About Saundra
Saundra Burleson is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) practicing in North Carolina with 13 years of direct counseling experience and over two decades in mental health work. She focuses on practical help for people facing anxiety, stress, depression, relationship worries, grief, addiction, and major life changes. Her style is straightforward and nonjudgmental.
She wants to help people take the next step when they feel stuck. Clients can expect a respectful and compassionate atmosphere.
Background and approach
Saundra combines several approaches to meet each person’s needs, drawing on cognitive behavioral techniques, acceptance and commitment ideas, dialectical behavior tools, and emotionally focused methods. She listens for patterns that keep a problem going and then tries practical ways to change them. Sessions are collaborative and tailored.
She helps people set clear goals, learn coping skills, and practice new ways of handling strong emotions. Work may include mindfulness exercises, skill-building for relationships, or strategies to manage cravings and triggers related to addiction. Her background includes long experience in community mental health settings and individual counseling across a range of concerns.
Saundra offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules. People who prefer direct, compassionate, and skills-focused support may find her approach helpful. She works in English and practices under her North Carolina LCMHC credential.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step connect prospective clients to her services.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Saundra uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that maintain anxiety and low mood. CBT sessions often focus on practical experiments, thought records, and step-by-step behavior changes to reduce symptoms.She also incorporates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) which helps people clarify their values and take action toward what matters despite uncomfortable feelings. ACT uses mindfulness and values-driven goals to reduce the hold of worry and avoidance.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a short break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between sessions or use written check-ins when that is more convenient. These options aim to make therapy flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does Saundra address?
How would you describe her therapy style?
What experience does she bring to therapy?
Where does she practice and what is her credential?
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Can international clients work with her?
What session formats are available?
How do I begin working with Saundra?
What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.