About Shamanda
Shamanda Burston is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) based in North Carolina. She works with people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, addictions, low self-esteem, or big life changes. Her style is straightforward and supportive, aimed at helping clients find practical steps forward.
Shamanda spends sessions helping people name what is most draining and set realistic, manageable goals. She blends talk therapy with attention to everyday pressures like finances and work demands.
Background and approach
This helps clients create clearer plans and reduce the constant feeling of running on empty. Her work often addresses relationship and family issues, trauma and grief, as well as struggles with sleep, eating, and substance use. She also supports people dealing with caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, and problems tied to control or communication.
The focus is on what the client wants to change and how to get there. Shamanda uses a mix of approaches tailored to each person. She draws on attachment-informed ideas, client-centered listening, cognitive-behavioral tools, existential reflection, and mindfulness practices.
Sessions are practical and aimed at helping people make sustainable shifts in daily life. With 15 years in the field, Shamanda brings experience and a no-nonsense attitude to therapy. She strives to make the process understandable and useful so clients can feel steadier, act with more clarity, and rebuild energy for what matters most.
How Shamanda’s approaches fit with online therapy
Shamanda uses client-centered listening to make sure each session starts from what matters most to the person. This approach focuses on hearing concerns and shaping sessions around the client's goals, which adapts well to online formats. Attachment-based ideas guide work on safety in relationships and communication, helping people understand patterns and try different ways of relating in real life.She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, phobias, sleep problems, and mood shifts because it gives simple exercises and experiments people can practice between sessions. The therapist will work with each person to decide which approaches feel right, trying options together and adjusting based on results and preferences.
Online therapy with Shamanda offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when deeper connection is needed. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to get support between meetings, jot down thoughts, or use messaging for brief coaching on coping skills. These options let people fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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