Currently accepting new clients! I am also always accepting new clients in my DBT Skills Groups. I have one for teen girls 12-17 yrs old, and one for adults 18+.
Courtney Brown is a Marriage and Family Therapist in Mesa, Arizona. She welcomes all aspects of who you are into the therapy room—your struggles, fear, passions, beliefs, and spirituality. She will help you utilize the values, strengths and skills you already possess to help you break free from impeding thoughts to become the strongest version of yourself. She primarily uses CBT and ACT models to address stress, anxiety, depression, and improve self-confidence.
Courtney works with couples, families, individuals, and also facilitates group therapy. Family relationships can be the most rewarding and long-lasting. Sometimes additional support is needed to help relationships flourish. She works with teen girls ages 12+ to develop coping skills, self-esteem, strengthen parent-child relationships and help families increase resilience. In couples counseling she utilizes EFT to help couples repair the bonds strained from miscommunication, betrayal, disengagement, or unmet needs. She also loves to serve premarital couples as they prepare for a successful marriage.
She facilitates DBT groups for teen girls and adults, to improve mood, relationships, and decision making. Participants learn to live in the moment, cope with stress, and regulate emotions. These are life skills everyone needs! No diagnosis is required, but DBT can help with anxiety, depression, anger and impulsive behaviors.
Courtney has a wide range of experience in the mental health field, including growing up with a brother with autism and physical disabilities, volunteering at a psych unit to support the schizophrenic patients, and working with teen girls in residential treatment. She volunteered as a missionary for her church for 18 months, lived for 4 months in Israel on a study abroad, and loves diversity/learning about different cultures from her clients.
Academic challenges - Addressing underperformance in coursework, school avoidance, and procrastination. Relevant to clients in junior high, high school, college, or obtaining postgraduate education.
Anxiety - Coping with excessive worry, nervousness, or stress; intense discomfort in social settings (social anxiety); sudden and intense feelings of panic (panic disorder)
Depression - Providing support and promoting healing of hopelessness, low motivation and energy, sadness, irritability, sleep disturbance, and loss of interest and pleasure in life
Couples counseling - Addressing relationship challenges and life transitions; strengthening communication and feelings of security, commitment, connection, and love
Faith Crises - Supporting clients as they explore their questions pertaining to faith, religion, or spirituality; evaluating together the costs and benefits of leaving the faith or staying in the faith. Extensive experience working with Latter-day Saint clients.
Adolescent mental health - Working with adolescents, teenagers, and parents on social, academic, and/or emotional challenges throughout teenage years; addressing anxiety, family conflicts, peer relationships, school stress, transition to college, social media pressures, self-esteem, hopelessness about the future, emotional disregulation
Courtney Brown is not in-network with any insurances.
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Years of Experience: 4 years
Second Story Counseling, Therapist, 2021 - Present
Family Services at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints , Therapist, 2018 - 2021
Arizona State University, MAS in Marriage and Family Therapy, 2019
Brigham Young University, BS in Psychology, 2018
Arizona: LMFT-15803
English
This group is helpful for anxiety, depression, stress, borderline personality disorder, eating disorders and self-harm. Teens learn to manage emotions, have a place to feel heard and belong, and learn skills using the workbook.
DBT is the skills everyone needs and barely anyone learns growing up! Group feels similar to a book club. Helpful for anxiety, depression, borderline, and anger management.