About Michelle
Dr. Michelle Burns is a licensed professional counselor with two decades of clinical experience. She practices in South Carolina and brings calm, direct support to people facing difficult life moments.
She keeps language simple and makes sessions about real concerns and practical next steps. Michelle focuses on relationship stress, family and parenting challenges, anger, low self-esteem, anxiety, trauma and grief. She also helps with sleep and eating struggles, career transitions, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and intimacy-related issues.
How Michelle works
Additional attention is available for aging and geriatric issues, cancer, divorce and separation, and women’s concerns. Her work uses clear, goal-focused methods. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skills for managing strong emotions and improving distress tolerance. Solution-Focused Therapy narrows in on what a person wants to be different and builds small, achievable steps toward that change. Sessions aim to be collaborative and practical.
Michelle listens, helps set manageable goals, and offers tools people can use between meetings. She keeps explanations straightforward so parents and busy professionals can follow along. People meet with Michelle by phone, video, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Sessions are organized through a subscription plan that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and scheduling follows based on availability.
Michelle lists 3 ways of working on the entry:
What Michelle works with
The areas below are the ones Michelle selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | South Carolina |
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Online support options
Evidence-informed approaches for online sessions
Dr. Burns uses approaches like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy in online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and low mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and managing strong reactions so people can stay steady during hard moments.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences, and what has or has not helped before. Together they will pick methods and adjust them over time to match progress and changing needs.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer practical flexibility. Video lets people have a more face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions can fit into a work break or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for short check-ins, brief coaching, or when writing feels more comfortable than speaking. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around busy schedules and life demands.
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A practical next step
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