About Nanesha
Dr. Nanesha Courtney uses a practical, client-centered approach to help people feel steadier and more capable. She blends talk therapy with mindfulness and problem-solving to address stress, anxiety, depression, chronic pain, and life transitions.
Dr. Courtney has worked in mental health for 25 years and brings that experience into straightforward, goal-focused sessions. She focuses on short- and long-term coping strategies that fit each person's life.
Sessions often include skill practice, simple behavior changes, and mindfulness exercises to reduce worry and improve mood.
Background and approach
She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and change them. For people with trauma-related symptoms, EMDR is one of the approaches she may use to reduce intense memories and distress. Motivational interviewing is used when clients want help clarifying goals and building momentum for change.
These tools are selected with client input rather than applied automatically. Dr. Courtney works with concerns such as relationship strain, grief, parenting stress, compassion fatigue, illness-related distress, and challenges tied to career or caregiving.
She also supports people dealing with bipolar symptoms, anger, loneliness, and intimacy-related issues. Her background includes extensive work with chronic pain and medical conditions. Licensed as an LMHC in Washington, she offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text message.
Sessions are delivered via a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps connect a person and schedule sessions based on therapist availability.
How clinical approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and meeting you where you are. Online sessions let the therapist reflect your needs, set goals together, and try ways of coping that feel right for your life.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and actions that keep problems going. In remote sessions, CBT includes practical homework, short exercises during video calls, and simple behavior changes to reduce anxiety and lift mood.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is used for distressing memories and trauma symptoms. When appropriate, EMDR protocols can be adapted for video or phone work so the therapist and client can process memories and reduce their intensity.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through options and try methods that match a person's goals and preferences. Clients help steer which tools feel most useful and the plan is adjusted along the way.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video is good for face-to-face work and guided exercises, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat allows short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflections between sessions. These formats make it possible to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or medical needs.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English