About Courtney
Courtney Hoyman is a licensed psychotherapist based in Maryland. She brings 14 years of clinical experience and holds an MD and an LCSW-C. She focuses on practical help for people facing anxiety, stress, addictions, trauma, depression, and ADHD.
Courtney draws on years of work in behavioral health, substance use services, and foster care and adoption settings. She helps people name what feels overwhelming and build clearer plans to manage it.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on realistic, doable steps rather than long talks with no direction. She believes each person knows their story best and that strengths already exist to help navigate change. Conversations tend to prioritize what a person can try between sessions.
The aim is steady progress, not quick fixes. Courtney also addresses a wide range of related concerns like attachment issues, caregiver stress, body image, relationship and communication problems, chronic illness and pain, and family conflict. She supports people dealing with grief, separation, and addictive behaviors by working through patterns that keep problems repeating.
Her approach is straightforward and collaborative. She helps clients set goals, tries practical strategies in session, and checks what works. People who want clear direction, realistic homework, and a steady partner in problem solving often find this style helpful.
Evidence-based approaches and online care that fits your life
Courtney uses well-established, evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to each person's goals. One common approach focuses on practical skills training to reduce anxiety and stress - learning ways to manage worry, build routines, and break cycles that fuel anxious thinking. This helps when daily habits and reactions make stress feel out of control.Another technique she often draws on involves processing experiences related to trauma and loss in manageable steps. That approach slows things down, helps people make sense of painful memories, and builds coping tools so memories interfere less with daily life. Both approaches emphasize small, measurable changes people can try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Courtney will discuss options, try methods in session, and adjust based on what fits the client's needs, goals, and preferences. The plan evolves as progress is made and new challenges appear.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into workdays, care schedules, or travel, and let people choose shorter check-ins or longer sessions depending on need. The variety of formats supports consistent contact and flexible pacing while pursuing goals for anxiety, stress, addiction recovery, or trauma healing.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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