About Catherine
Catherine Courtney is a licensed professional counselor in Michigan with more than 20 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, or changes at work and home. She listens without judgment and aims to make conversations feel straightforward and manageable.
Her approach focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Catherine supports clients working through relationship strain, family problems, grief, and low self-esteem. She also addresses issues like caregiver stress, codependency, avoidance, and feelings of emptiness.
Background and approach
Catherine invites clients to talk about values and belief systems when relevant, and she is comfortable supporting those who prefer a counselor with a Christian background. She encourages clients to name what matters most and to use that as a guide for making decisions and steps forward. Sessions tend to be collaborative and goal-oriented.
Catherine helps clients identify small, reachable changes and practices they can try between meetings. She emphasizes steady progress rather than quick fixes. Over two decades of work has given her experience with grief, compassion fatigue, hoarding, and the strains that come from blended family situations and divorce or separation.
People looking for a calm, steady counselor who explains things plainly may find her style helpful.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Many of Catherine's methods center on practical, evidence-based techniques that teach skills people can use between sessions. One approach focuses on building concrete coping skills for stress and anxiety, such as identifying unhelpful thoughts, practicing new responses, and developing daily routines that reduce overwhelm. This helps when worry or stress interferes with work or family life.Another common thread is work around relationships and self-worth. Sessions often include exercises to improve communication, set healthy boundaries, and rebuild confidence after loss or separation. These methods are useful for people navigating breakups, blended family tensions, or feelings of emptiness and shame.
Finding the best therapeutic approach is a shared process. Catherine works with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. She explains options, checks in about what feels helpful, and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use face-to-face work without travel, phone sessions can be a good fit when video quality is limited, live chat and messaging suit quick check-ins or ongoing support. These options make scheduling easier and allow therapy to fit around work, caregiving, or other responsibilities.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English