About Courtney
Courtney Threats is a licensed independent clinical social worker (LICSW) with a decade of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She works with adults on issues like depression, addiction, trauma, and relationship strain. Her approach is straightforward and respectful, aimed at helping people feel more steady day to day.
Courtney believes clients know their own story and brings a collaborative style to sessions. She listens first, then helps people identify small, practical steps they can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize skills you can use right away to reduce worry and regain clearer thinking. Her background includes a range of settings where she supported people facing substance use, domestic violence, and attachment or abandonment concerns. That variety informs how she tailors support to each person’s situation.
She also draws on work with people who face first responder stress and issues connected to fatherhood. Therapy often blends short-term skill building with deeper work on patterns that keep stress and relationship problems stuck. Courtney uses evidence-informed methods aimed at awareness, acceptance, and action.
She helps clients notice what matters most, practice new responses, and build better communication habits. Sessions are offered in English and scheduled from Rhode Island. Courtney values clear goals and regular check-ins so progress can be adjusted as needs change.
If someone is ready to try a practical, steady approach to anxiety or life stress, she helps them map the next steps.
How therapy approaches translate to online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most and take action toward those values even when anxiety or difficult feelings are present. It focuses on noticing thoughts and choosing meaningful steps instead of fighting every worry. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical behavioral experiments to reduce anxiety and change patterns that fuel stress. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the person leads the pace and topics while the therapist offers reflection and support.Choosing an approach is a shared process. Courtney will work collaboratively to see which methods suit a person’s goals and day-to-day life. That may mean combining elements from multiple approaches and adjusting over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for people juggling busy schedules or limited travel time. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is low, and live chat or text-based messaging supports shorter check-ins or ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit consistent work on anxiety and stress into a regular routine while keeping the focus on progress and usable skills.
Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does Courtney address?
What is her therapy style like?
How much clinical experience does she have?
What are her credentials and where is she based?
Which languages are sessions offered in?
What formats are available for sessions?
How are fees and payment handled?
How do I begin working with her?
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Rhode Island
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.