Savannah Burke

I pretty much grew up in the counseling world because my mother is a therapist as well, so I knew eventually I would always be a therapist at some point. My undergraduate is in criminal justice, so I have a criminal justice background, but therapy has always been my passion. Back in 2003, I had taken the GRE and was accepted into Southern Methodist University in Dallas, but I chose at that point to become a mother because in my head, I had a lifetime to become a counselor but a limited time to become a mother. Putting my career on the back burner was easily the best thing I've ever done because I am a very proud mama. My husband and I moved to the Houston area after Hurricane Katrina from the New Orleans area, so we were really refugees, and I went into the oil and gas industry with my husband. After being laid off twice, my husband said 'that's it, you've been saying that you were gonna do this, you're gonna do this. What do you need from me?' He found that Lamar University did not require the GRE if you had a 3.0 or higher over the last 60 hours, and I am a very spiritual person, so I kept saying God led me to this. I had a 3.2 the last 60 hours, so I didn't have to take the GRE again, and I was getting a large enough severance that it paid for school. When it came time to do my internship, I had been told I needed to go to Kimberly Boyd Counseling Center, and I was sitting in a friend's vehicle in the parking lot facing a building literally 50 feet away or less, and I saw KBCCC written on the door and underneath it said Kimberly Boyd Counseling Center. I went 'oh my god, I get it, that's where I'm supposed to be,' and that's where I've been ever since. Kimberly is one of my biggest cheerleaders along with my mother and husband. Back in 2018, she had some life-changing events and found coaching, and she said she wanted to bring this coaching thing and offer it to everybody. She pulled us up the ladder right along with her, and that's how I got into coaching. I see clients starting around 10 o'clock in the morning to anywhere between 6 or 7 o'clock at night, and I provide supervision for two individuals. On Fridays I do coaching, and on Mondays I also do coaching in the afternoons. Being able to help people in both aspects of healing through therapy and growth through coaching is one of the most rewarding things I've ever been able to do to date.