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Online therapist

Courtney Gum

Support for stress, grief, and life changes

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Credentials
MD, LCSW-C
Experience
8 years
Licensed in
Maryland
Languages
English
Format
Online sessions

About Courtney

Courtney Gum is a licensed clinician in Maryland who focuses on helping people face stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, and depression. She speaks plainly and creates a calm space where clients can share their thoughts and feelings without judgment. Courtney brings eight years of experience to sessions and aims to make the first step toward change feel manageable.

She works with practical concerns like attention and concentration as well as emotional issues tied to life transitions.

Background and approach

In sessions Courtney uses straightforward methods to address day-to-day struggles. She helps clients notice patterns of thinking that feed anxiety and depression. She also supports people learning to cope with grief and loss in realistic, step-by-step ways.

Conversations are collaborative and paced to each person’s comfort. Her training combines talking therapies with tools to change unhelpful habits. Clients can expect focused exercises for managing stress and small behavioral experiments to test new ways of responding.

Courtney draws from evidence-based approaches while keeping language simple and concrete. She also pays attention to relationship and intimacy concerns and to parenting-related stress when those topics come up in work together. Additional areas she attends to include caregiver strain, chronic illness, blended family issues, and fertility-related distress.

Practical problem solving and emotional support are blended in sessions. Courtney offers sessions in English and practices as MD, LCSW-C. Therapy is available through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

To begin clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.

How Courtney’s approaches translate to online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, understanding, and responding to each person where they are. Online, this means sessions start with the client’s priorities and move at their pace while the therapist reflects and clarifies what matters most.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets unhelpful thoughts and small behaviors that keep problems going. In virtual sessions Courtney can introduce short exercises, thought records, and behavioral experiments that clients practice between meetings to reduce anxiety and lift mood.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust as needed. That collaborative process helps match techniques to what actually helps the client most.

Online formats offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let people preserve face-to-face conversation from home, phone sessions provide a simpler option when screens are difficult, and live chat or text messaging can suit quick check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a parent’s schedule or during caregiving responsibilities while keeping the focus on practical skills and steady emotional support.

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.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)

Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does she address most often?
Courtney works with stress, anxiety, grief, self-esteem and depression along with attention and concentration difficulties. She also addresses relationship and parenting-related stress and many related life changes.
What is her therapy style like?
She keeps sessions collaborative and down-to-earth, focusing on clear, practical steps and conversations that feel safe and nonjudgmental.
What background and experience does she have?
Courtney has eight years of professional experience helping people with emotional and practical challenges, drawing on both talk-based work and structured exercises.
What are her credentials and where does she practice?
She is licensed in Maryland and holds the credentials MD and LCSW-C, listed as MD LCSW-C 19066.
Which languages are supported? Can international clients connect?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
How are sessions conducted?
Sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on client preference.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What is the first step to begin therapy?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling according to the therapist's availability.

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Experience
8 years
Licensed
Maryland
Languages
English

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