About Courtney Hall, LLMSW
Therapist for Children, Teens, Adults, & Families | Trauma, Anxiety, and Neurodiversity-Affirming Care
Courtney works with children, adolescents, adults, and families carrying trauma, anxiety, depression, emotional overwhelm, difficulty in relationships, and the stress of a life changing shape. Much of her background is in women's advocacy, sitting with survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. Courtney believes that therapy is build on trust, which comes through care, steadiness, and a collaborative relationship by the client actively participating in the direction of therapy. Her view is that the depth of the work is tied to what the client and therapist build together, and that the hardest moments of a person's life become approachable inside a therapeutic relationship built on trust, mutual understanding, and a real commitment to the person's care.
Courtney earned her Master of Social Work from Northern Michigan University after an earlier academic background in biology and anthropology. That path taught her to come at the question of how a person becomes who they are from several angles at once, and she carries the same curiosity into clinical work, looking at the biology, the history, the relationships, and the environments behind what a client is living with now.
Before joining Michigan Wellbeing, Courtney spent several years as a Residential Advocate at the Women's Resource Center of Northern Michigan, staffing a 24-hour crisis line and connecting clients to housing, legal, and community resources, and she completed her clinical internship there as well, providing individual therapy to children through older adults in both scheduled sessions and walk-in crisis. Sitting with people during the most acute stretches of their lives taught her how to stay present through a crisis without rushing anyone toward a resolution they are not ready for, and how often what looks like a personal struggle is also a systemic one. She brings that grounded presence into longer-term therapeutic work.
Areas of Expertise:
Trauma histories
Domestic Violence
Domestic Abuse
Strength-based Care
Family Support
Women’s Issues
Courtney works from the belief that clients arrive already carrying innate strengths, and that much of therapy is helping them recognize those.
Courtney’s 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. 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, starting 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 strengths, build coping strategies that fit their actual lives, and move forward in ways that feel true to them. 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.
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