Courtney Dowdell(She/Her/Hers)

Courtney Dowdell is a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist and Certified Eating Disorder Creative Arts Therapist in Midtown, Manhattan who specializes in depression, anxiety, trauma, disordered eating, and body image challenges.

Courtney utilizes a relational and psychodynamic approach within a creative framework to help clients set realistic goals and work toward change. She also has extensive experience collaborating with other treatment professionals to set up an individualized treatment plan to support recovery. With a background in both expressive therapies and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), she takes elements of DBT and uses them in a way that promotes flexibility and spontaneity. She helps her clients understand behavioral and emotional cues and how these behaviors are showing up in different aspects of their life. While she validates and normalizes her clients’ actions and thoughts, she also helps them find alternative coping skills and learn how to regulate their emotions, communicate their feelings with others, and sit with the negative feelings.

Courtney brings warmth, compassion, and insight, offering a space where clients can explore their thoughts and feelings in a nonjudgmental environment. Courtney previously worked at Balance Eating Disorder Treatment Center. She received her MA from New York University.