About Courtney
Courtney Strong-Gurr is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Arizona who helps people manage stress, anxiety, and the effects of trauma and abuse. She also supports those coping with addictions, LGBT-related concerns, depression, and relationship struggles. Her approach aims to make it easier to take the first steps toward change.
Courtney keeps sessions simple and direct. She creates a nonjudgmental space where people can speak honestly about thoughts and feelings.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on practical steps people can try between sessions. She emphasizes encouragement and realistic goal-setting. Therapy draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills can help with emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Over a decade of work in Arizona gives Courtney experience with a wide range of concerns.
She pays attention to the whole person, including issues like sleep, eating, career stress, and caregiver strain. She also supports people facing grief, identity questions, and life transitions. Courtney frames therapy as a partnership.
She helps people find what works for them and adjusts plans as needs change. The goal is steady progress toward a more manageable and satisfying life.
How her approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships affect current patterns. Online sessions use conversation and reflection to identify relationship patterns that lead to anxiety or conflict, then practice new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In remote sessions, CBT involves setting small experiments, tracking thoughts and moods, and using practical exercises between appointments. Courtney treats choosing methods as a team effort. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then try approaches together and adjust as needed. Online therapy with her offers flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face work when visual cues help. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or quiet time are limited. Live chat and text messaging suit brief check-ins, skill practice, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit counseling into a busy life and to keep consistent progress.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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