About Courtney
Courtney Hoyman is a clinician who combines medical and social work training to help people cope with stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, depression, and ADHD. She holds an MD and is an LCSW-C. Her practical, straightforward approach aims to make the first steps easier for someone seeking help.
Courtney draws on 14 years of experience in behavioral health and substance use settings. She has worked with individuals affected by foster care and adoption systems and has spent time in treatment settings focused on addiction recovery.
Background and approach
That background informs how she listens for patterns that keep people stuck. In sessions she treats the person, not just the problem. She focuses on clear, manageable goals and helps people build skills they can use between appointments.
She emphasizes strengths and practical strategies more than jargon or lengthy theory discussions. For people coping with ADHD, she offers help organizing daily routines, managing attention and follow-through, and reducing frustration caused by symptoms. For those facing trauma or loss, she offers steady support and ways to regain a sense of control over daily life.
Courtney encourages small, realistic steps and looks for ways clients can practice change outside the session. She invites open conversation about what is working and what needs to change. Her style is direct, compassionate, and goal-focused to help clients make steady progress.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques focus on practical strategies and measurable progress. One approach emphasizes skill-building for daily functioning, teaching routines, task breakdown, and planning methods that help with attention and organization. This works well for issues like ADHD, stress, and day-to-day overwhelm.Another approach concentrates on processing trauma and reducing its hold on current life. It uses paced conversations and coping tools to help people tolerate difficult memories and rebuild a sense of safety in everyday routines. That method often helps with trauma, abuse, grief, and related anxiety or mood symptoms.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will ask about your goals, try methods that match your needs, and adjust plans based on what helps. You and the therapist decide together which techniques feel useful and realistic.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls let you see facial cues and work through exercises together. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is low or when being on camera feels hard. Live chat and text sessions support quick check-ins, short skills practice, or ongoing reflection between longer appointments. These options provide flexibility so therapy can match your schedule and daily demands.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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