Audrey Burke-Wardlaw, LPC

Audrey Burke-Wardlaw is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 25 years of clinical experience supporting youth, individuals, groups, and couples. Her practice spans nearly three decades and a variety of settings - including mental health clinics, outpatient community programs, hospital inpatient units, and in-home services - giving her a broad perspective on the challenges people face across the lifespan.

She works with clients on issues such as depression, anger, grief, trauma, anxiety, phobias, and self-concept or self-esteem concerns. Audrey applies a life span approach that allows her to serve all age groups and uses a multicultural framework to meet the needs of diverse populations. Her methods draw from a range of evidence-informed techniques, and she selects interventions based on each client’s unique situation rather than relying on a one-size-fits-all model.

Audrey’s counseling style emphasizes trust, respect, and unconditional positive regard. She does not make assumptions about a client’s experience and invites clients to describe their lives from their own perspective. Valuing the client as the expert in their life, she meets people where they are with empathy and sustained commitment, and she stays current with new and innovative approaches to better support recovery, growth, and coping.

Therapeutic Approaches and Accessible Online Care

Audrey commonly integrates Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) into her online practice. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on building a supportive therapeutic relationship in which the client’s perspective guides the work and helps with issues like self-esteem, relationship concerns, and life transitions. CBT is a structured, skills-based approach that helps people identify and change thinking and behavior patterns that contribute to anxiety, depression, and stress. DBT emphasizes skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness and can be especially useful for intense emotions, anger, and relationship challenges.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Audrey collaborates with each client to determine which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adapting techniques over time as progress is made. This collaborative stance helps ensure the work stays relevant and practical.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for scheduling and make it easier to maintain continuity of care amid life demands. These formats support ongoing collaboration with licensed professionals and allow therapists to deliver focused, skills-based work across many common concerns.