About Amanda
Amanda Burns is a licensed professional counselor with 15 years of clinical experience in Tennessee. She began her career after completing graduate studies at Tennessee Technological University and building her early practice with supervised work at Vanderbilt Community Mental Health Center. Amanda has worked in outpatient and residential settings and spent several years supporting schools and community health programs.
Her background includes individual, group, and school-based work with children and adolescents early on, and later shifted toward adults and teens in outpatient and residential care.
How Amanda works
She has also run a independent practice for the past eight years alongside other mental health professionals. The mix of settings gives her experience with a broad range of concerns. Amanda uses straightforward, practical methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma-related problems.
She also addresses grief, addiction concerns, sleep troubles, parenting strain, and caregiver stress. Therapy focuses on clear steps people can try between sessions and realistic goals that fit daily life. She draws from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral ideas, dialectical behavior strategies, emotionally-focused techniques, and mindfulness practices.
These approaches guide how she listens, helps people reframe thoughts, builds emotion skills, and develops coping tools. Sessions tend to be collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Amanda aims to create an environment where people can talk through painful experiences, learn new skills, and make steady changes that improve day-to-day functioning.
Amanda lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Amanda works with
The areas below are the ones Amanda selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Tennessee |
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Online support options
Approaches online that build skills and calm
Amanda commonly uses client-centered methods and cognitive behavioral techniques in sessions. Client-centered work means the conversation starts with the person’s goals and feelings, and sessions are shaped around what matters most to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep problems like anxiety and depression going.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. Those skills can be useful when stress feels overwhelming or emotions spike, and they translate into daily routines people can practice between sessions.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Amanda collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Clients and therapist adjust the plan as progress is made and new challenges appear.
Online therapy here is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation for skills practice, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging works for ongoing reflections between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and maintain consistent contact with licensed professionals.
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