Dr. Nanesha Courtney , LMHC

Dr. Nanesha Courtney practices a client-centered approach that keeps the person at the heart of each session. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 25 years of experience and uses practical tools to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and self-esteem struggles.

Her work focuses on what people need now. She helps with career concerns, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stress, grief, and trauma. She also supports people coping with chronic illness, cancer, caregiver strain, and end-of-life concerns.

Dr. Courtney blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness to build skills that reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, known as EMDR, for people who have trauma-related memories that continue to cause distress. Sessions emphasize clear strategies and step-by-step plans that clients can try between meetings.

With many years working with people who live with long-term pain and medical challenges, she brings practical experience to complex health and mood concerns. She pays attention to how physical conditions affect mood and coping, and she helps people find routines and strategies that fit their life.

Dr. Courtney practices from Washington and conducts remote sessions by video, phone, chat, or text messaging. Sessions are organized through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, clients complete a short questionnaire and schedule according to the therapist's availability.

Practical therapy approaches available online

Dr. Courtney often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing in online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-world experiments, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress. EMDR is used to lessen the emotional charge of traumatic memories through guided processing, which can reduce distress linked to past events.

She also draws on client-centered methods that prioritize each person's goals and preferences, and on mindfulness practices to build attention and calm. Choosing the right approach is a team effort: the therapist will talk with the client about symptoms, goals, and comfort with different methods, and then propose a plan to try and adjust over time.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and visual cues, phone sessions can be a good low-bandwidth option, live chat works well for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports brief, ongoing contact between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, medical appointments, or caregiving schedules, and to continue care when travel or health needs make in-person visits difficult.