Claudia Burns, LPC

Claudia Burns is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 20 years of experience. She lists stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, depression, and social anxiety and phobia among the concerns she addresses. She combines practical skills with conversational guidance to help people manage difficult feelings and life changes.

Burns earned a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Sociology and later returned to school to complete a master’s degree in Psychology while working full time. Early clinical placements included a psychiatric ward and disaster response work, which exposed her to crisis settings and varied mental health needs. She also coordinated an online Panic Disorder Support Group for several years before formal clinical training.

For 15 years she worked in neuropsychological testing, doing full-day evaluations of cognitive, emotional, and mental functioning. That work involved assessment of PTSD, depression, anxiety after traumatic injury, and adjustment to chronic illness. She also worked with people pursuing disability benefits and clients returning to work with ongoing health problems.

Her approach blends cognitive behavioral techniques with psychodynamic ideas and draws on attachment-based and mindfulness practices when useful. Sessions focus on emotional support, practical skills, education, and helping people gain clearer insight into themselves and others. She also uses elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy when appropriate.

Claudia aims to build a straightforward therapeutic relationship and uses conversation and occasional humor to make difficult topics easier to discuss. She encourages people to learn tools they can use outside sessions to manage symptoms and life transitions.

How Claudia applies therapeutic approaches in online sessions