Sheryl Burns

Sheryl Burns is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas who focuses on practical, person-centered care. She aims to create a calm space where people can talk about what’s hard and figure out steps forward. Sheryl draws on three years of counseling experience alongside a long background in education to relate to everyday stresses. She encourages small, realistic changes that fit into busy lives.

Sheryl uses Client-Centered Therapy to listen closely and follow each person’s pace. She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. Mindfulness and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are woven in to help manage intense feelings and reduce overwhelm.

Her work covers stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression, and coping with life changes. She also addresses communication problems, workplace issues, isolation, and relationship challenges related to divorce and separation. Forgiveness, guilt, and building self-love are common themes in sessions.

With over 20 years in education, Sheryl understands pressures on teachers and students and brings that practical awareness into sessions. She focuses on clear tools and compassionate listening rather than jargon. People who prefer a straightforward, supportive approach may find her style helpful.

Sheryl asks clients to take small steps and tracks progress together. She supports motivation and goal setting using Motivational Interviewing techniques. The overall aim is to help people feel more capable and move toward a more satisfying life.

How these approaches translate to online therapy

Sheryl blends Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to make online sessions practical and focused. Client-Centered Therapy means she listens closely and follows the client’s pace, helping people put words to what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy involves identifying thoughts that cause distress and testing small behavior changes to feel better.

She often uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills and mindfulness in session to help with intense emotions and stress. DBT-based skills teach concrete ways to tolerate distress and improve emotion regulation, while mindfulness practices help with grounding and reducing reactivity. Together these approaches target anxiety, depression, trauma-informed concerns, and coping with life changes.

Finding the right approach is a team effort. Sheryl will work with each person to choose techniques that match goals, preferences, and everyday routines. That collaborative process means trying tools, tracking what helps, and adjusting the plan as needed.

Please confirm available session formats before booking because the biography did not list them. Online work can make attending sessions easier by fitting them into a lunch break, reducing travel time, or allowing shorter check-ins when needed. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises, homework, and mindfulness practice to fit the client’s schedule and daily life.