About Saundra
Saundra Burleson is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor who practices in North Carolina. She brings 13 years of clinical experience helping people manage anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, trauma, and relationship stress. Saundra listens without judgment and focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions.
She structures work around each person's goals and strengths. Sessions emphasize clear, everyday strategies such as skill building, behavior change, and naming painful patterns.
How Saundra works
Saundra often blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Client-Centered techniques to match what a person needs in the moment. Clients may come for stress, grief, anger, intimacy concerns, or support with mood and attention differences. She also addresses topics like abandonment, adoption and foster care history, caregiver strain, body image, and substance use.
The approach is direct but compassionate, with short-term tools and longer-term coping skills. Saundra explains things in straightforward language and helps people try small experiments to see what works. She invites questions and adapts plans as progress is made.
Her goal is to help people feel more able to handle everyday challenges. Practical details are discussed up front, including how sessions fit into a person's life and what to expect from the work. People who value a respectful, relational approach with clear strategies may find her style a good match.
Saundra lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Saundra works with
The areas below are the ones Saundra selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and difficult life changes by focusing on what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete tools to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, mood problems, and managing reactions to stress. Client-Centered Therapy prioritizes a respectful, empathic connection and supports people as they find their own solutions; this approach is helpful when someone needs acceptance and encouragement while making changes.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what has worked or not worked before. Together they decide whether ACT, CBT, client-centered work, or a mix fits best, and plans are adjusted as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for a fuller conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is good for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing, shorter communication between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and maintain continuity of care.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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