New to Grow
Viola Burt is a Licensed Professional Counselor with extensive experience supporting individuals through trauma, grief, and life transitions. She is passionate about creating a safe and compassionate therapeutic space where clients can explore their experiences and build resilience. Viola integrates trauma-informed and evidence-based approaches to help clients develop coping skills, foster healing, and work toward meaningful personal growth.Viola believe that you grow through what you go through but you dont have to do it alone .
The first session begins with Viola checking in with the client about current events or concerns since the intake session. This brief check-in helps establish rapport and assess the client’s present needs. The session then transitions to reviewing the goals and objectives identified during intake, allowing both counselor and client to clarify priorities and collaboratively begin the therapeutic process together.
Viola’s strengths include empathy, active listening, and the ability to create a safe, supportive therapeutic environment. She uses a trauma-informed and client-centered approach to help clients feel heard and understood. Viola is skilled in applying evidence-based practices such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, while maintaining cultural sensitivity and collaborating with clients to support resilience, healing, and personal growth.
Fortitude Counseling approaches trauma work from a strength-based, healing-centered perspective, emphasizing resilience and the capacity for recovery. Counselors provide safe, supportive, and trauma-informed care that empowers clients in their healing journey. Using evidence-based approaches such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, therapists help individuals process trauma, build coping skills, and restore emotional well-being at a client-centered pace.
Integrative
I take a client centered approach to chosing the modalities with clients
EMDR
I use EMDR as a modality to help clients process unprocessed experiences
Child Parent Psychotherapy
I used Child parent psychotherapy to help parents and children understand each other
Faith based therapy
I used faith-based therapy when the client requested it, and I have a faith-based approach. This is driven by the client to express interest in faith-based counseling