About Courtney
Courtney Kempker is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Missouri who helps people struggling with relationship difficulties, trauma, parenting stress, anxiety, and life transitions. She works with adults who are facing changes like starting a new job, moving, or becoming a parent. Her style is warm and direct and she aims to make sessions straightforward and useful.
Courtney draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns.
Background and approach
She uses client-centered methods to keep sessions focused on each person’s needs and pace. For people coping with trauma, she brings trauma-focused tools to help reduce symptoms and build safer ways of connecting to memories and feelings. She has four years of clinical experience and several years providing tele-mental health care.
Much of her work has involved people with developmental trauma and complex attachment histories. That experience shapes how she supports emotional regulation, trust-building, and practical coping skills. Courtney takes an evidence-minded approach and keeps learning new interventions that may help clients move forward.
She pays attention to cultural context and to each person’s background when choosing how to work together. Sessions mix listening, problem solving, and skill practice so people leave with ideas they can use between appointments. Therapy with Courtney focuses on steady progress rather than quick fixes.
She helps clients identify small, reachable goals and builds steps toward those goals during regular sessions.
Attachment and Trauma Work Online
Courtney uses attachment-based ideas to help people see how early relationships affect current emotions and interactions. This approach looks at patterns of connection and helps people try new ways of relating that feel safer and more dependable.She also draws on client-centered therapy, which keeps the session focused on what the person wants to work on. That method emphasizes empathy, active listening, and following the client’s pace so goals grow out of the person’s own priorities.
Trauma-focused approaches are used when past hurt continues to affect daily life. These methods help people process upsetting memories, reduce overwhelm, and build practical skills for managing triggers and strong emotions.
Deciding which approach fits best is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to set goals, try methods, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Clients are invited to give feedback and to shape how sessions progress.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues during deeper conversations, phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat options make it easier to check in between sessions. These formats help therapy fit into work, school, or family schedules and make it simpler to maintain continuity during life changes.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English