Courtney is a Métis Canadian Certified Counsellor with a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology and over 10 years of experience supporting children, youth, adults, couples, and families through a wide range of mental health and life challenges. She is currently completing her Doctor of Counselling and Psychotherapy at Yorkville University, continuing to deepen her clinical knowledge and commitment to culturally responsive care.
Courtney’s approach is trauma-informed, strengths-based, collaborative, and relational. She draws from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Gottman Theory, Motivational Interviewing, and solution-focused therapy, thoughtfully adapting her approach to each client’s needs, goals, and lived experience. She is particularly interested in understanding how trauma, relationships, and emotional patterns shape the way individuals understand themselves and connect with others.
Courtney believes therapy is most effective when clients feel safe, respected, heard, and empowered. Her experience includes supporting clients with trauma, anxiety and depression, relationship concerns, addictions and substance use, grief, adjustment, emotional regulation, and complex psychosocial challenges. Her work with Jordan’s Principle provided meaningful experience supporting children, youth, adults, and families within a First Nation community and strengthened her commitment to culturally responsive and contextually informed practice.
Courtney is committed to ongoing professional development and expanding the ways she can support clients experiencing trauma. She will be completing Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) training in the near future, adding another evidence-informed trauma-focused approach to her clinical practice and to the services offered at Monarch.
