About Courtney
Courtney Jackson Matthews offers direct, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, or life changes. She is a licensed clinical social worker in Louisiana with five years of experience. She aims to help clients build self-love, steady their mood, and find clearer ways to move forward.
Courtney focuses on day-to-day tools that reduce panic, manage worry, and lessen feelings of isolation. She helps people who struggle with addictive patterns, low self-esteem, or social anxiety by building skills and small routines that fit into real life.
Background and approach
Conversations are straightforward and paced to each person’s needs. She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address depression, panic attacks, and communication problems. Sessions cover practical coping strategies, examining control issues, and unpacking guilt or shame.
The work is collaborative and tailored to what a client wants to change. Courtney also brings cultural awareness to her practice and centers affirming care for LGBTQ+ people and communities of color. That perspective helps when exploring life purpose, loneliness, or strained relationships.
Her approach combines compassion with clear, achievable steps. People who choose her often want structure alongside empathy: checking patterns, trying new behaviors, and tracking what helps. As an LCSW (licensed clinical social worker), she uses her training to support steady progress over time.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Courtney uses evidence-based techniques that focus on clear skills and change in everyday life. One common approach emphasizes coping skills for anxiety and panic - teaching breathing, grounding, and stepwise exposure to reduce avoidance. These techniques help people manage sudden panic and lessen worry over time.Another approach centers on building self-worth and reducing shame through guided reflection and behavioral experiments. This method helps people try new actions that challenge negative self-beliefs and increase self-compassion. Both approaches translate well to conversations by video or phone because they focus on concrete practices you can use between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Courtney will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, comfort level, and day-to-day constraints. She adjusts pacing and homework based on what feels useful and achievable for the individual.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone needs less bandwidth, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and try approaches in real time.
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- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English