About Courtney
Courtney Szabo is a licensed independent social worker (LISW) who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She talks plainly and directly while offering steady support. Parents and adults often seek her when life changes feel overwhelming.
She focuses on practical skills people can use right away. Sessions include talking through thoughts and behaviors, learning coping tools, and practicing simple mindfulness. The goal is to make everyday life feel more manageable.
Background and approach
Courtney has six years of clinical experience working with survivors of trauma and abuse, depression, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and career transitions. She pays attention to family of origin issues, communication problems, guilt and shame, and compassion fatigue. Her style is client-centered and respectful.
That means she listens first and tailors the plan to each person. She uses methods from cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, solution-focused work, and trauma-focused approaches to match the problem at hand. Sessions move at a practical pace.
Courtney offers clear feedback and homework you can try between meetings. She aims to help people leave sessions with one or two concrete steps to use in daily life. People who come to her for parenting support or pregnancy and childbirth concerns will find focused, down-to-earth guidance.
She also helps with workplace stress, young adult transitions, and intimacy-related issues. All work is done in English and through online formats in Ohio.
How Courtney’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy puts the person’s goals first and starts with listening to what matters most. In practice this means the therapist asks about immediate concerns, preferences, and what a useful next step looks like, then shapes sessions around those priorities.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thought and behavior patterns that keep problems going. Online CBT sessions often include short exercises, worksheets, and homework tasks to practice between meetings, which helps with anxiety, depression, and workplace stress.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and increase calm. These short practices are easy to try during a video call or as brief audio exercises between sessions, and they can help with stress, parenting strain, and self-esteem concerns.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust over time based on what helps. Clients and therapist work together to pick tools that feel useful and realistic for daily life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet - video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when video is not ideal, and live chat or text messaging for quick check-ins or shorter updates. This variety makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, manage follow-up between sessions, and continue work during life transitions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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