About Aquita
Aquita Burrus is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in North Carolina with eight years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and the fallout from trauma and abuse. Her approach aims to make the first steps feel doable for someone who is worried and overwhelmed.
She looks at each person as a whole - body, mind, spirit, and the relationships that matter to them.
Background and approach
That means conversations cover symptoms, daily routines, and the roles people hold at home and work. She listens for strengths clients already have and helps make those strengths useful in everyday life. Aquita draws on a mix of approaches to match the concern at hand.
She uses practical tools to reduce panic and anxiety, mindfulness to slow racing thoughts, and trauma-focused methods when past events keep showing up in the present. The goal is to teach skills that can be used between sessions. Sessions are tailored to individual needs and paced to what each person can handle.
She respects clients' beliefs and works without imposing her own. People can expect a direct, caring style that aims to build coping skills and clearer direction. For those dealing with caregiver stress, relationship communication problems, or persistent shame and guilt, she brings focused strategies to address those areas.
Aquita supports people as they make small, steady changes toward better daily functioning and self-compassion.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical exercises. It often helps with anxiety, panic attacks, and mood symptoms by teaching clear steps to change thinking and behavior.Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and slow down racing thoughts. These techniques support daily coping and help people notice emotions without getting swept up in them.
EMDR, or eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, is a trauma-focused method that helps people process distressing memories so those memories feel less disruptive. It can be useful when past events continue to cause anxiety or flashbacks.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match goals, symptoms, and personal preferences. Sessions may mix techniques over time as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone can be a good option if bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text works for short check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep progress moving forward.
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- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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