About Courtney
Courtney Towne is an LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker) based in Oregon with seven years of direct clinical experience. She uses a strengths-focused, down-to-earth style and values openness and honesty in sessions. She often brings a sense of humor to the work when appropriate to help people through hard moments.
Her main approaches include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing. Courtney helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and anger by breaking problems into manageable steps.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with parenting challenges, relationship and communication problems, workplace strain, and questions about life purpose. Courtney has a history of supervising clinicians and overseeing counseling programs, which informs the practical structure she brings to sessions. She favors straightforward goals and gradual progress rather than quick fixes.
Sessions are conversational and focused on skills people can use between meetings. She pays attention to cultural context and the effects of prejudice and discrimination on well-being. Issues like guilt and shame, blended family dynamics, and women’s concerns are areas she often addresses in practical ways.
Her work aims to help people build clearer thinking patterns and stronger motivation to act on values that matter to them. People can expect collaborative planning, simple behavioral steps, and regular check-ins on progress. Courtney encourages questions and prefers to map out small, realistic changes that add up over time.
How therapy approaches work online
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments. It helps with anxiety, stress, and low mood by teaching simple skills to change thinking and behavior over time.Motivational Interviewing centers on building a person's own reasons for change. It uses open questions and reflective listening to strengthen motivation for goals like improving self-esteem, changing a habit, or handling life transitions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Courtney will collaborate with clients to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. The plan can change as progress is made and new priorities appear.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills visually. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when someone prefers typing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
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