Courtney Senk , LPC

Courtney Senk is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Wisconsin who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, and depression. She focuses on practical steps clients can use day to day. Her approach aims to make therapy feel understandable and doable for people under strain.

Courtney centers respect, sensitivity, and compassion in sessions. She listens to each person’s story and adapts conversations to fit individual needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan. Sessions are meant to help clients notice what’s holding them back and try small, manageable changes.

With four years of professional experience, she brings a calm, steady presence to difficult topics. That experience includes helping people cope with chronic pain, illness, and disability, and work through problems with communication, control, guilt, or shame. She also supports people navigating divorce, loss, isolation, or questions about life purpose.

Courtney pays attention to the impact of trauma and post-traumatic stress and offers help with recovery from abusive experiences. She is also attentive to issues that commonly affect women and incorporates that context when relevant to a person’s goals.

Meetings are conversational and goal-focused. Courtney helps clients set realistic steps, track progress, and change course when needed. She encourages people to take the first step toward a more fulfilling life and stays alongside them as they try new strategies.

Approaches and what online therapy looks like

Evidence-based techniques focus on skills people can use between sessions. One common approach emphasizes learning coping skills for anxiety and stress, such as breathing exercises, grounding techniques, and breaking problems into smaller steps. These tools help with day-to-day worries and overwhelming moments.

Another approach focuses on processing trauma and its effects by creating safety, naming difficult memories, and gradually building tolerance for distress. This work can help reduce the hold past events have on thoughts and everyday routines. A third strand centers on improving mood and self-esteem through behavior changes and small goal-setting to increase positive experiences over time.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That collaborative planning may shift as progress is made and new challenges arise.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging can suit quick check-ins or ongoing support, and all formats make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule.