About Catherine
Catherine Courtney is a Licensed Professional Counselor with twenty years of experience based in Michigan. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety, and those struggling with low self-esteem, career concerns, or big life changes. She speaks plain language and focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
She creates a calm space for people to talk through difficult feelings. Catherine aims to listen without judgment and to help clients name what they are facing.
Background and approach
She can draw on her Christian background when that is helpful and welcomed by the client. Her work addresses relationship struggles and family-related concerns, along with grief and depression. She also supports people coping with compassion fatigue, caregiver strain, and feelings of isolation or emptiness.
Catherine will help people break larger problems into manageable next steps. In sessions she emphasizes collaboration and steady progress. Conversations often include identifying triggers, building coping skills, and planning small experiments to try between meetings.
The goal is to leave each session with at least one concrete thing to practice. Catherine uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques adapted to each person’s needs. She encourages honesty and patience through change, and she partners with clients as they work toward more confidence, calmer days, and clearer decisions.
Approaches for Anxiety and Life Transitions Online
Catherine commonly uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on managing symptoms and building coping skills. One approach emphasizes identifying thought and behavior patterns that keep anxiety active, and then practicing new responses to reduce distress and increase confidence. This method helps with worry, avoidance, and persistent negative thinking.Another approach focuses on problem-solving and planning for life changes. It breaks big decisions into smaller steps, helps clarify values and goals, and uses short experiments to test new behaviors. This can be useful for career shifts, relationship decisions, and adjusting after loss.
Finding the right method is part of the process and is done together. The therapist will ask about needs, goals, and preferences and recommend approaches to try. Plans are adjusted over time based on what works best for the client.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video allows face-to-face conversation while phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or during a quick break. Live chat or messaging can be used for short check-ins, ongoing support, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep steady momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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