Claudia Burns, LPC

Claudia Burns is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 20 years of experience. She draws on long experience in mental health settings to help people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, and the daily strain of life changes.

She returned to school while raising three sons and working at Baylor College of Medicine. Her practicum included work on a county psychiatric ward and outreach in the Astrodome after Hurricane Katrina. Early internships exposed her to eating disorders and their complex challenges.

For 15 years she worked in neuropsychological testing, spending extended time with clients to map cognitive, emotional, and mental concerns. That work deepened her understanding of post-traumatic stress, depression, anxiety, and the adjustments required after traumatic injury or illness, including issues related to disability and returning to work.

Claudia aims to meet each person where they are and build a strong therapeutic connection. She emphasizes emotional support, practical education, and helping clients gain insight into their patterns and relationships. She also values humor as part of healing.

Her approach draws on cognitive behavioral and psychodynamic ideas along with attachment-based, mindfulness, and dialectical behavior tools when helpful. She uses these methods to teach coping skills, reduce symptoms, and support people adapting after trauma, including traumatic brain injury.

To begin, she asks clients to share their concerns and goals so she can tailor sessions and tools to real life needs. Claudia looks forward to talking through what you are experiencing and helping you find workable steps forward.

How her approaches translate to online work

Claudia uses cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and practice different behaviors; this method is practical and often focuses on skills for anxiety, mood, and sleep. She also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns and to build stronger ways of relating to others. Dialectical behavior therapy offers concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved communication.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals, everyday challenges, and what has helped in the past. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan over time based on progress and preference.

Confirm which session formats are currently offered before booking, since the biography does not list them. Online therapy can help fit counseling into busy days by reducing travel time, making sessions easier to schedule around work or caregiving, and allowing shorter check-ins or phone-based conversations when needed. Licensed professionals can use these options to deliver the same skills work, insight-oriented conversations, and structured behavior practice that Claudia emphasizes in her in-person work.