Courtney Tibbetts

Courtney Tibbetts is a clinical psychologist practicing in Louisiana. She focuses on helping people make practical, lasting changes in their lives. She works with adults and adolescents on issues like stress, anxiety, depression, relationships, and trauma. Courtney holds the credential LA Psychologist 1463. Courtney earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from East Carolina University and a Master of Science in Clinical Psychology at Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania. She completed a one-year internship at the Federal Medical Center in Devens, Massachusetts and went on to receive a Doctor of Psychology, Psy.D., from Marywood University. Across 13 years of practice, she has supported people coping with complicated personal histories and ongoing emotional struggles. Sessions typically address mood disorders, panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, and social anxiety in clear, step-by-step work. She also helps with attachment concerns, caregiver stress, communication problems, and issues that follow divorce or family conflict. Her approach favors evidence-based therapeutic techniques that are practical and focused on real-life changes. Courtney aims to help clients identify goals, practice new skills, and build patterns that fit their daily routines. She offers both assessment and individual and group therapy as part of her work. People who come to her usually want straightforward guidance and tools they can use between sessions. She helps clients clarify values and take small, steady steps toward the life they want. For parents reading on a phone, she writes short, direct plans and supports progress in simple language.

Therapeutic approaches and working online

Evidence-based therapeutic techniques are central to her work and focus on practical skills and measurable steps. One common approach she uses involves structured, skill-based work to reduce anxiety and panic symptoms by teaching coping skills and gradual exposure to fear triggers. This helps people practice new responses when worry or panic arises.

Another strand of her work addresses trauma and post-traumatic stress with careful, paced methods that reduce distress and help people manage painful memories. This approach emphasizes stabilizing skills first, then building the ability to face and reprocess difficult experiences at a manageable pace.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will discuss options with each person, listen to their goals and preferences, and adjust techniques as progress is made. Clients and therapist choose methods together based on what fits the client’s life and needs.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the current session formats before booking because the biography does not list specific options. Online care can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, shorten commute time, and allow more consistent check-ins during transitions such as moving or changing jobs. Therapists can also adapt techniques so exercises and homework fit daily routines rather than relying only on in-person sessions.