About Courtney
Courtney Chandler is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, ADHD, bipolar concerns, and relationship or intimacy questions. She meets adolescents and adults where they are and focuses on practical ways to manage emotion and daily challenges.
Her style is down-to-earth and direct, aimed at helping clients feel steadier and more able to cope. Courtney draws on somatic ideas alongside talk-based methods to address how feelings show up in the body as well as the mind.
Background and approach
She blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice patterns, test new behaviors, and commit to changes that match their values. Attachment-based work is used when relationship patterns and early bonds matter to current struggles. Her background includes a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Mercer University and ten years of clinical experience.
She holds the LPC credential and has continued study in marriage and family systems, addictions, trauma, and play therapy. This mix of training supports a flexible, integrated approach rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. Therapy sessions may include gentle body-awareness exercises, skills practice, and clear problem-solving.
Courtney aims to make sessions useful and understandable, with goals set together each step of the way. Outside work she enjoys time outdoors with her husband and dog, listening to music, and reconnecting with nature and animals. Those interests influence a practical, grounded way of working in sessions.
How somatic and talk therapies work online
Somatic-informed work pays attention to where stress and emotions live in the body and uses gentle awareness and movement to reduce tension and increase regulation. This can help with anxiety, trauma responses, chronic pain, and problems that feel stuck in the body.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking committed action even when difficult thoughts or feelings appear. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions where motivation and meaning matter. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns from early relationships and how they show up now in trust, closeness, and conflict. It helps when relational habits are keeping someone stuck.
Finding the best approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to test methods that match goals and comfort level. Clients and the therapist adjust pace and strategies as progress unfolds.
Online sessions can include video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different needs. These options make it easier to attend work, school, or home responsibilities while keeping therapy consistent. The variety of formats also lets people choose how to engage with body-awareness exercises and skills practice in ways that feel manageable.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English