About Shwanna
Shwanna Burton is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, grief, depression, relationship struggles, and ADHD. She speaks plainly and aims to make the first step feel less overwhelming for someone seeking support. She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about what’s hardest for them.
Conversations focus on what matters day to day, such as coping with losses, handling anger, or finding ways to manage mood and concentration challenges.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and grounded in the client’s real life. Shwanna uses client-centered techniques to follow each person’s pace and priorities. She also draws on cognitive behavioral methods to spot unhelpful thinking and build new habits.
Dialectical behavior ideas are used when people need tools for regulation and tough emotions. Over six years of practice have included work with people facing major life changes, caregiving stress, career pressure, and issues around intimacy and commitment. She respects different backgrounds and meets people where they are in their healing.
Therapy with Shwanna focuses on clear goals and small, achievable steps. She encourages practical strategies you can try between sessions. The intention is steady progress rather than quick fixes.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy puts the person’s priorities first. The therapist listens closely, follows the client’s lead, and helps shape goals that feel relevant. This approach is helpful for worries about stress, grief, and relationship concerns where understanding and support matter most.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. CBT gives concrete exercises and homework that can be discussed over video or text and used between sessions to reduce anxiety and improve mood.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for managing strong emotions and improving distress tolerance. DBT-style tools can help people with anger, intense mood shifts, or patterns that cause relationship strain.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each client to pick methods that match their goals, pace, and preferences. That choice may shift as progress is made, and plans are adjusted together.
Online therapy makes sessions easier to fit into busy lives. Video calls let therapists and clients meet face to face when needed. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is preferred. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick updates, brief coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options offer more flexibility for regular, consistent care.
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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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