- 50 years experience
- Focus on self esteem
- Practical goal setting
About Burton
Burton "Burt" Swaim is a licensed clinical social worker with five decades of practice. He focuses on helping people regain confidence and rebuild self esteem while they work through anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and the fallout of addiction. Burt aims to make the first steps feel manageable and realistic for someone feeling stuck.
He describes therapy as a joint effort where clients set goals and take an active role in progress. Sessions often center on identifying personal strengths and challenging limiting beliefs that get in the way of growth. Burt emphasizes straightforward goal setting, practical motivation strategies, and repeated small steps toward lasting change.
His background includes long experience with alcohol and drug recovery efforts and work on intimacy and relationship concerns connected to those struggles. He has also supported people through loss, trauma, anger, and life transitions, and has a particular interest in aging and end-of-life counseling. Those experiences inform his approach to building resilience and meaning.
Burt uses Client-Centered Therapy to stay attuned to each person's concerns and to create a nonjudgmental space for honest conversation. He also applies Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Existential Therapy helps when people are questioning life purpose or seeking deeper personal meaning.
Across his career he has contributed to recovery-focused media and education, including documentary work and guest faculty roles. He balances clinical practice with life experience to support people aiming for clearer goals, renewed motivation, and greater self-worth.
He describes therapy as a joint effort where clients set goals and take an active role in progress. Sessions often center on identifying personal strengths and challenging limiting beliefs that get in the way of growth. Burt emphasizes straightforward goal setting, practical motivation strategies, and repeated small steps toward lasting change.
His background includes long experience with alcohol and drug recovery efforts and work on intimacy and relationship concerns connected to those struggles. He has also supported people through loss, trauma, anger, and life transitions, and has a particular interest in aging and end-of-life counseling. Those experiences inform his approach to building resilience and meaning.
Burt uses Client-Centered Therapy to stay attuned to each person's concerns and to create a nonjudgmental space for honest conversation. He also applies Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Existential Therapy helps when people are questioning life purpose or seeking deeper personal meaning.
Across his career he has contributed to recovery-focused media and education, including documentary work and guest faculty roles. He balances clinical practice with life experience to support people aiming for clearer goals, renewed motivation, and greater self-worth.