Courtney Gray

Courtney’s therapeutic practice is guided by the values of authenticity, liberation, creativity, and collaboration. Courtney primarily utilizes narrative, relational, psychodynamic, and existential approaches to cultivate a warm, responsive relationship with each client that honors your pace as you explore and grow. Their practice also aims to address the power of language to shape the meaning of our past and current experiences, as well as open up new venues of agency and expression going forward. They hope to nurture your ability to seek meaning, pleasure, and connection in your life. 

Courtney brings their lived experience as a queer, non-binary, and neurodivergent person to their therapeutic work. They are passionate about acknowledging the inherently political nature of therapy in order to better foster personal and collective experiences of liberation. They welcome clients to name and grapple with the sociopolitical, environmental, and economic instability and grief in our shared culture in their therapeutic space. While holding the weight of cultural and interpersonal harms, Courtney’s therapeutic approach honors the potential for authentic desire and creative expression to be a source of transformation and healing. 

While Courtney works with a variety of folks, they specialize in supporting queer and neurodivergent clients in exploring the ways in which those identities can be intertwined and co-constitutive. In their work with queer, neurodivergent, chronically ill, and/or clients who have histories of complex trauma and grief, Courtney hopes to support clients as they identify and reconcile feelings of shame or brokenness and tend to experiences of isolation, pain, and disability with tenderness and compassion. They also encourage clients to develop authentic, self-led approaches to unique challenges that best align with the client’s values and aspirations. In this way, they treasure opportunities to assist clients’ in developing understandings of their identity, gender, sexuality, and intimate connections on their own terms. 

By deeply honoring each client’s personal goals and pace, Courtney aspires to engender and reinforce their clients’ sense of agency, autonomy, and hope for their own journey. In all therapeutic work, Courtney is passionate about attending to the presence of grief and working with clients to create personal rituals and practices of meaning-making around life’s pains and sorrows that may help alchemize suffering into a sense of purpose and connection.  

Courtney recently completed their clinical training at DePaul University. Previously, Courtney worked in education and critical media studies.