Services Offered
Dr. Courtney provides the following services for Parents and Children; and for Mental Health Practitioners:
Psychotherapy Services:- Child Play Therapy
- Adolescent Therapy
- Infant Mental Health
- Couples and Individual Therapy
- Family Therapy (Parent-Child relationship)
- Supervised or Facilitated Parent-Child Court appointed Visitation
- Child treatment for Reactive Attachment disorder and disrupted attachments. Parent-child directed facilitation.
- Parenting training (Conscious Discipline approach)
- Telephone consultation and therapy (local and long distance)
- Home Visits
- Workshop Trainings on a variety of topics
- Certification offering in CARE Developmental Play Therapy℠ (an Attachment based treatment approach)
- Supervision of Practitioners toward Florida State licensure
- Supervision of Practitioners toward Registered Play Therapy certification through the Association for Play Therapy
- Community agency Consultation; Supervision and Workshop provider
- Consultation with Practitioners beginning Private Practice
- Consultation regarding Qualitative Research Design
- Adjunct Professor MSW program Barry University (Course topics taught have included, Psychopathology; Family Therapy; Advanced Family Practice; Human Sexuality; Spirituality; Practice with Children; Advanced Practice with Individuals)
Humanistic psychology is based upon the assumption that: “the individual has within himself; not only the ability to solve his own problems satisfactorily, but also this growth impulse that makes mature behavior more satisfying than immature behavior” Virginia Axline, Play Therapy, p. 15
Dr. Courtney incorporates an eclectic theory approach geared to the individual needs of the client(s). Theory approaches utilized are:
- Attachment Theory
- Client Centered Therapy
- Ericksonian theory
- Gestalt Therapy and Human Potential work
- Humanistic Psychology
- Play Therapy experiential methods
- Systems Theory
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
