About Courtney
Courtney Holbrook is a licensed clinical social worker in Illinois who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, and trauma. She also supports those coping with grief, relationship or intimacy challenges, and struggles with self-esteem. Her approach aims to meet people where they are and find practical ways forward.
Courtney uses a client-centered style that treats each person as the expert on their own life. Sessions focus on listening, understanding what matters to the client, and building goals together.
Background and approach
She draws on cognitive behavioral strategies to spot unhelpful thinking and on dialectical methods to strengthen emotional regulation. Her work often blends emotion-focused techniques and mindfulness practices to help people notice feelings and respond differently. That mix is useful for people facing anxiety, addiction patterns, or trauma-related reactions.
Conversations move from understanding to skills that can be tried between sessions. With ten years of experience and an Illinois LCSW, Courtney aims for a straightforward, respectful tone in sessions. She pays attention to practical concerns like work stress, caregiving strain, chronic health challenges, and career decisions.
The emphasis is on steady progress rather than quick fixes. People who come to her can expect collaboration on goals, clear ideas for daily practice, and space to talk about hard topics. If someone wants help sorting through life changes, improving communication, or reducing persistent worry, she works with them to create a plan that fits their life.
Approaches that translate to online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person first, then building goals together based on the client's values and priorities. It is useful for people who want a respectful space to make sense of their struggles and decide what matters most.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors link together and teaches practical skills to change patterns. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress by giving specific tools to try between sessions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds skills for managing intense emotions and improving distress tolerance. Those skills can be helpful when worry, anger, or impulsive patterns get in the way of daily life.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences. That process may include trying techniques from different approaches to see what fits best.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversations and real-time skill coaching. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for ongoing check-ins, brief reflections, and reminders between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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