Courtney Surigao

Courtney Surigao is an LCMHC based in North Carolina with 18 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing intense feelings like anger, grief, anxiety, depression, and stress. Her style is direct and practical, focusing on realistic steps clients can take to feel better.

Courtney emphasizes a therapy relationship where people feel heard and respected. She often uses client-centered methods alongside cognitive behavioral and solution-focused approaches to set clear goals. Sessions may include worksheets, short exercises, and tasks to practice between meetings.

Her work covers a wide range of concerns including relationship and family difficulties, parenting strain, trauma and abuse, mood disorders, and issues around eating, sleeping, and self-esteem. She also addresses grief, caregiving stress, and challenges tied to adoption or blended families. Anger and intimacy-related problems are part of her focus areas.

Courtney names faith, personal values, and life experience as influences on how she sees each person. She describes therapy as hard work that requires effort, and she partners with clients to identify values, strengths, and achievable steps. The goal is practical change that fits a person's life.

Clients can expect a collaborative approach that blends narrative, emotionally-focused, and solution-focused ideas when useful. Courtney aims to help people move toward more hope, clearer direction, and better day-to-day functioning.

How her approaches guide online work

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening carefully and following a person's lead. It helps when someone needs empathy, acceptance, and time to sort through strong feelings like anger or grief. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful reactions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. That conversation shapes whether more CBT skills, emotionally-focused methods, or narrative and solution-focused techniques are emphasized.

The practical benefit of online therapy is making sessions easier to fit into daily life. Online work can reduce travel time, help schedule appointments around work or caregiving, and make it simpler to follow up with short tasks between meetings. The original biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking to see what is offered and best fits your routine.