Sheila Burns

Refreshing Waters Counseling & Consulting, led by Sheila Burns, LPC, is built on a simple conviction: healing becomes possible when a person is held in both spirit and mind at once. Sheila works as a faith-integrated therapist and coach, weaving biblical wisdom together with evidence-based clinical practice — CBT, DBT, EMDR, Motivational Interviewing, and mindfulness — so that no part of who someone is gets left out of the work. That integration isn’t decorative; it shapes every session.

She works with individuals, couples, and families navigating anxiety, grief, trauma, burnout, and relationship breakdown. Many of her clients carry wounds that go back generations — or carry the particular ache of scrolling through a full feed of faces and still feeling completely unseen. Sheila also brings specialized focus to abuse recovery, including EMDR for sexual trauma and complex PTSD, alongside support for mood, personality, and psychotic disorders across the lifespan, from teenagers to the elderly.

Clients describe her as grounded, intuitive, and direct without being cold. She works online throughout Michigan, meeting people at the point where courage and exhaustion arrive together — and helping them find solid ground from there.