About Michelle
Dr. Michelle Burns is a Licensed Professional Counselor with two decades of clinical experience. She practices from South Carolina and offers straightforward support for people coping with anxiety and related concerns.
She focuses on helping clients talk through problems and find clearer ways to manage daily life. She keeps sessions practical and goal‑oriented. Michelle uses tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep stress alive.
Background and approach
She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation and solution-focused methods to set short-term, achievable goals. In sessions she aims for a calm, nonjudgmental tone. Michelle works to build a plan you can try between appointments and then adjusts it as needed.
She explains strategies in plain language and checks in about what is or isn’t working. Her areas of focus include relationship strain, parenting concerns, anger, sleep and eating issues, grief, career stress, and life transitions. She also supports people dealing with trauma, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and women’s issues among other topics.
Michelle’s experience spans many settings over 20 years. She uses familiar, step-by-step approaches so clients can see progress in daily routines. If someone wants a therapist who balances practical skills with empathetic listening, she may be a good fit.
How practical therapy methods translate online
Michelle commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot and change thought and behavior patterns that feed anxiety and depression. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts, testing them, and practicing new behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and mindful awareness. DBT skills can be useful when strong emotions, anger, or relationship conflicts make it hard to respond calmly.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Michelle will work with each person to pick methods that match their goals and preferences, and she adjusts techniques as progress is made. The plan is built together, with clear short-term goals and regular check-ins about what is working.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation without travel, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging support quick check-ins or brief coaching between meetings. These options help people fit sessions into work breaks, care routines, or other schedules while keeping therapy practical and accessible.
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What this therapist 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
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