Courtney Threats, LICSW

Courtney Threats greets people with a calm, straightforward approach. She is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) based in Rhode Island with ten years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and problems tied to trauma, addictions, and relationships.

Courtney centers work on practical skills you can use between sessions. She listens for existing strengths and helps people build small habits that reduce overwhelm. Sessions often include goal-setting, behavior-focused strategies, and mindfulness exercises aimed at improving day-to-day coping.

She also attends to more specific concerns such as attachment and abandonment issues, codependency, communication problems, and struggles with guilt or shame. For people facing substance use or domestic violence histories, she offers steady, nonjudgmental support and motivation-focused conversations about change.

Courtney uses a mix of approaches including cognitive behavioral ideas, acceptance and commitment practices, and client-centered techniques to shape the work. She draws on Gottman-informed methods when relationship patterns are a focus and brings mindfulness into emotional regulation work.

Her style is collaborative and straightforward. New clients complete a brief intake and then set achievable steps together. Courtney recognizes that starting therapy takes courage and she aims to make the process clear and approachable.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages noticing thoughts and values-guided action. It helps people who feel stuck by teaching them to accept difficult thoughts and move toward what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors. It is practical for anxiety, depression, and stress because it breaks problems into clear steps.

Courtney will work with each person to find the best fit. She treats the choice of approach as a collaboration based on your goals, preferences, and the issues you bring. Together you can try one method and adjust as you learn what helps most.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for full-session conversation and skill demonstrations, phone calls can fit a break at work or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging supports quick check-ins or ongoing encouragement between meetings. These options let people fit therapy into their day without long commutes and make it easier to keep consistent progress.