About Courtney
Courtney Kempker is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Missouri. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with relationship strain, trauma, parenting stress, anxiety, grief, and changes in life. Her approach is warm and straightforward, aimed at making hard conversations easier to have.
Courtney has about four years of experience working with people impacted by developmental trauma. She also supports adults facing life transitions like leaving college, starting a new job, moving, or adjusting to parenthood.
How Courtney works
Sessions are practical and goal-oriented, with attention to how past experiences shape present feelings and choices. She uses attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships affect emotions and behavior. Client-centered methods guide people to find their own answers while the therapist listens and reflects what matters most.
Trauma-focused work helps break down overwhelming memories into manageable pieces so clients can move forward. Courtney is invested in learning new ways to help people heal, and she studies interventions aimed at integrating traumatic experiences. Her background includes work with youth and families and tele-mental health practice.
She describes therapy in plain language and aims to make therapy feel doable for busy lives. Her training and everyday practice emphasize cultural awareness and responsiveness. People who prefer clear explanations and collaborative planning often find her style useful.
Courtney meets clients where they are and helps them build steady steps toward change.
Courtney lists 3 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.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches guide online work
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape emotions and behavior. In online sessions this helps people understand their reactions in close relationships and build safer ways of connecting. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience and choices, with the therapist offering empathy and reflection rather than instructions; this is useful for people who need a space to make their own decisions. Trauma-Focused Therapy breaks traumatic experiences into manageable pieces and teaches skills to reduce emotional overwhelm, which can help with symptoms from past abuse or developmental trauma.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That can mean combining elements from different approaches and adjusting over time as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face-to-face when visual cues help, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a short break, live chat allows quick check-ins, and text-based messaging can support ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule regular work and maintain progress when life is busy.
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