Dawn Burton

LCSW, 25 years of experience
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Hello, meet Dr. Dawn D. Burton, a psychotherapist with psychoeducation and biopsychosocial-spiritual clinical counseling expertise to promote acceptance and quality of life for older adults, children, and families across the lifespan. As a licensed clinical social worker, she employs strategies that promote life skills and coping amid crisis and life disturbances with a specialization in chronic conditions, terminal disease, and end-of-life decision making. With over 25 years of social work expertise in healthcare and nonprofit management, Burton is credited for her leadership in community organizing chronic disease awareness, health fairs, and nonprofit organizational programming to bridge service gaps affecting persons impacted by chronic disease. Burton holds a bachelor's degree in public relations communications from Saint Augustine's College, a master's degree in social work from Virginia Commonwealth University, and with a doctorate in Organizational Leadership with emphasis in Healthcare Administration from Grand Canyon University, Burton is an adjunct professor for their School of Social Work Masters' program. Outside of her formal work, Burton and her husband enjoy philanthropy, ministry outreach efforts, camping and fishing.

Get to know me

In our first session together, here's what you can expect

Focused on getting to know you, the first session will be person-centered to learn more about you and what you hope to gain from psychotherapy. Clients can expect clinical homework that will help capture their goals for therapy.

The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions

My strengths include the use of a down-to-earth, transparent, innovative-approach that values safety and confidentiality.

The clients I'm best positioned to serve

I am well positioned to work with males, females, seniors, adolescents, and adults that identify across the sex/gender spectrum from gay to straight and the religious spectrum of spiritual to atheist.

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Location
Offers in-person in 2600 Bus Park Dr, Rocky Mount, NC 27804Virtual
My treatment methods

Psychoeducation

With over 17 years of experience helping persons living with chronic and terminal conditions, Dr. Burton employs counseling techniques that promote quality of life and self-acceptance across the lifespan.

Christian Counseling

Ordained an evangelist in the Apostolic denomination of Christianity since 2011, Dr. Burton embraces Biblical concepts to promote therapeutic goals without respect of persons across religious, racial, gender, economic, sexual orientation, age, ability, or cultural differences.

Strength-Based

Reframing techniques to combat apathy, ambivalence, and intrusive thoughts, Dr. Burton adopts strengths-based terminology via teach-back and roleplay strategies.

Eclectic

Approaching counseling sessions with a biopsychosocial-spiritual lens, Dr. Burton uses Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy techniques to promote commitment to change.

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12 ratings with written reviews

January 20, 2026

Dawn made me feel comfortable right off the bat. I was able to express my immediate concerns as well as delve into trauma from my childhood which might contribute to my codependency issues. This was my first session so i am looking forward to working with her.

Verified client, age 65+
Review shared after session 1 with Dawn

January 20, 2026

Really enjoyed our session with Dawn. We were able to get something tangible from her even on our first session.

Verified client, age 35-44
Review shared after session 1 with Dawn

October 20, 2025

Ms. Burton was definitely AMAZING she listens and understands a WHOLE lot, highly recommended!

Verified client, age 25-34
Review shared after session 1 with Dawn