Ginger Burns, LCSW, CSW

Ginger Burns is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, sleep problems, career shifts, depression, and trauma and abuse. She works with adults on practical goals, coping skills, and day-to-day struggles. Her manner is direct and warm, with appropriate humor when it fits the moment.

Ginger uses a client-centered approach that keeps each person’s goals in focus. She helps people identify strengths and build measurable steps toward those goals. Sessions can be short-term and solution-focused or longer term depending on what the person needs.

She holds a Master of Social Work and a Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education. Ginger has worked in teaching and mental health roles for more than a decade and has nine years of clinical experience as a social worker. She is licensed as an LCSW in Florida and in Georgia and also holds the CSW designation.

For five years she provided behavioral health services to active-duty military, their dependents, and retirees both in the continental U.S. and overseas. Her clinical interests include ADHD, bipolar concerns, chronic pain and illness, insomnia, panic, postpartum depression, and workplace or communication problems.

In sessions she blends evidence-based methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, acceptance and commitment ideas, and motivational interviewing. Her aim is to create clear, measurable progress while honoring each person’s unique situation and values.

How Ginger’s approaches translate to online work

Ginger commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and client-centered techniques. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavioral changes to reduce anxiety, panic, or depressive symptoms. Client-centered therapy emphasizes the person’s goals and strengths, with the therapist listening and shaping sessions around what matters most to the individual.

She also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas and mindfulness to help people tolerate difficult feelings while moving toward valued actions. These approaches can be combined to make short-term plans or longer-term growth work. Choosing the right mix is collaborative - the therapist and client review needs, goals, and preferences and adjust methods together as work progresses.

Practical benefits of online work include fitting sessions into a busy week, making it easier to keep regular appointments, and using shorter check-ins when schedules demand. Confirm the current session options before booking so you know which formats are available. The therapist will help arrange a schedule that fits your life and therapeutic goals.