Works with
- Anger
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Coping with life changes
How Courtney works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCMHC
- Licensed in
- North Carolina
- Years in practice
- 18
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Courtney
Courtney Surigao is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) based in North Carolina. She brings 18 years of experience supporting people facing stress, anxiety, grief, and anger. Her approach is straightforward and practical, aiming to help clients move from feeling stuck to making real, manageable change.
She uses client-centered work to listen and understand each person's priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and build new habits.
Background and approach
Solution-Focused Therapy narrows in on goals and small steps that make a difference right away. Courtney often incorporates emotionally-focused ideas when relationships and intimacy cause pain. Narrative Therapy helps people reframe their personal stories and find new meaning after trauma or loss.
She also draws on tools for family and parenting concerns, adoption and foster care issues, and caregiver stress. Sessions may include practical takeaways such as worksheets, short exercises, and at-home tasks to practice between meetings. These tools are used to support work on anger, sleep and eating concerns, self-esteem, mood disorders, and coping with life changes.
People who choose her work can expect clear goal-setting and steps to try between sessions. She emphasizes steady progress over quick fixes and values each person’s strengths and life experience.
What Courtney works with
Everything Courtney lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Courtney's practice.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Coping with life changes
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Courtney lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Practical approaches you can use in online sessions
Courtney often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change thought patterns that feed anxiety, anger, or low mood. CBT breaks problems into clear parts and gives hands-on exercises to practice between sessions.She also uses Client-Centered Therapy to create space for people to tell their story and be heard. This approach focuses on understanding each person's values and priorities before deciding what work will help most.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Courtney collaborates with clients to choose methods that match goals, strengths, and day-to-day life. She checks in regularly and adjusts plans based on what is helping.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues for relationship and intimacy work, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Shorter check-ins work well by text or chat for progress updates and practical homework. These options make it possible to fit therapy into busy schedules and keep momentum between visits.
Questions people ask about Courtney
What kinds of concerns does she address?
Courtney works with a wide range of issues including anxiety, depression, grief, anger, relationship and family problems, parenting stress, trauma and abuse, sleep and eating concerns, self-esteem, and career stress.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is practical and client-centered, combining Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused methods, and emotionally focused approaches to set goals and practice new skills between sessions.
How much experience does she have?
She has 18 years of clinical experience working with people facing life transitions, stress, grief, and mood concerns.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor - LCMHC - licensed in North Carolina and provides services from that state.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and she is available to work with international clients as well.
What session formats are offered?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs and schedules.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started working with her?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling sessions based on the therapist's availability.