Meet the Team
Hi, I'm Cortney!
Iām so glad youāre here. Iām the founder of You Can Heal with Us. Iāve invested hundreds of hours in mastering my skills as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and trauma-informed coach from top trauma experts like Dr. Peter Levine, Diane Poole Heller, Dr. Stephen Porges, Frank Anderson and Deb Dana.
Iām on a mission to help highly resilient and ambitious women just like you feel empowered to heal from past traumas.
When I first started my healing journey, I didnāt know that my anxiety and insomnia were the result of how unsafe I felt in my body. In fact, none of my doctors or mental health practitioners even mentioned my body.
Can you relate?
I've also discovered that many of us have tried to feel heard many times before, but the environment or relationship wasnāt safe or able to hold the space for it. ā£
Being in relationships or environments that donāt feel safe conditions us to believe that our story isnāt valid or that it didnāt matter. ā£
Your story does matter, girl.
I know how scary it is to speak up in fear that you may be rejected, judged, or worse, that no one will believe you. ā£
This is why a pivotal step toward healing is allowing yourself to be heard by people who can safely hold space and reintroduce what safety feels like to your body.
This is also why Iām committed to creating the best somatic healing programs, so you can experience feeling heard and safe.
Hi, I'm Michelle!
I am so excited that youāre here! During my time as a fitness professional for almost a decade, I knew a thing or two about health and wellnessā¦ or so I thought. Iāve worked with countless clients over the years helping them to lose weight, lower blood pressure, increase muscle mass, and so forth.
However, I began noticing that even though my clients were reaching their goals on paper, they either werenāt consistent long term or they remained unfulfilled in their personal lives. They were still repeating the same dysfunctional patterns over and over again, stuck in a vicious cycle. Thatās when I decided to leave the fitness industry and embark on a new journey.
After investing in numerous trainings and courses to become a trauma-informed coach, it all makes sense now. YOU make sense! There is a unique reason that you function the way that you do. There is a reason that youāre stuck on that merry go round of toxicity in that relationshipā¦ and thereās a way to safely get off.
It is my lifeās work to coach you, walk alongside you, and cheer you back to safety. It wasnāt until I started doing this work on myself that I found true fulfillment and purpose in my own life and within my relationships. It is an honor to be able to share this work with you. You can heal with us!
You are safe here.
When you feel safe, you will begin to heal.
Our Training & Education
Experiencing trauma alone is not enough to help other people navigate and heal from theirs. Rest assured, we have all had extensive training in our approaches.Ā
Cortney is listedĀ in the directory of Somatic Experiencing Practitioners (SEP) atĀ traumahealing.orgĀ and she not only has her Somatic Experiencing Practitioner Certificate that requires an extensive 3 years of training, but is also a Somatic Experiencing Assistant to Trainings at the Institute.
All of our practitioners are actively under the training and education of the Somatic Experiencing Institute atĀ traumahealing.org. We also all have extensive training in other trauma informed modalities such as Somatic Attachment, Internal Family Systems and Polyvagal Theory.
We are different, but very much still trained, educated and credible in our approachā¦ but what makes us even more credible, inĀ our opinion, is that all of our practitioners have endured significant complex trauma and overcome it. So yes, we have lived experience of the pain, but more importantly the healing and training required for us to be well equipped to help you navigate yours safely and effectively. Our coaching practice has also been open since 2019 helping 100s of women (and men) to heal and have testimonies as evidence of that.
What Our Clients Are SayingRecently Featured Podcasts
The Renaissance Podcast
Is your Nervous System getting in the way of meeting your goals? What you can do about that? This is a great listen for entrepreneurs, creatives, and really anyone who wants to understand why the self-development, talk therapy, or healing work youāve done isnāt working.Ā
Hello You Darling Girl
Understand whatĀ Somatic Experiencing Therapy is and how it is beneficial in helping you to heal, get past trauma and regulate your nervous system. This therapy is slow, gentle, playful, fun andĀ fascinating.Ā We discuss how trauma and stress can cause a malfunction and imbalance in the nervous system and how that can manifest as a bad or anxious mood, health issue, fatigue and many other ways.
Aktivate Podcast
Cortney is a trauma-informed coach, speaker and advocate. She founded You Can Heal With Us, a trauma-informed coaching practice which offers trauma-informed programs to equip highly-resilient and ambitious women with education, resources and tools to heal from their past so they can reach their full potential.
