About Courtney
Courtney Chandler is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Georgia who helps people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, bipolar symptoms, and struggles with anger or addictive behaviors. She commonly works with adolescents and adults and aims to create a calm, direct space where people can talk about what feels hard.
Her style is warm and straightforward, so conversations stay practical and focused on real-life change. Courtney blends several therapy approaches to match each person's needs.
Background and approach
She uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people notice what matters to them and take committed steps toward those values. She draws on attachment-based perspectives when relationship patterns and early bonds shape current struggles. Cognitive behavioral ideas and dialectical behavior skills are added when managing thoughts, emotions, and strong reactions is needed.
Her background includes a master's degree in clinical mental health counseling and ten years of clinical work. She has continued education in marriage and family systems, addictions, trauma, and play therapy, and she considers a client's life context when planning care. That means looking at work, relationships, health, and routines together rather than focusing on symptoms alone.
Courtney is comfortable helping with parenting concerns, grief, self-esteem, body image, career shifts, caregiving stress, and coping with chronic illness. She also addresses less commonly discussed areas like kink and alternative sexual cultures with respect and curiosity. Outside the therapy room she enjoys time outdoors, music, and animals.
If someone prefers clear, practical conversations with emotional depth, Courtney offers a blend of skill-building and values-focused work to support change.
Online approaches that meet you where you are
Courtney often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify what they value and take concrete steps toward those goals. ACT focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck and building actions that matter in day-to-day life.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and emotional reactions. This approach is useful when trust, closeness, or repeated relationship cycles are a central concern. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify and shift unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which can reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they tailor a mix of techniques and priorities so sessions match the client’s needs rather than following a single formula.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people work face-to-face when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits a break. Live chat or text messaging can support ongoing reflection between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep continuity and fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English