Courtney Kempker
Compassionate care for family and parenting concerns
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed in
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Courtney
Courtney Kempker is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on family and parenting concerns. She works with adults and families coping with stress, grief, relationship problems, and parenting challenges. Her style is direct and practical, aimed at helping clients find clearer ways to communicate and manage everyday emotional strain.
Courtney trained in counseling psychology, earning a Master of Education in Counseling Psychology from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Central Methodist University.
Background and approach
Her Missouri LPC credential is MO LPC 2018036463 and she brings four years of professional experience to her work. Much of Courtney's clinical background centers on trauma and attachment. She has experience with developmental trauma and received training in Brainspotting Phase I and II, Polyvagal Theory, and Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga.
These trainings inform how she helps people process difficult experiences while attending to the body and nervous system. In sessions she uses attachment-based and client-centered ideas alongside trauma-focused techniques. That means she aims to build trust, listen closely, and tailor interventions to what each person needs.
She focuses on practical tools for coping with anxiety, depression, anger, and life transitions. Courtney offers tele-mental health services and has experience delivering virtual Brainspotting. She continues to expand her skills and emphasizes culturally aware care in her practice.
How her approaches translate to online work
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on improving connection and safety in relationships. Online sessions using this approach help people identify patterns in how they relate and practice new ways of connecting with others.Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and meeting a person where they are. In remote sessions Courtney follows the client's pace, reflects what she hears, and helps clients find solutions that fit their daily lives.
Trauma-Focused Therapy targets processing past harms and reducing their hold on daily functioning. When delivered online, trauma-focused techniques can include guided attention, pacing, and strategies that help manage bodily responses between appointments.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Courtney collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She checks in over time and adjusts the plan based on how clients respond.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions around busy family schedules and life transitions, and they allow follow-up and skill practice between meetings. Licensed professionals can use these formats to maintain consistent care while adapting techniques to a remote setting.
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.
Trauma-Focused Therapy
Work that takes difficult past experience into account and moves at a pace you set, with attention to feeling steady before anything else. Being in your own space can make that easier for some people.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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
Next step
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