About Courtney
Courtney Groce is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Missouri with ten years of experience helping people through difficult emotional challenges. She focuses on everyday struggles like anxiety, depression, stress, and relationship problems. Her approach is warm and straightforward, aimed at making therapy feel manageable for busy lives.
Courtney often helps people rebuild self-esteem and learn practical coping skills. She uses conversational, client-centered work that keeps the person's values and goals in view.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to the client's comfort. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and increase psychological flexibility. Courtney also integrates existential ideas when clients are wrestling with meaning and life transitions.
Her background includes work with addiction, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting concerns, and ADHD-related struggles. She pays attention to family of origin issues, adoption and foster care dynamics, and communication or control problems that affect daily life. Courtney aims to create a respectful setting where people can talk through painful experiences, set realistic goals, and try new ways of coping.
She works with LGBT concerns, bipolar mood difficulties, compassion fatigue, and other stress-related issues. The focus is on practical steps people can use between sessions to feel steadier and more in control.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying patterns of thought and behavior that keep problems going. In online sessions this looks like noticing reactions, practicing new skills, and setting small experiments to try between meetings.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify values and build committed action despite difficult feelings. Online ACT work often uses short exercises, mindfulness practices, and values-driven goal setting to guide change.
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and the client's own priorities. That approach helps therapists adapt pacing and homework to each person's rhythm, whether in a video call or a quick chat message.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels helpful, then tailor methods so they fit the person's life. This is a collaborative process that can change as needs shift.
Online formats offer practical benefits. Video calls let for face-to-face conversation and shared worksheets. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited and are useful for focused check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, skill practice between sessions, and flexible communication when schedules are tight. These options make regular work on concerns like anxiety, phobias, grief, and relationship patterns more accessible.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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