Shamanda Burston, LCMHC

Based in North Carolina 15 years in practice Online sessions

Practical guidance for anxious, driven people

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How Shamanda works

Practical facts

Credentials: LCMHC
Licensed in: North Carolina
Years in practice: 15
Languages: English
Session format: Online, through our partner platform

About Shamanda

Shamanda Burston is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) based in North Carolina who works with people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, or life transitions. She is direct and practical in sessions and aims to help clients find clearer priorities and calmer day-to-day routines. Her work often includes conversations about anger and how it shows up in relationships and daily life.

With 15 years of experience, she blends talk therapy with attention to real-world pressures like money and career demands.

Background and approach

Sessions focus on steps clients can use right away - setting boundaries, managing worry, and creating small changes that add up. She encourages honest conversation instead of performance or perfection. Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns.

She also uses client-centered methods that keep the person’s goals central and cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and habits. Mindfulness tools show up in sessions to help people calm their bodies and notice reactions before they escalate. Shamanda often addresses concerns beyond anxiety, including addictions, depression, grief, parenting strain, ADHD, and relationship or family problems.

She also supports people coping with chronic illness, caregiver stress, or work-related compassion fatigue. The goal is practical coping and clearer choices rather than quick fixes. People meet with her by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging, which allows flexibility around busy schedules.

Conversations start with what matters most to the client and move toward realistic plans for change.

What Shamanda works with

Everything Shamanda lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Shamanda's practice.

Approaches Shamanda lists

Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.

How therapeutic approaches fit into online care

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current feelings and reactions. Online sessions can use this to spot patterns in how clients connect, argue, or withdraw, and to practice different responses in real time. Client-Centered Therapy keeps the client’s goals and values at the center of work, with the therapist listening, reflecting, and following the client’s pace to build trust and clarity. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing them through small experiments and new behaviors, useful for anxiety, anger, and low mood.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Shamanda will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan as progress or new concerns arise.

Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let the therapist and client work face to face when schedules make in-person visits hard. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or the client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging allow quick check-ins, shorter processing during a busy day, or an alternative when a full session isn’t possible. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, and other life demands.

Questions people ask about Shamanda

What kinds of concerns does Shamanda address?

She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, anger, grief, relationship and family problems, parenting strain, ADHD, and related issues like guilt, shame, and burnout.

What is her therapy style like?

Sessions are supportive and direct. She emphasizes practical steps, clear goals, and tools clients can use between meetings.

How much experience does she have?

She has 15 years of clinical experience working with adults on a range of emotional and behavioral concerns.

What credentials and location should I know?

She holds the LCMHC credential and practices in North Carolina.

Which languages are supported and are international clients accepted?

Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.

In what formats are sessions offered?

She works with clients via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.

How does payment and cost work?

Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

What are the first steps to begin therapy?

Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions based on the therapist's availability.