About Courtney
Courtney Ramsey is a licensed mental health counselor with twelve years of clinical experience in Washington. She focuses on helping people who are coping with stress, anxiety, trauma, and depression. She aims to meet people where they are and create a practical plan together.
Courtney centers sessions on respectful, compassionate conversation. She adapts her approach to each person's needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan. That can mean shorter practical strategies one week and deeper processing the next.
Background and approach
Her toolbox includes client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, EMDR methods, and mindfulness practices. She pulls from these to address things like panic, social anxiety, sleep trouble, and trauma reactions. Courtney also supports people dealing with relationship strain, grief, addictions, career stress, and changes that feel overwhelming.
She pays attention to patterns such as impulsivity, isolation, or low self-esteem and helps people build skills to manage them. Sessions are practical and conversational. People can expect a mix of skill teaching, reflective talk, and goal-focused planning.
The aim is to help someone feel more able to handle day-to-day stress and move toward clearer next steps.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and shaping sessions around the person's concerns. It emphasizes empathy and collaboration so the therapist follows the person's lead and supports their goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, uses straightforward tools to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and stress.Courtney will work with each person to find which approach or combination fits best. That decision is collaborative: she reviews goals, discusses options like CBT or mindfulness, and adjusts methods as progress is made. The process is meant to match strategies to what feels most helpful for day-to-day life.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is useful for more in-depth work and teaching skills visually. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging suit brief check-ins, skill reminders, or people who prefer writing between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work during life transitions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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