About Shwanna
Shwanna Burton, LPC helps people who are dealing with stress and anxiety, addiction concerns, relationship strain, grief, and depression. She guides clients through immediate worries and longer-term challenges like career stress, parenting strain, and coping with life changes. Her approach is warm and direct, aimed at making it easier to talk about hard things.
Shwanna uses clear, practical methods drawn from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and elements of dialectical behavior therapy.
Background and approach
She focuses on what is getting in the way now, and on small skills that reduce overwhelm. Sessions include talking through thoughts, learning new ways to respond, and practicing concrete tools between meetings. With six years of experience and a Licensed Professional Counselor credential, Shwanna offers steady support without judgment.
She aims to build a respectful space where people feel heard and understood. That steadiness can help when worries feel relentless or emotions cycle quickly. People come to her for issues such as anger, intimacy struggles, ADHD concerns, bipolar mood challenges, and compassion fatigue.
She also addresses attachment and abandonment concerns and the effects of major life events like divorce or caregiving stress. Her work is practical and paced to each person’s needs. Sessions are offered in English and take place online for clients in Georgia.
Shwanna invites those ready to begin to complete the brief matching questionnaire and schedule a first appointment.
How her approaches work online
Shwanna uses client-centered therapy to create a respectful space where clients set the pace and topics of conversation. This approach helps people feel heard and better able to identify what matters to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. It is useful for managing stress, panic, and patterns that keep problems going.She also incorporates Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving relationships. DBT techniques can help when emotions feel intense or when coping strategies are limited. Together these approaches give both short-term tools and longer-term habit change, and Shwanna works with each person to find the best mix based on goals and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a deeper connection is helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or when being on camera is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging provide brief check-ins, homework support, or a way to get started without scheduling a longer session. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to practice skills between meetings.
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What this therapist 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
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