Courtney Burrus, LPC

Courtney Burrus is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She centers her work on compassion and practical strategies. Her style aims to make big emotions feel more manageable. She creates a straightforward space for people to talk through what feels overwhelming.

She helps clients who are facing depression, trauma, relationship concerns, and issues with intimacy. She also supports people dealing with grief, addictions, eating struggles, and life changes. Sessions often include looking at how past experiences shape current feelings and behaviors.

Courtney draws on client-centered methods to keep sessions focused on each person's needs. She also uses cognitive behavioral tools to spot and shift unhelpful thinking patterns. Internal Family Systems ideas inform work around parts of the self that feel stuck or wounded.

Her background spans 12 years of practice in Texas and includes work with workplace stress, parenting strain, and compassion fatigue. She works with those navigating family-of-origin problems, attachment and abandonment concerns, and challenges around commitment and communication.

People who work with her can expect a collaborative, goal-oriented process. She aims to help clients build better coping skills and clearer self-understanding. The focus is on small, useful changes that improve day-to-day functioning and relationships.

Approaches that guide online work

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and change thought and behavior patterns that increase stress and anxiety. It uses practical exercises and short-term goals to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating an accepting, nonjudgmental space where the person leads the conversation. This approach helps people feel heard and strengthens self-understanding and self-compassion.

Internal Family Systems looks at how different parts of a person can hold fearful or protective roles. That perspective can help when past wounds or attachment issues affect current relationships and mood.

Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work together with the client to match methods to goals, needs, and preferences. That collaborative process can include trying different tools and adjusting the focus as progress unfolds.

Confirm current session options before booking, as the biography does not list specific formats. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life - for example, shorter check-ins during a break, avoiding travel time, or choosing a session style that matches comfort with cameras. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises used in these approaches to work well in remote sessions.