About Courtney Hall, LLMSW
Therapist for Children, Teens, Adults, & Families | Trauma, Anxiety, and Neurodiversity-Affirming Care
Courtney Hall works with children, adolescents, adults, and families across a wide range of concerns, including trauma, anxiety, depression, emotional overwhelm, interpersonal difficulty, and the life transitions that quietly reshape how a person understands themselves. Reaching out for support asks something real of people, and she treats that first step as significant rather than routine. Her work is built on authenticity, compassion, and collaboration, and on the belief that therapy does its deepest work when a client feels seen and heard without any part of their experience being judged.
Courtney earned her Master of Social Work from Northern Michigan University, arriving in the field after an earlier academic background in biology and anthropology. That path still shapes how she thinks, since studying the body and studying culture ask a version of the same question, which is how a person comes to be the way they are. She carries that curiosity into clinical work, staying interested in the biology, the history, the relationships, and the environments that shape what a client is living with now rather than treating a symptom as though it arrived from nowhere.
Before joining Michigan Wellbeing, Courtney spent several years at a women's resource center, where she built a strong foundation in crisis intervention and advocacy. Sitting with people during the most acute stretches of their lives taught her to stay steady when a situation is unresolved and frightening, and to recognize how often what looks like a personal struggle is also a systemic one. She brings that steadiness into longer-term therapeutic work, along with a practical sense of what people actually need in order to feel safe enough to begin.
Courtney works from the belief that clients arrive already carrying innate strengths, and that much of therapy is helping them recognize what is theirs and learn to use it.
Her clinical range is broad and deliberately integrative. She draws on trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy, internal family systems and parts work, solution-focused brief therapy, play therapy, and structural and narrative approaches to family work, choosing among them based on who is in front of her rather than fitting every client into a single framework. With younger children that can mean meeting them through play, where feelings become visible before they become sayable. With adults it often means parts work, exploring the protective strategies that once made sense and now cost more than they give. With families it tends to mean looking at patterns and structure, at the roles people have taken on and the stories a family tells about itself.
Courtney also works from a neurodiversity-affirming lens, with experience supporting ADHD and autistic clients across the lifespan, and she starts from the position that a nervous system working differently is still working, and that the task is understanding how. Her aim is for clients to reconnect with their own strengths, build coping strategies that fit their actual lives, and move forward in ways that feel true to them rather than borrowed from someone else's idea of progress. What she hopes people take from the work is the experience of having had someone alongside them while they figured out who they are and what they want next.
Let’s take the next step together.
HOW WE’re different
Learn more about our approach to therapy and holistic wellness care.
how to GET STARTED
Learn more about how to begin therapy + insurance and costs.