About Courtney
Courtney Szabo offers straightforward, client-centered care that helps people handle stress, anxiety, and life transitions. She is an Ohio LISW with six years of experience and focuses on practical support for parenting challenges, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy concerns, and workplace strain. Her style is direct, caring, and focused on the person in front of her.
Courtney prefers to meet people where they are. She believes folks make the most progress when they feel comfortable, so she uses clear, respectful conversations to guide sessions.
How Courtney works
She helps clients learn skills to manage emotions, thoughts, and behaviors in everyday situations. Her work blends Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Trauma-Focused approaches. She draws on mindfulness and solution-focused tools as needed.
The mix is chosen to match each person’s goals rather than following a single script. Sessions often include practical education, behavior-focused strategies, and moments to reflect on difficult experiences. For people coping with guilt, shame, or family of origin problems, she aims to create steps that are doable between visits.
Coaching elements are offered when clients want concrete goal-setting around career or self-esteem. Courtney values openness about the therapy process. She explains options, checks in about progress, and adjusts the plan as needed.
Her aim is to help people feel more able to handle day-to-day demands and to move toward the changes they want. Background and approach details are available during an initial match and intake conversation.
Courtney lists 5 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LISW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
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Online support options
How her approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy means the conversation begins with each person’s priorities and moves at their pace. This approach focuses on listening, building trust, and shaping sessions around what the client wants to work on, such as parenting stress or relationship concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) provides clear, practical strategies for changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and workplace stress because it breaks problems into small, manageable steps and practices to try between sessions.
Trauma-Focused Therapy focuses on safety and gradual processing of difficult experiences. It offers techniques to reduce the hold of traumatic memories and build coping skills for triggers and emotional distress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options, try methods that fit the client's goals, and adjust plans based on progress and preferences. That collaborative process helps determine whether more skills-based CBT, gentle trauma work, or a client-centered path is best.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, chat is useful for quick check-ins, and messaging fits short updates or flexible scheduling. These formats make therapy easier to fit into busy lives and support ongoing momentum between sessions.
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