About Nanesha
Dr. Nanesha Courtney is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 25 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and pain. She uses straightforward, practical methods and listens for what each person needs.
Many clients come for help with work stress, relationship strain, grief, and trauma-related concerns. Dr. Courtney blends client-centered conversations with cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness.
She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for trauma work when appropriate.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on finding coping strategies that fit each person’s life and daily routines. Her background includes long experience with chronic pain, medical conditions, and vocational challenges. She has worked with people facing bipolar symptoms, substance-related stress, and complicated grief.
That experience informs a practical approach to symptom management and life changes. Dr. Courtney practices under a Washington LMHC credential and holds a deep familiarity with caregiving and end-of-life concerns.
She supports people dealing with cancer, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and hospice-related decisions as part of her broader focus areas. Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, and she responds to messages during regular weekday hours. Her style is collaborative: she helps people identify needs, set realistic goals, and try concrete steps that build better coping over time.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Client-centered work focuses on listening and shaping sessions around what matters most to the client. This approach helps people feel heard and guides goal-setting that fits their life and values.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood and stress. It teaches practical strategies for changing unhelpful thinking patterns and building new habits, which can reduce anxiety and improve day-to-day functioning.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is used for trauma-related symptoms and for people who feel stuck by past events. In session, the therapist helps the client process distressing memories while developing stronger coping responses.
Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which methods to try based on their goals and preferences. Sessions adapt over time as progress is made or needs change.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or caregiving responsibilities. Video calls let therapists see nonverbal cues and run interactive exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is an issue. Live chat and text messaging provide shorter check-ins, between-session support, and a way to keep momentum during a workday.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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