Courtney Killough Therapy Practice
Therapy for meaningful change—in yourself, your relationships, and the way you experience your life.
As a psychotherapy practice in Calabasas, California, we provide compassionate, experiential therapy for individuals and couples navigating emotional distress, relationship challenges, life transitions, and the effects of past experiences.
Together, we explore the patterns, stories, and protective strategies that may be keeping you stuck and create space for new possibilities. Through greater awareness, emotional connection, and self-compassion, you can begin to relate to yourself and others in new ways.
Individual Therapy • Couples Therapy • Calabasas & Online
Areas of Focus
Relationships & Couples
Relationships can begin with connection and possibility and gradually become places of frustration, conflict, or disconnection.
Maybe you find yourselves having the same argument over and over. Perhaps one of you pursues while the other withdraws, difficult conversations quickly escalate, or you struggle to feel heard and understood. You may love each other deeply while feeling increasingly stuck in patterns that neither of you knows how to change.
Couples therapy provides a space to slow these patterns down and understand what is happening underneath the conflict. We work together to shift the relationship dance, strengthen communication, increase emotional safety and connection, and create greater intimacy and understanding.
Dating, Heartbreak & Relationships
Maybe you’ve experienced a series of relationships that left you feeling hurt, betrayed, disappointed, or questioning yourself. You may notice familiar patterns repeating in your dating life or find yourself struggling to trust after a painful relationship.
Therapy can offer a space to look more deeply at your relationship patterns, process heartbreak and past experiences, and develop a more compassionate understanding of yourself. Together, we can explore what you want in a relationship, strengthen your sense of self, and support you in creating healthier and more fulfilling connections.
Grief & Loss
Grief can change the way you experience yourself and the world around you. After losing someone you love, you may feel pressure to “move on” while a part of you wants to remain connected to the person and relationship that mattered so deeply.
There is no single way to grieve, and healing does not require forgetting. Therapy can provide a compassionate space to process your loss, honor the continuing bond you have with your loved one, and gradually discover how to carry that relationship with you as you move forward.
Depression & Disconnection
Depression can feel like losing access to parts of yourself that once felt alive. You may feel withdrawn, unmotivated, numb, hopeless, or weighed down by experiences that have accumulated over time.
Therapy offers a space to slow down and understand what is beneath the heaviness rather than simply trying to push it away. We can explore past and present experiences, reconnect with emotions and needs, and gradually cultivate greater vitality, meaning, and connection in your life.
Anxiety & Overwhelm
When your mind is constantly anticipating what could go wrong, it can become difficult to feel present in your actual life. Anxiety may show up as overthinking, perfectionism, worry, physical tension, difficulty making decisions, or a sense that you always need to be doing more.
Therapy can help you understand the patterns underneath anxiety, develop greater awareness of your internal experience, and cultivate tools for feeling more grounded and present. Rather than eliminating every uncomfortable feeling, we work toward developing a greater sense of safety, flexibility, and trust in yourself.
A Different Way of Experiencing Your Story
Our experiences shape the stories we carry about ourselves, our relationships, and what is possible for our lives. Sometimes those stories become limiting long after the experiences that created them have passed.
Therapy can help you step back from familiar patterns, develop new perspectives, and create an experiential narrative that allows for greater freedom and possibility.
Whether you are seeking individual therapy or couple therapy, the goal is not simply to return to who you were before things became difficult.
It is to create the awareness, connection, and capacity to move forward in a new way.
Session Fees
Courtney Killough
50-minute Individual Therapy Session — $215
50-minute Couple Therapy Session — $245
Ava Lange
50-minute Individual Therapy Session — $145
50-minute Couple Therapy Session — $175
Insurance
We are out-of-network (OON) providers. Upon request, we can send you monthly Superbills to submit to your insurance for potential reimbursement. Check with your insurance provider for details on your OON deductible, reimbursement percentage, and maximum allowable amount for a session. You may also sign-up for Mentaya and check your benefits. The service streamlines getting reimbursed for sessions.
Courtney’s compassionate and assertive approach has been instrumental in my personal growth over the past couple of years. Her ability to balance empathy with a clear-eyed focus has helped me navigate life’s challenges with greater resilience and self-awareness. I leave our sessions feeling calmer and more grounded.
Working with Courtney was an amazing experience. It was both of our first times going through couple’s therapy and we weren’t sure what to expect throughout the process. Courtney is an extraordinary couple’s therapist, and her expertise, empathy, and guidance have been nothing short of life-changing. Even though our sessions were virtual, she was still able to create a warm and welcoming atmosphere that made tough conversations easier to have. She was able to provide us with tools and education via other websites so that we can read and learn on our own time as well. My partner and I were able to communicate and understand each other much better after our sessions with Courtney. We definitely recommend working with Courtney!
Over the past several years, Courtney has been an invaluable ally in navigating my own interpersonal challenges, as well as those of life during the pandemic. She has an exceptional talent at listening without judgement, and offered profound advice several times that managed to make it through even my own formidable blindspots. Her personality set me at ease instantly, and made opening up and talking about challenging topics safe and comfortable. I would absolutely recommend her as a therapist to anyone I cared for, knowing they would be in capable hands.
Courtney is a lovely therapist. She has such an empathetic presence and really makes me feel heard. I feel extremely supported by her, especially in the ways that she incorporates the things she knows I love about mindfulness into our sessions. I absolutely love how calm and incredibly warm she is as well.
Courtney is great and I will definitely pick up my sessions with her again when I am able to. She is the first therapist in a long time that I really felt helped me.