Amanda Burns, LPC

Amanda Burns earned both a Master of Arts and an Education Specialist degree from Tennessee Technological University and began her clinical career working in the Nashville area. She completed supervised clinical training at the Vanderbilt Community Mental Health Center, where she obtained licensure as an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor, a state credential for practicing counselors. During her time in Nashville, she provided individual, group, and family therapy within the Nashville Metro Schools Special Education program for students identified as emotionally disturbed and supported educators and families in developing behavior intervention and classroom support plans.

She also offered outpatient therapy to adolescents and adults through the Vanderbilt Community Health Center, gaining experience across age groups and treatment settings. After relocating, her focus shifted to working with adolescents and adults in both residential treatment and outpatient environments. For the past eight years she has maintained a private practice as a sole proprietor in a suite shared with a psychiatrist, two psychiatric nurse practitioners, and another therapist.

Her training and clinical experience span a broad range of concerns, including trauma - such as sexual and physical abuse and post-traumatic stress - grief and loss, anger management, crisis intervention, depression and anxiety, parent training for behavioral issues, coping with chronic illness and overlapping health conditions, and diagnostic assessment of mental health concerns. She integrates a variety of therapeutic approaches to address these needs and to support adults and adolescents through challenging life transitions and complex symptoms.