Aquita Burrus, LCSW

Aquita Burrus is a licensed clinical social worker who draws on psychotherapy and spirituality to help people navigate hard moments. She focuses on practical steps that fit each person’s life. Aquita listens for body, mind, spirit, and relationships to understand what is happening now.

She has eight years of experience working with stress and anxiety. She also helps people dealing with trauma and abuse, grief and loss, and depression. Sessions are shaped around what each person needs, not a fixed checklist.

Aquita pays attention to how relationships and everyday routines affect wellbeing. She works with concerns like caregiver stress, communication problems, and panic attacks. She also addresses guilt, shame, forgiveness, and questions about life purpose and self-love.

Her approach blends well-known therapy styles to match a person’s goals. That can include tools from cognitive behavioral work, mindfulness practice, and skills for managing emotions. EMDR is also part of her toolbox for processing traumatic memories when appropriate.

People who come to Aquita can expect respectful, down-to-earth conversations. She aims to help people find creativity and courage to cope and to make changes they want. To begin, readers are invited to follow the site’s Start Therapy steps and complete the brief matching questionnaire.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

CBT focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and testing small behavior changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. In a session this looks like setting an agenda, practicing new skills, and tracking short experiments between meetings.

EMDR helps people process distressing memories by using guided bilateral stimulation alongside focused recall. It is often used when past events continue to cause strong reactions, and sessions move at a pace that feels manageable for the person.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Aquita will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and comfort level. That process can include trying different tools and adjusting plans as needs change.

The biography does not specify which online session types are offered, so confirm available formats before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and offer options that suit quieter surroundings or lower bandwidth. Licensed professionals can adapt CBT and EMDR techniques to remote settings, and Aquita uses these approaches to help people practice skills and process difficult experiences without requiring a particular in-person arrangement.