About Courtney
Courtney Burrus is a licensed professional counselor who helps people handle stress, anxiety, relationship strains, and trauma. She works with adults who need practical tools and steady support during hard times. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping people make small changes that add up.
She uses approaches that focus on the person and their strengths. That means conversations center on what matters most to the client and on building skills they can use day to day.
Background and approach
She also draws from cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thoughts and replace them with clearer thinking. Courtney pays attention to how people relate to themselves and others. Issues like attachment, abandonment, codependency, and communication problems are part of the work she does.
She also supports people dealing with grief, chronic illness, body image, and addiction concerns. Over a dozen years in practice have given her experience with many life transitions. She helps clients facing parenting stress, workplace pressure, commitment questions, and recovery from separation or loss.
Sessions aim to clarify goals and try practical steps between meetings. Courtney combines a solutions-focused mindset with internal family systems ideas to help clients understand inner parts and shift habits. People who come to her often want clearer boundaries, better self-esteem, or relief from ongoing worry.
She practices in Texas and conducts sessions in English.
Approach and options for online therapy
Courtney uses client-centered therapy to focus conversations on the person's priorities and strengths, helping them feel heard and understood while deciding next steps. Cognitive behavioral therapy is also used to identify unhelpful thought patterns and practice concrete behavior changes that reduce anxiety and improve mood.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the client to match methods to goals, trying short experiments and adjusting based on what helps most. Clients set priorities and explore which combination of techniques feels most useful for their situation.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling flexible. Video calls are useful for deeper conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, quick coaching, or ongoing accountability between meetings. These formats make it easier to keep consistent momentum while juggling work, parenting, or health needs.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English