Women's Issues

With both a Master’s degree in Women’s Studies and Gender Studies and practical experience in the field, I am well versed and prepared to apply a feminist lens to your experience.

My passion for helping women comes from years of experience working with women in both medical and mental health settings. Navigating through life’s challenges during the many biological and psychosocial changes in a woman’s life can be difficult to manage. These issues can include but are not limited to Infertility, Postpartum, Miscarriage, Menopause, Medical Diagnosis, Divorce, Adult Dating, Abuse, Single Parenting , Parenting Adult Children, Loss of a Spouse, Body Image, and Career Changes.

I have a special interest in the intersection of gender roles and socialization, identity, and mental health. As an undergraduate student at the College of Wooster, I studied Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Psychology.

I specialize in working with women who are experiencing high levels of stress and anxiety due to a recent life transition or traumatic event. When you enter into therapy you and I will spend time discussing your needs and we will work together to create goals that address your specific situation. This may mean learning skills to manage and decrease your depression or anxiety. This may mean learning skills to better manage stress. Sometimes this means working on your relationships and how you communicate with your partner.

I specialize in helping women and femme-identifying persons through the impacts of burnout, relationship trauma, and sexism. Personally, I have endometriosis and understand the deficit in medical support for women. My volunteerism has been deeply rooted in providing legal support for rape victims, and in supporting those impacted by reproductive injustice.

I specialized in women's issues throughout college and have maintained focusing on content related to women's issues, particularly surrounding sex, parenting/pregnancy/postpartum, and self esteem.

As women, we experience so many life transitions. Whether its marriage, a divorce or relationship breakup, having children or becoming empty nesters, we seem to always be in flux. These transitions can often bring up feelings of anxiety, depression and/or grief. Women also have many expectations placed upon them and sometimes self-care becomes ignored and/or avoided which can ultimately lead to burnout.

It is my life's mission to help women recover from the depression and anxiety caused by striving for perfectionism.

For women in particular, life transitions, especially ones that are tied to physical changes in our bodies (puberty, pregnancy, aging, menopause) can greatly impact our views of our selves. At the same time navigating this amidst societal beliefs about women that don't reflect our needs is challenging. My goal is to help women learn to filter through external beliefs, ideas, and messages and learn to trust their own experience and develop more agency and confidence in the choices they make.

It is my life's mission to help women recover from the depression and anxiety caused by striving for perfectionism.

Years of personal experience in Women's groups, Integrative Counseling training to support each woman's unique concerns. Developing a curriculum for a Women's group to also be used in individual treatment.

Let's talk about all things empowerment, self-love, self-compassion, self-worth, and self-esteem!

Do you ever have the thought that life as you want it, is getting away from you? Perhaps you’ve thought that you aren’t living up to the expectations you have for yourself. You’ve spent time and money, reading way too many self-help books but getting stuck in how to actually apply any of it? At the end of the day, you keep coming back to the same, re-occurring thoughts rooted in self-doubt. Thoughts keeping you up at night? Let me teach you how to how to put self-doubt to bed & sleep soundly.

You feel like you have to wear so many hats that it's hard to juggle it all. I specialize in working with women who are feeling anxious, overwhelmed, and burnt out. I help women reconnect to themselves and clarify what's most important to them. Together we'll hone in on what you really want so you can align your actions with your values.

Reproductive health issues can feel incredibly isolating. We can get stuck in the unhelpful comparisons to others, feel trapped in the stigma that comes from societal expectations, and may want to scream at how many years it can take to diagnose or understand complex reproductive health conditions. I hope to provide a nonjudgmental space to sort through and make meaning of these experiences, as well as to provide tools to help you advocate to your care team and communicate needs to loved ones.

Courtney is pro-women and a strong-willed feminist. Women experience this world in unique ways and honoring those experiences as not only authentic but truly valid, is vital to our success. Cultural oppression may have painted women as weak but this message is fueled by the fear of women's true power. Self-realization and self-love are the tools women need to escape the confinement of projected ideals of women.

Our staff has extensive experience supporting women with transition. This includes but is not limited to pre-marital counseling, pregnancy support, miscarriage and child loss grief, infertility, menopause, divorce support, and college transition support.

I have a passion for working with women who have experienced any sort of past or present trauma; Physical Abuse, Verbal Abuse, Emotional Abuse, Sexual Abuse, and Narcissistic spouses. I believe that women who have suffered any kind of trauma need a safe space to talk about their feelings and discuss next steps in their life with no judgement.