About Nadirah
Nadirah Burris is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) with a decade of counseling experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and parenting challenges. Her approach aims to make daily life feel more manageable and to help clients set realistic goals that fit their lives.
She has worked in a range of settings, including schools, rehabilitation facilities, and community agencies. That variety shaped a practical style that looks for steps people can use right away.
How Nadirah works
Sessions often center on identifying priorities, building coping skills, and practicing new ways to handle pressure. Nadirah blends techniques from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with client-centered and mindfulness practices. She encourages people to notice what matters to them, then take concrete action toward those values.
Conversations focus on problems people are facing now and on small changes that add up over time. Clients concerned about relationships, family of origin issues, caregiver stress, body image, or attachment struggles will find focused attention on those topics. She also addresses ADHD, trauma and abuse, abandonment, adoption and foster care matters, and communication or control issues.
The work often includes coaching-style support alongside therapeutic tools. In sessions people can expect a direct but supportive tone that emphasizes realistic goals. Nadirah helps clients build a plan and stay on track so everyday life becomes more manageable.
Her aim is to help people lead lives that match their priorities and values.
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What Nadirah works with
The areas below are the ones Nadirah selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oklahoma |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to clarify their values and take small actions that matter to them. It helps with anxiety, stress, life transitions, and getting unstuck from worrying patterns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and anger. Client-Centered Therapy puts the person's experience at the center and uses empathy and listening to help people find their own solutions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them as progress is made so the work fits the client's needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Video is useful for deeper conversations and exercises that benefit from face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or for check-ins, and live chat or messaging can be used for quick support or ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These options offer flexibility and a range of ways to stay connected with a licensed professional.
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