About Courtney
Courtney Holbrook is an LCSW based in Illinois who supports people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
She also addresses issues such as bipolar symptoms, career strain, coping with life changes, and a wide range of related challenges including abandonment, attachment concerns, body image, chronic illness and pain, caregiving stress, and communication or control difficulties.
With ten years of professional experience, she draws on a broad clinical toolkit to help clients navigate complex emotional and practical problems. Her practice emphasizes a client-centered, holistic stance that prioritizes each person’s unique story and strengths.
Courtney uses evidence-informed methods such as cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, emotionally focused therapy, and mindfulness practices to tailor interventions to individual goals. She values collaboration and respects the courage it takes to seek support, offering attentive listening and practical strategies to help people clarify their needs and build resilience.
Counseling with Courtney aims to create a compassionate space where clients can explore patterns, develop coping skills, and move toward healthier functioning. Her approach balances empathy with structured techniques so sessions can address immediate concerns while working toward longer-term change.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Courtney commonly integrates cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness therapy into online sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress. Mindfulness therapy teaches skills to increase present-moment awareness and emotional regulation, which can be helpful for stress, trauma responses, and coping with chronic health concerns.
Finding the right approach is treated as a collaborative process. The therapist works with clients to review goals, preferences, and what has or has not helped in the past, then adapts techniques from different methods to suit the individual’s needs and comfort level.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility for scheduling and communication style. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care during life transitions or busy schedules, and allow licensed professionals to deliver structured interventions, skills practice, and supportive check-ins from wherever the client is located in Illinois.
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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