Courtney Surigao, LCMHC

Courtney Surigao is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) with 18 years of clinical experience helping individuals and families navigate difficult seasons. She focuses on relationship and family issues as well as grief, parenting challenges, coping with life changes, stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related concerns, eating and sleeping difficulties, anger, self-esteem, career questions, mood disorders including bipolar and depression, and related focus areas such as adoption and foster care, blended family dynamics, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness and disability, communication problems, family of origin issues, and end-of-life concerns.

She approaches counseling from a strengths-oriented, client-centered stance and integrates practical modalities to meet each person where they are. Her clinical toolkit includes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Narrative Therapy, Solution-Focused methods, and other collaborative approaches. She frames therapy as an active, often challenging process in which clients and therapist work together to clarify values, identify strengths, set achievable goals, and practice new skills between sessions.

Courtney emphasizes the role of authentic relationships in promoting growth and healing. She draws on personal strengths, faith, values, education, and life experience to inform her work, believing each person carries unique worth and resilience. Her practice may include practical assignments or worksheets to support real-world change and to extend the benefits of sessions into daily life.

Outside of practice, she has been married for 23 years to her college sweetheart and they share three children along with several "borrowed loves" - children they have welcomed into their home in different seasons of life. Courtney aims to provide care with integrity and compassion while helping people move toward greater hope, clarity, and a more abundant sense of life.