About Nanesha
Dr. Nanesha Courtney is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 25 years of clinical experience. She blends practical strategies with respectful listening to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, pain, and relationship concerns.
Dr. Courtney offers a calm, straightforward style that focuses on what helps in day-to-day life. She uses client-centered work to keep each session focused on the client's goals and priorities.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people change patterns of thought and behavior that get in the way.
How Nanesha works
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and mindfulness practices are used when trauma or persistent distress makes it hard to move forward. Dr. Courtney has long experience helping people cope with chronic pain, illness, caregiver strain, and major life changes.
She also supports people facing grief, intimacy-related concerns, parenting stress, career transitions, and compassion fatigue. Her work addresses both mental health conditions like bipolar disorder and practical issues such as communication and commitment problems. Sessions can include coaching-style problem solving, motivational interviewing to build readiness for change, and short-term solution-focused plans when a quick reset is needed.
Clients learn concrete coping strategies they can use between sessions, from mindfulness exercises to behavioral experiments. She practices as an LMHC licensed in Washington and conducts sessions in English. Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to the therapist's availability.
Nanesha lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Nanesha works with
The areas below are the ones Nanesha 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
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Washington |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist. Sessions emphasize listening and helping clients set their own goals, so online meetings center on what the client wants to change and how they prefer to work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical steps to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In online sessions this often includes setting small experiments, tracking reactions, and reviewing progress together. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is used for trauma-related distress; when appropriate, portions of EMDR can be adapted to an online format with clear pacing and preparation.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options, try techniques, and adjust plans based on goals and comfort. Clients help choose whether to focus on short-term problem solving, skill-building with CBT, trauma work, or a mix of methods that fit their needs.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging supports brief updates and ongoing coaching between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical schedules while keeping treatment focused and goal-directed.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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