Courtney Dunson, LPC

Courtney Dunson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people carrying the weight of past wounds and hard life changes. She works with stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, relationship and intimacy concerns, and grief. She also spends time with people facing eating and sleeping struggles, addictions, anger, low self-esteem, and parenting stress.

Courtney focuses on safety and stability before processing heavy memories. She helps clients build coping skills and emotional resilience in the nervous system first. This makes later work on traumatic material feel more manageable.

Her approach draws on Attachment-Based, Client-Centered, Cognitive Behavioral, Dialectical Behavior, and Motivational Interviewing ideas. In sessions she helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and habits, practice new ways of relating, and set small, realistic goals for change.

She pays attention to attachment wounds like abandonment, codependency, and communication problems. She also supports people dealing with obsessions and compulsions, body image and eating struggles, dissociation, shame, and the search for meaning.

Courtney aims to provide steady support and practical road maps for growth. She invites people who feel stuck or worn down to explore what’s under the symptoms. The work is paced to each person’s readiness, and focuses on returning to a clearer sense of self.

How therapeutic approaches guide online work

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how past relationships shape current patterns. It helps people notice how they connect, respond to rejection or abandonment, and build more secure ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and everyday habits that keep problems going. It helps people spot unhelpful thinking, test new behaviors, and practice small changes that reduce anxiety or depression.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will partner with each person to choose what feels most useful based on goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process and can shift as progress is made.

The biography did not list specific online session formats, so confirm available options before booking. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. It can reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and make participation possible when schedules or mobility are limited. Online work still uses the same therapeutic tools - building coping skills, practicing new responses, and working through attachment-related material - adapted to the way sessions are delivered.