Courtney Rankin is an Illinois-licensed clinician with five years of professional experience helping people navigate hard moments.
01About Courtney
Courtney Rankin is an Illinois-licensed clinician with five years of professional experience helping people navigate hard moments. She meets individuals who are facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and big life changes. Her work centers on clear, practical conversations that focus on what a person needs right now.
Courtney uses a warm, nonjudgmental stance in sessions. She practices unconditional positive regard and shapes goals around each person's situation. That means listening first, then building steps that feel realistic and manageable.
Background and approach
People often come to her for relationship and intimacy-related concerns. She also supports those dealing with family conflict, career worries, and self-esteem struggles. Her approach pays attention to both the feelings behind an issue and the everyday choices that affect it.
When trauma or abuse is part of the story, she moves at the client's pace and focuses on safety and stability before deeper processing. For ADHD and concentration concerns she helps clients build routines and strategies that fit their life and work needs. Courtney offers straightforward talk therapy mixed with practical exercises clients can try between sessions.
She aims to make each meeting useful and clear, so progress is visible over time.
02Credentials
- LCPC (Illinois)
- License 180013842 · expires March 2027
- NPI
- 1760151625 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Courtney lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Coping with life changes
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- ADHD
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04Online support
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Courtney draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One common approach helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and test new ways of responding to stress and anxiety. This method is useful for anxiety, depression, and life stress because it teaches concrete skills to change everyday reactions.Another approach centers on building routines and strategies for attention and executive challenges. That involves organizing tasks, setting simple habits, and using small experiments to improve focus and follow-through. It can help with ADHD, work concerns, and managing day-to-day demands.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Courtney works collaboratively to choose methods that match the client's goals, preferences, and pace. She will discuss options and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy with Courtney can use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and body language. Phone sessions fit when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text work well for quick check-ins, journaling between sessions, or when writing helps organize thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between meetings.
05Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does this therapist help with?
Courtney works with relationship issues, family conflict, grief, stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, self-esteem, career concerns, and ADHD.
What is the therapy style like in sessions?
Sessions focus on listening, unconditional positive regard, and practical steps. Conversations are shaped to each person's needs and aim to build clear, manageable goals.
How much experience does the therapist have?
She has five years of professional experience working with a range of emotional and life concerns.
What are the therapist's credentials and location?
The therapist holds an IL LCPC credential and practices in Illinois.
Are sessions available in languages other than English?
Sessions are offered in English.
Which session formats are offered?
Sessions can be done by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with this therapist?
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