Cortney is a parent, a mentor, and a facilitator. She loves supporting adventures into the unfamiliar and unknown.

From pregnancy through the postpartum transition, she helps new parents find their footing, gain confidence, and feel more peaceful through this transformative change.

Cortney offers mentoring for individuals and couples, facilitates parenting support & wellness groups, and offers Birthing From Within® Childbirth Preparation classes.  She is also a reproductive health and wellness therapist, Birthing From Within® Mentor, Birth Arts trained doula, and yoga teacher trained through EmbodiYoga. She’s been leading and facilitating group experiences and and leadership trainings for over two decades. She is passionate about every pregnant person and every family feeling supported and nourished during the journey and transformation through pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting.

Cortney is a Licensed Professional Counselor in PA, and holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Brown University and a M.A. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She completed clinical training at The Midwife Center for Birth & Women’s Health in Pittsburgh, PA, the nation’s largest freestanding birth center, and with Forward Wellness Counseling’s Reproductive Counseling Center. Her clinical style is person centered, strengths-based, trauma-informed, feminist and mindfulness based. She is LGBTQIA+ affirming and committed to understanding and challenging systemic oppression and bias that affects mental health, the counseling field, and maternal and child health.

Born and raised in Central Vermont, after many years of traveling and exploring, she has been building home and community in Pittsburgh since 2009 with her partner and three children. She loves sunshine, traveling, growing, harvesting and preparing food, designing spaces and adventures, moving her body, and creating celebrations and rituals that feed bodies and hearts.