Amanda Burns earned both a Master of Arts and an Education Specialist degree from Tennessee Technological University and built her early career over eight years in the Nashville area. She obtained licensure as a professional counselor in Tennessee through supervised clinical work with the Vanderbilt Community Mental Health Center.

While in Nashville, Amanda worked as part of a team that provided individual, group, and family therapy within the Nashville Metro Schools Special Education program for children and adolescents classified as emotionally disturbed. That work included helping educators and families develop behavior intervention plans and classroom support strategies. During the same period she also provided outpatient therapy to adolescents and adults at the Vanderbilt Community Health Center.

After relocating, Amanda’s practice shifted to focus on adolescents and adults in both residential treatment and outpatient settings. For the past eight years she has operated as a sole proprietor of her own private practice, located in a suite shared with a psychiatrist, two psychiatric nurse practitioners, and another therapist.

Her training and clinical experience are broad and cover a range of concerns, including stress and anxiety, trauma and abuse – such as sexual or physical abuse and related post-traumatic stress – grief and loss, depression, anger management, crisis intervention, addictions, bipolar disorder, ADHD, compassion fatigue, sleeping disorders, relationship and family conflicts, parenting challenges and parent training for behavioral issues, coping with chronic physical and mental health conditions, self-esteem work, and diagnostic assessment of mental health conditions.