Tierra Burns, LCSW, is a distinguished Therapist and Luxury Mental Wellness Expert with extensive experience working with high performers, empowering elite professionals to excel without sacrificing mental wellness. As the author of "Bombarding Heaven in Unity: A Guided Prayer Book for Healing" Tierra integrates clinical expertise, strategic consulting, and faith-based leadership to support high performers in navigating burnout, anxiety, perfectionism, imposter syndrome, and performance pressure.
Tierra redefines therapy as the ultimate luxury—an exclusive space where elite minds can cultivate emotional resilience, establish firm boundaries, and prioritize mental growth in a world that demands constant performance. She curates personalized mental wellness strategies, providing high-performing CEOs, entrepreneurs, elite athletes, military personnel, law and medical professionals, and creatives with the support needed to maintain success without compromising their mental health.
With over a decade of clinical experience, Tierra delivers transformative solutions through one-on-one therapy, executive coaching, and bespoke wellness plans. She specializes in stress management, emotional resilience, and strategic mental performance. Tierra leads exclusive workshops, retreats, and seminars tailored for teams and organizations, fostering environments where high performers can develop resilience, enhance team dynamics, and sustain peak performance.
Tierra's diverse professional journey includes roles as a licensed therapist for private practices and community agencies, public school systems, Veteran's Administration hospital, the United States Army, and a Professor of Africana Studies at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC), where she bridges Black Politics and Black Religion. As the former Pastor of Friendship African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) in Ramseur, North Carolina, an ordained minister, and a proud U.S. Army Veteran, she combines leadership, discipline, and compassion in all her work. Her comprehensive expertise extends to assisting kids and teens with managing behaviors, anxiety, and high stress/pressure environments. Tierra's clinical specialties include childhood trauma, racial trauma, anxiety, depression and career/transitioning coaching and more.
Academically accomplished, Tierra holds dual Bachelor's degrees in Political Science and English from North Carolina Central University (NCCU), a Master of Social Work from the University of Southern California (USC), a Master of Divinity from Fuller Theological Seminary, and a Master of Political Science from Howard University. She has also completed a 40-hour Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Advocacy Program and interned with Congressman Mel Watt through the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. A dynamic speaker and consultant, Tierra has led workshops on teen dating abuse with Break the Cycle, presented on financial literacy with Junior Achievement, and facilitated exclusive seminars for high-performing teams seeking mental clarity and sustainable success.
Tierra Burns is redefining luxury mental wellness by providing elite minds with exclusive tools to protect their mental wealth while achieving excellence. Her work is guided by the motto: "Luxury Care for Elite Minds—Because You Deserve the Best You."