About Courtney
Courtney Holbrook is a licensed clinical social worker in Illinois with 10 years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and grief. She supports those dealing with relationship and intimacy challenges, LGBT issues, career strain, and coping with life changes. Her first aim is to listen and help clients find practical next steps when they feel stuck.
Courtney uses a client-centered style that puts each person's goals first.
How Courtney works
She works alongside clients to clarify what matters and to build skills that fit daily life. Sessions are conversational and focused on small, doable changes rather than dense theory. Her approach draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and try new patterns.
She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy for managing strong emotions and mindfulness practices to increase present-moment awareness. Courtney is comfortable addressing more complicated concerns like trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, chronic illness, and codependency. She also helps people navigate adoption and foster care histories, attachment issues, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, and body image worries.
Clients can expect straightforward feedback, practical coping tools, and a collaborative plan that evolves over time. She aims to create a respectful space where people can tell their story and work toward clearer next steps. Her Illinois license is listed as LCSW.
Sessions are offered in English and arranged around each person's schedule and needs.
Courtney lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Courtney works with
The areas below are the ones Courtney selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches shape online care
Courtney commonly draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy in her online work. CBT helps people identify unhelpful thought patterns and try different behaviors to reduce stress and depression. DBT offers concrete strategies for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and reducing impulsive reactions.She practices in a collaborative way. Finding the right approach is part of the process and she will work with each client to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. That collaboration helps shape session pace, homework, and which tools are emphasized.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video works well for deeper conversations that benefit from visual cues. Phone sessions can fit shorter check-ins or people with limited bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging allow frequent, brief check-ins and can make it easier to keep momentum between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to schedule work around busy days and varying routines.
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