About Courtney
Courtney Holbrook is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, and trauma. She also supports people facing relationship and intimacy questions, grief, career strain, and self-esteem struggles. Her work includes attention to issues like LGBT concerns, bipolar mood challenges, and compassion fatigue.
Courtney keeps sessions simple and direct. She listens first to understand what matters most to each person. Then she and the client set small, practical goals to try between meetings.
Background and approach
That approach helps people see what works and adjust as they go. Her style is collaborative and grounded in real-life tools. She uses techniques drawn from cognitive behavioral approaches and mindfulness to help manage thoughts and stress.
Emotion-focused methods and skills from dialectical behavior ideas are used when emotions feel overwhelming or relationships are stuck. Courtney brings ten years of professional experience in Illinois to her practice. As an LCSW she focuses on helping people tell their story and build coping skills that fit daily life.
Sessions aim to be a place to sort through hard decisions and plan clear next steps. People come to her when they feel stuck, exhausted, or unsure where to turn. She aims to make therapy feel manageable and practical.
The work is paced to each person's needs and life demands.
How approaches like CBT and mindfulness work online
Client-centered work puts the person’s goals first and focuses on listening closely to what matters. Online sessions let the therapist and client talk through priorities and craft small steps that fit daily life.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and actions affect mood. In remote sessions a therapist helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and practices new ways of responding between meetings, which suits people dealing with anxiety, depression, or stress.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple ways to notice the present moment and reduce reactivity. Practicing short mindfulness exercises during video or phone sessions can help with emotional regulation and chronic stress.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust plans based on what helps. Clients and the therapist decide together which methods fit each person’s needs and preferences.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work when video isn’t possible or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, skill practice, or maintaining momentum between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English