About Courtney
Courtney Strong-Gurr is a licensed professional counselor in Arizona who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, and trauma. She also supports clients facing LGBT concerns, relationship and intimacy issues, sleep and eating struggles, and career or life transitions. Her approach aims to make taking the first step feel less overwhelming and more doable.
Courtney creates a calm, nonjudgmental space in sessions. She encourages people to speak honestly about their thoughts and feelings.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on what matters most to the client and on practical steps they can try between sessions. She draws on several approaches to fit individual needs, including attachment-focused work, client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral techniques, and elements of dialectical behavior therapy. These methods are used to address coping skills, emotion regulation, and patterns that keep problems repeating.
With ten years of experience, Courtney has worked with a wide range of concerns such as addiction, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and issues around adoption or attachment. She also supports people dealing with domestic violence, commitment or communication problems, and body image or gender dysphoria topics. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Courtney uses straightforward language and step-by-step tools so clients can practice new ways of coping between sessions.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions use conversation to notice these patterns and practice new ways of relating to others and oneself. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In video or phone sessions, CBT techniques break problems into small steps and teach concrete skills for anxiety, depression, or sleep and eating issues.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to what you want to change, try different tools, and adjust the plan together based on what helps most. Clients often try a mix of methods so therapy fits their goals and everyday life.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when camera use feels like too much. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, homework support, or when someone needs a quick coping reminder between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, parenting, or other commitments.
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What this counselor works with
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- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English