About Marika
Marika Courtney is a licensed professional clinical counselor with ten years of practice in Ohio. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, or life changes. Her style is calm and straightforward, aimed at making therapy feel doable for busy parents and professionals.
She uses a client-centered approach that keeps conversations grounded in what matters most to each person. Sessions focus on practical skills like managing strong emotions, improving communication, and making choices that match personal values.
Background and approach
Marika pays attention to how past attachments and experiences shape current reactions and relationships. People come to her for a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, parenting strain, career stress, and coping with transitions. She also supports issues such as abandonment, caregiving stress, codependency, substance use concerns, and separation or divorce.
The work often blends skill practice, reflection, and real-world problem solving. Marika draws on several therapeutic approaches to match what a person needs in the moment. She explains techniques plainly and helps clients try out new ways of coping between sessions.
Progress is usually steady when people practice the tools they learn. Her tone in sessions is respectful and warm, with an emphasis on collaboration. New clients can expect clear talk, focused goals, and step-by-step plans to feel more in control and make everyday life more manageable.
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and making meaningful life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and trying new behaviors to reduce distress and improve coping with everyday problems.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships affect current patterns and helps people build healthier ways of relating and feeling safe in relationships. These approaches are used in a collaborative way so the therapist and client decide together which methods fit best for the concern at hand.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face work on skills and emotion-focused exercises. Phone sessions or live chat can be shorter check-ins or work when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection and quick coaching between sessions. This range of formats gives flexibility while keeping the focus on real skills and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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