Tiana Burdick
Practical support for people facing change
LCSW Connecticut
- Experience
- 9 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Trauma and abuse, Bipolar
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Tiana
Tiana Burdick, LCSW helps people who feel stuck at a crossroads or facing big life changes. She writes plainly and listens closely to understand what matters most to each person.
Background and approach
Her style is practical and down-to-earth, aimed at making next steps feel clearer and more manageable. She practiced mobile crisis work for several years, supporting both children and adults during urgent situations.
That work gave her a clear sense of how crises affect daily life and family interactions. It also shaped her ability to stay calm and focused when things feel overwhelming.
Tiana completed a Master of Social Work degree at Southern Connecticut State University after coursework at the University of Connecticut. She brings nine years of clinical experience to sessions and draws on that background when helping people with stress, anxiety, trauma, mood concerns, and relationship strains.
She has three plus years of experience supporting people on the autism spectrum and identifies as a neurodivergent clinician. That perspective often shapes creative, personalized approaches for neurodivergent clients and others who benefit from different ways of thinking and communicating.
Her toolbox includes client-centered conversations, cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical behavior skills, mindfulness practices, and the Gottman Method for relationship work. In sessions she helps people set small, achievable goals, practice new skills, and make steady progress through change.
If you are navigating grief, parenting stress, identity questions, or workplace strain, she aims to help you move forward one step at a time.
Therapeutic approaches for online care and relationship work
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's priorities. It helps people feel heard and figure out their own solutions by using the therapist's curiosity and empathy as a guide. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills people can use to change patterns that cause distress. The Gottman Method offers structured ways to improve communication and reduce conflict in relationships by practicing new interaction skills and shared problem solving.Finding the right combination of methods is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to choose approaches that match a person's goals, needs, and preferences. This means trying out techniques together, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face-to-face from different locations, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging can help with ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work through life changes.
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Experience
9+ years
Licensed in
Connecticut
Languages
English