Dr. Michelle Burns

Dr. Michelle Burns is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 20 years of clinical experience. She practices in South Carolina and focuses on career concerns alongside relationship and family topics. She aims to make the first step feel manageable and supportive for people who are nervous about starting therapy.

Dr. Burns uses clear, practical conversations to help people name problems and test small changes. She listens for the patterns that keep stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, or anger cycling in daily life. Sessions tend to focus on concrete skills and short-term strategies that can be used between meetings.

Her approach draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps people spot and change unhelpful thoughts, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy, which offers skills for managing strong emotions. She also uses Solution-Focused Therapy to identify realistic next steps and build momentum toward goals like career change or better sleep.

People come to Dr. Burns for help with grief, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, compassion fatigue, and life transitions such as divorce or cancer-related stress. She also supports those wanting help with eating or sleeping difficulties, ADHD-related challenges, and finding more purpose or self-love.

In sessions she encourages practical experiments, coaching-style guidance, and clear goal-setting. She works to create a nonjudgmental space where clients can try new ways of coping and see what helps in everyday life.

How CBT, DBT, and Solution-Focused Work Online

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helps people notice patterns of thought that increase anxiety or low mood and then tries small behavior changes to test new beliefs. It is often useful for worries about work, sleep problems, and depression.

DBT, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, teaches skills for managing intense emotions and reducing reactive behaviors. It can help when anger, impulsive responses, or overwhelm get in the way of daily functioning.

Solution-Focused Therapy centers on identifying realistic next steps and building on what already works. It is goal-directed and can speed up progress on issues like career transitions or parenting challenges.

Choosing the right approach happens together. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. That collaborative process guides which skills or techniques are emphasized over time.

Session arrangements are not specified in the biography, so confirm available formats before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time so people can attend from where they are. Licensed professionals can adapt CBT, DBT, and solution-focused tools effectively in remote work when the format matches a client's needs and daily routine.