About Nanesha
Dr. Nanesha Courtney is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 25 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, chronic pain, and life transitions.
Her approach blends body-awareness and practical talk therapy to help people feel steadier day to day. She uses Somatic techniques to help people notice how emotions show up in the body and to build calmer physical responses. She also uses client-centered methods that prioritize each person's goals and preferences.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) are included when they fit a person's needs. Dr. Courtney has worked with adults facing a wide range of concerns.
These include parenting strain, career problems, relationship and communication issues, grief, trauma and abuse, bipolar mood concerns, compassion fatigue, and end-of-life or caregiving stress. She has experience supporting people who live with chronic illness, disability, or pain. Sessions focus on practical coping strategies and on learning skills that can be used between meetings.
She partners with clients to set achievable goals and to practice new ways of responding to stress. Her style is straightforward and empathetic, aimed at helping people feel more capable and less overwhelmed. She is licensed in Washington and conducts therapy in English.
Online options include video calls, phone, live chat, and text messaging. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to the process provided on the site.
How somatic work and evidence-based approaches fit into online therapy
Somatic work helps people notice how stress and emotions live in the body and teaches simple ways to shift those physical responses. In online sessions this may look like guided body awareness, breath practices, and movement prompts that a person can do at home. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on each person's goals and preferences and creates space for honest conversation about what feels most helpful.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks larger problems into smaller patterns of thought and action to practice new responses. CBT can be used online to set small experiments between sessions and to track progress together. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose or adapt approaches based on the person's needs and comfort, so the plan evolves as trust and clarity build.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging - make therapy more flexible. Video allows face-to-face interaction for body-based work and EMDR-related tasks when appropriate. Phone or chat can suit people who need shorter check-ins or who prefer not to use video. Text messaging and live chat support ongoing coaching and skill reminders between sessions. These options let therapists and clients find a rhythm that fits daily life while working toward clearer goals.
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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