Marika Courtney, LPCC

Marika Courtney is a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) practicing in Ohio with ten years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, parenting concerns, career shifts, and major life changes. Marika aims to make therapy straightforward and useful for everyday challenges.

Her style is grounded in client-centered care. She listens closely and helps people set small, practical goals. Sessions often include talking through patterns, trying new ways of responding, and building coping skills that fit a person’s life.

Marika uses a mix of approaches drawn from cognitive behavioral ideas, acceptance and commitment techniques, attachment work, and emotionally focused practices. Those methods are used as tools to address problems like communication breakdowns, commitment worries, codependency, and caregiver stress. She also brings attention to issues such as abandonment and aging and geriatric issues when they are part of a person’s concerns.

People come for help with work pressure, relationship tension, or recovery after difficult events. Marika helps clients explore what matters to them and make steady changes toward those values. She supports parents through parenting strains and helps people facing life transitions find clearer direction.

To begin, she invites people to name one small change they want to make. From there she helps plan manageable steps, checks progress, and adjusts strategies as needed.

Therapeutic approaches for online support

Marika often draws from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy in her work. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying new behaviors to change feelings and results, which can help with anxiety, stress, and mood. Acceptance and commitment therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take steps that align with their values to build a meaningful life.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Marika talks with each person about goals, what has helped before, and what feels doable. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust those methods over time based on what is working.

Confirm current session options before booking as formats are not specified in her biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and reduce travel time. It also lets people choose shorter check-ins when needed, avoid being on camera for some sessions, or schedule sessions around work or caregiving commitments. Licensed professionals can tailor pacing, homework, and session length to match each person’s needs.