Audrey Burke-Wardlaw, LPC

Audrey Burke-Wardlaw is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 25 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, anger, relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, and many life changes. Her approach is grounded and practical, aimed at helping people cope and move forward.

Audrey draws on a range of methods to match each person's needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan. She emphasizes trust, respect, and unconditional positive regard in sessions. Clients are treated as the experts on their own lives and encouraged to speak about concerns without judgment.

Her background includes work in inpatient hospital settings, outpatient community programs, home-based care, and group and individual counseling. That variety informs how she tailors support for issues like self-esteem, parenting strain, adoption and foster care concerns, chronic illness, and bipolar disorder.

Audrey uses a life-span perspective and a multicultural lens when she works, which helps her address attachment issues, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, and communication or commitment problems. She keeps current with new counseling techniques and adapts what she uses to a person’s situation.

In sessions she focuses on listening first, then offering practical strategies drawn from the approaches that fit each person's goals. The aim is to build coping skills, clarify priorities, and create manageable steps toward change.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, acceptance, and responding to each person's experience. It helps when someone needs a supportive space to sort through feelings and choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and offers straightforward tools to change unhelpful habits; it can be useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and communication skills in practical steps that people can use day to day.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Audrey will collaborate with each person to identify goals and try methods that fit their needs and preferences. If something isn’t working, she adjusts the plan so the therapy stays useful and relevant.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by removing travel time and letting people connect from where they already are. It can also allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight or options that don't require a camera when bandwidth is limited. Confirm current session options before booking so you know which formats are offered and which best fit your routine.