About Courtney
Courtney Gum is a licensed Maryland clinician who helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, or depression. She uses clear language and steady support to help clients talk through problems and find manageable next steps. She approaches sessions with warmth and listening first.
That means time to share what feels hard, and then practical tools to try between meetings. Clients can expect conversations about thoughts, behaviors, and small changes that make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Courtney draws on methods like client-centered work, cognitive behavioral tools, mindfulness practices, and emotionally-focused ideas. She also uses motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques when they fit the goal. Those approaches help with focus and concentration concerns often seen with ADHD and with coping through loss and life transitions.
Her background includes eight years of professional experience and dual credentials as an MD and a licensed clinical social worker in Maryland. That combination informs her ability to notice both practical day-to-day struggles and emotional patterns that keep people stuck. Sessions often cover relationship and family stress, parenting challenges, career strain, and the effects of trauma or chronic illness.
She supports people facing caregiving burdens, fertility or cancer-related stress, and other major life changes. The work centers on finding small, doable steps toward more stable mood and clearer thinking. Starting therapy with Courtney involves a matching process and scheduling that fits each person.
She communicates plainly and focuses on what people need right now, rather than long lists of jargon.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience and building a trusting conversation. In online sessions that means the therapist follows the client's lead, listens closely, and helps clarify what matters most in day-to-day life.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks issues into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns. Online CBT can include worksheets, small experiments to try between sessions, and step-by-step plans to reduce anxiety or improve mood.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people recognize and name emotions and change unhelpful interaction patterns that keep problems going. Used for relationship stress and intimacy concerns, its focus on feeling and connection adapts well to conversation over video or phone.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan over time based on what makes sense for the client.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and interactive exercises, phone calls can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and messaging allows short check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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