finding a direction that feels right.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Online CBT sessions often include simple exercises to notice thinking patterns and try small behavior changes that reduce anxiety or low mood.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions and tolerating distress. Skills training can help when emotions feel overwhelming or when relationships create repeated conflict.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their concerns, goals, and preferences, then recommend a mix of methods. That plan is adjusted as progress is made so therapy stays useful and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit into a short break, live chat is helpful for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep up momentum between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English