About Courtney
Courtney Strong-Gurr is an Arizona licensed professional counselor (LPC) with 10 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, and LGBT-related concerns. She creates a welcoming space where clients can speak honestly about feelings and life challenges. She encourages people to take the first steps toward change and offers steady support along the way.
Her approach is practical and person-centered. She starts by listening to what matters most to each client and tailoring the work to those goals.
How Courtney works
Sessions focus on small, workable steps that fit into everyday life rather than on long lectures or one-size-fits-all plans. Courtney combines tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to notice and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early connections affect current relationships.
Dialectical behavior therapy skills are offered when people need help regulating strong emotions and improving communication. She works with a wide range of concerns including depression, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, eating and sleeping problems, parenting stress, and career matters. Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, attachment issues, blended family challenges, body image, and substance use concerns.
Sessions are offered in English and are available via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Courtney aims to collaborate with each person to find a clear path forward and to support steady progress toward their goals.
Courtney lists 8 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
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Arizona |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Courtney uses client-centered therapy to focus on each person's unique experience. Sessions begin with careful listening and respect for the client’s goals, and the therapist guides conversations rather than giving orders. This approach helps people feel heard and understood as they decide what to change.She also draws from cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps identify thoughts and behaviors that maintain distress. CBT offers practical exercises and experiments people can try between sessions to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and change unhelpful patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Courtney collaborates with each person to choose techniques that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She will adjust methods over time based on what is helping and what is not, making the process a team effort.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions are done. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat fits brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using the approaches that help most.
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