Courtney Dunson
Hope and practical support for overwhelmed parents
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed in
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Courtney
Courtney Dunson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people carrying heavy emotional burdens find steadier ground. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, and parenting challenges. Her approach aims to restore a sense of self beneath pain and fear.
Sessions focus on practical steps that build emotional calm and clearer thinking. Courtney begins by helping clients stabilize their reactions and strengthen coping skills before revisiting painful memories.
Background and approach
She uses straightforward tools to reduce overwhelm and improve day-to-day functioning. Therapy often includes skill practice for anxiety, eating and sleeping concerns, and managing obsessive or perfectionistic thoughts. With seven years of clinical experience, Courtney combines attachment-based ideas with cognitive behavioral strategies and elements of dialectical behavior therapy and motivational interviewing.
She listens closely and centers the client’s goals when choosing techniques. That means the pace and methods change with each person’s needs. Her work also addresses issues like abandonment, codependency, body image, shame, grief, and intimacy-related struggles.
She pays attention to how past relationships shape current patterns and supports clients in creating healthier ways of relating. Conversations are aimed at small, concrete changes that add up over time. Courtney practices in Colorado and offers sessions in English.
She frames therapy as a collaborative process and helps people find realistic steps toward greater resilience and clearer direction.
Approaches that guide online support and change
Courtney uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early or important relationships shape current feelings and reactions. This approach helps clarify why certain patterns repeat and supports building safer ways of relating to others.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing the behaviors that keep problems going. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, obsessive thinking, and sleep or eating concerns.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist and client collaborate to choose methods based on goals, needs, and what feels tolerable. That means sessions can shift over time as resilience grows and priorities change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Those options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, continue work between meetings, and access consistent support from wherever the client is located in Colorado. Licensed professionals can adapt interventions to each format so skills practice and emotional check-ins remain practical and effective.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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