Trauma Therapist and Sports Social Worker, Tierra Burns, MSW, LCSW, is the author of "Bombarding Heaven in Unity: A Guided Prayer Book for Healing," a licensed therapist, school counselor, Professor in Africana Studies (merging Black Politics & Black Religion) at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC), the Pastor of Friendship African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) in Ramseur, North Carolina, and a Veteran of the United States Army. She has over 10 years of clinical experience and worked with all ages.
Every day she helps adolescents and adults heal, evolve, and revive by assisting them with the development of healthy boundaries, tools to build positive relationships, adopt healthy coping skills, and manage everyday stressors, mental barriers and life traumas. She has uniquely helped middle and high school students and college athletes, military personnel, and Veterans manage the pressure to perform, transitions, build resiliency, eliminate survivors and players guilt, and balance life demands. Burns has a unique way of assisting parents by creating specific plans to modify behavioral challenges, provide evidence-based interventions and parenting skills. She specializes in childhood trauma, racial trauma, abuse, and emotional trauma.
Burns earned her Bachelors of Political Science and a Bachelors of English at North Carolina Central University (NCCU), Masters of Social Work at the University of Southern California (USC), Masters of Divinity at Fuller Theological Seminary and a Masters of Political Science at Howard University. She completed a 40 hour Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault advocacy program, numerous community service events and leadership workshops, and interned with Congressmen Mel Watt through the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. Through Break the Cycle Organizations, she led workshops on teen dating abuse and presented on financial literacy with the Junior Achievement Organization. Burns live by the motto, "Live to Inspire, Dare to Dream, and Hope for Healing."
Every day she helps adolescents and adults heal, evolve, and revive by assisting them with the development of healthy boundaries, tools to build positive relationships, adopt healthy coping skills, and manage everyday stressors, mental barriers and life traumas. She has uniquely helped middle and high school students and college athletes, military personnel, and Veterans manage the pressure to perform, transitions, build resiliency, eliminate survivors and players guilt, and balance life demands. Burns has a unique way of assisting parents by creating specific plans to modify behavioral challenges, provide evidence-based interventions and parenting skills. She specializes in childhood trauma, racial trauma, abuse, and emotional trauma.
Burns earned her Bachelors of Political Science and a Bachelors of English at North Carolina Central University (NCCU), Masters of Social Work at the University of Southern California (USC), Masters of Divinity at Fuller Theological Seminary and a Masters of Political Science at Howard University. She completed a 40 hour Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault advocacy program, numerous community service events and leadership workshops, and interned with Congressmen Mel Watt through the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. Through Break the Cycle Organizations, she led workshops on teen dating abuse and presented on financial literacy with the Junior Achievement Organization. Burns live by the motto, "Live to Inspire, Dare to Dream, and Hope for Healing."