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Courtney Strong-Gurr, LPC

  • Experience10 years
  • LocationArizona
  • Focus areasADHD, Stress and Anxiety, and Addictions
  • Therapy approachesAttachment-Based Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy
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About Courtney

Courtney Strong-Gurr is an Arizona-licensed LPC with a decade of professional experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, and trauma-related concerns. She also supports clients working through relationship and intimacy difficulties, LGBT-related challenges, bipolar symptoms, and attention-related struggles such as ADHD.

Background and approach

Her practice addresses a broad range of life transitions and emotional concerns including parenting, career strain, self-esteem, and compassion fatigue. She takes a client-centered, collaborative approach that emphasizes openness and nonjudgmental listening.

Grounded in attachment-based perspectives, cognitive behavioral tools, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy, she helps clients identify patterns, build coping strategies, and strengthen relationships. Courtney describes therapy as a partnership in which clients set goals and explore practical pathways toward change.

Sessions focus on empowering clients to make meaningful shifts at their own pace. Her work also includes attention to complex themes such as adoption and foster care issues, gender dysphoria, substance use, eating and body image concerns, and caregiver stress.

Courtney aims to create a supportive environment where people can explore feelings, try new skills, and move toward greater well-being.

Approaches That Guide Online Work and Practical Support

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationship patterns shape current emotional responses and interpersonal dynamics; it helps people understand and shift long-standing ways of relating to others. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) offers structured techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replace them with more adaptive alternatives, which can reduce symptoms like anxiety or depressive thinking. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) concentrates on building skills in emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness to manage intense emotions and improve everyday functioning.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and the therapist will work collaboratively with each person to determine which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. This may involve integrating elements from multiple approaches so that treatment is tailored and responsive rather than one-size-fits-all.

Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, offering flexibility for varied schedules and comfort levels. These formats make regular participation more accessible for people balancing work, caregiving, or health constraints, while still allowing for focused therapeutic work and skills practice with a licensed professional.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does this therapist support?
Courtney works with a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, ADHD, and many related life challenges.
How would you describe the therapeutic style used in sessions?
Her style is collaborative and client-centered, emphasizing an open, nonjudgmental space where clients and therapist work together to set goals and develop coping strategies.
How much clinical experience does this practitioner have?
She brings 10 years of professional experience working with people across a variety of emotional, relational, and behavioral concerns.
What are the clinician's credentials and where is she based?
Courtney holds the LPC credential and is licensed in Arizona as AZ LPC LPC-20453.
In which languages can sessions be conducted and are international clients accepted?
Sessions are conducted in English, and she is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are available for online work?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different preferences and needs.
How is pricing handled for therapy with this clinician?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin working together?
To get started, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist's availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyAddictionsLGBTTrauma and abuseDepression

Also works with

Relationship issuesFamily conflictsGriefIntimacy-related issuesEating disordersSleeping disordersParenting issuesAnger managementSelf esteemCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderCoping with life changesCoachingCompassion fatigueADHD

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAdoption and foster careAttachment issuesBlended family issuesBody imageCaregiver issues and stressCommitment issuesCommunication problemsDivorce and separationDomestic violenceDrug and alcohol addictionEating and food-related issuesGender dysphoriaGuilt and shameHIV / AIDSHospice and end-of-life counselingImpulsivityLife purposeMoney and financial issuesMood disordersPanic disorder and panic attacksParanoiaPersonality disordersPost-traumatic stressProcess addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)Self-harmSelf-loveSex addictionSexual assault and abuseSexualitySocial anxiety and phobiaVisually impairedWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)Existential TherapyEye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)Mindfulness TherapyMotivational Interviewing

Experience

10+ years

Licensed

Arizona

Languages

English

What Courtney can help with

Courtney Strong-Gurr works with clients on stress and anxiety, addictions, LGBT, trauma and abuse, and depression.

Courtney works with clients with stress and anxiety, coping with addictions, lgbt-related issues, and trauma and abuse.

How Courtney approaches therapy

Courtney's clinical approaches include Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Existential Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Mindfulness Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing.

Experience and training

Courtney is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Arizona, with 10 years of clinical experience.

Therapy style

Courtney aims to support & empower you in that journey.