Courtney Dunson, LPC

Courtney Dunson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Colorado with seven years of clinical experience. She works with adults dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and attachment concerns, trauma and abuse, and struggles such as codependency. Her practical aim is to help people who feel flattened by past wounds or who are exhausted by living around someone else's moods or crises.

Courtney focuses first on creating steadiness in day-to-day life. She helps people strengthen emotional and nervous system regulation before addressing painful memories. That can mean learning grounding skills, breath and distress-tolerance tools, or small behavioral changes that make daily life more manageable.

Sessions center on collaborative problem solving and compassionate listening. She draws from attachment-based work to look at how early connections affect current relationships, and from cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thought patterns and test new behaviors. Dialectical behavior skills and motivational interviewing are used when someone needs clearer emotion regulation or wants help making a lasting change.

Courtney often works with issues tied to identity and belonging, like abandonment fears, feeling empty, or trouble setting boundaries with others. She also supports people coping with grief, addictions, eating and sleeping problems, and intrusive thoughts or compulsions.

Her approach is straightforward and paced to the client's readiness. New clients typically begin with basic stabilization and practical skills, then move into deeper material when they feel safer doing so.

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