About Catherine
Catherine Courtney is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Michigan with over 20 years of experience. She focuses on practical help for people dealing with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, career struggles, grief, and major life changes. Catherine aims to create a calm space where clients can speak honestly and be heard.
Her approach is straightforward and supportive. Sessions focus on identifying what feels stuck and building steps that fit everyday life.
How Catherine works
She helps people sort through relationship strain, family problems, and the emotional fallout from separation or divorce. Catherine also addresses issues like abandonment, codependency, isolation, and compassion fatigue. Work often includes looking at patterns that come from family of origin and learning ways to set boundaries and feel more confident.
She supports people facing caregiver stress, blended family challenges, hoarding concerns, and feelings of emptiness or shame. Practical coping skills are blended with conversations about values and goals. Catherine welcomes clients of different faith backgrounds and can bring a Christian perspective if that is preferred.
Her style is patient and encouraging, aimed at empowering people to take small, steady steps toward change. She believes finding a better balance and greater satisfaction is possible with focused work and support. Sessions are offered in formats that fit busy lives, including video, phone, live chat, and text messaging.
Catherine works with each person to choose the pace and methods that feel most useful.
What Catherine works with
The areas below are the ones Catherine selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions that fit your life
Evidence-based techniques are used to focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One common approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful patterns and replacing them with workable alternatives. This helps with anxiety, low self-esteem, and relationship difficulties by teaching new ways to respond to stressful situations. Another approach centers on coping skills and problem-solving. It breaks larger issues into small, manageable steps and teaches concrete tools for daily life. This is useful for career stress, grief, caregiver strain, and major life transitions. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped in the past. Together they will try strategies and adjust the focus so the work feels relevant and realistic. Online therapy brings practical benefits for busy people. Video calls let you have a full conversation and see facial cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it possible to send thoughts between sessions and fit support into a busy day. These remote options make it simpler to keep sessions consistent and to pick the format that fits work, family, and other commitments.Start online instead of waiting
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