I am a trauma therapist with over 11 years of experience working with youth and families in both public and private settings. In addition to being a clinician, I am also a researcher who continues to study how trauma affects the mind and body. I believe understanding trauma is an important part of healing, so I provide education alongside therapy. We move at your pace, and I offer tools to use outside of sessions to support real, lasting change.
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
In your first session, we focus on creating emotional safety while gaining clarity around what’s bringing you to therapy. We explore current stressors, childhood experiences, and relationship patterns at a pace that feels manageable. You’ll leave with insight, grounding, and a clearer sense of direction moving forward.
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
My greatest strength is helping clients connect childhood trauma to present-day emotions, behaviors, and relationships. I specialize in inner child and attachment-based work, using structured, engaging tools to support healing beyond sessions.
The clients I'm best positioned to serve
I work with teens, college students, mothers and adults who are affected by childhood experiences that are still showing up today. In the short term, childhood trauma can lead to anxiety, sadness, anger, feeling overwhelmed, trouble focusing, or feeling disconnected from others. Over time, it can impact self confidence, boundary setting, people pleasing, relationships, and parenting. Therapy helps build emotional awareness, healthier boundaries, coping skills, and safer relationships so clients can feel more grounded, confident, and in control of their lives.
Trauma-Focused CBT
Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT) helps clients understand trauma responses, manage anxiety, regulate emotions, challenge thoughts, and process experiences at a supportive pace.
Attachment-based
Attachment work explores how early relationships shape trust, boundaries, emotions, and connection, helping clients build relationships with self and others.
Psychoeducation
Psychoeducation teaches clients how trauma affects mind and body, normalizes reactions, increases self awareness, and strengthens coping skills over time.
Narrative
Narrative therapy helps clients separate from trauma stories, understand experiences, reclaim strengths, and rewrite personal meaning with empowerment and choice.
Culturally Sensitive Therapy
Culturally sensitive therapy honors my lived experience as a Black woman and mother, understanding how trauma impacts Black girls and women.
7 ratings with written reviews
August 13, 2025
I was searching through all of the providers selected for me from my filtering and for whatever reason (at that time) I kept coming back to Dr. Kortney. I came back to her 4 times. Scheduled my first session and I don’t regret it one bit! I’m beyond happy I chose her. She is warm, she is welcoming, she is direct, she is comforting, she has awesome ideas and makes me connect dots I never even knew would connect. After each session I feel relieved, I feel empowered and ready for what I need to do.
May 2, 2025
I’ve never felt more aligned with a therapist, and I’m so grateful for the care and clarity Dr. Clinton brings to every session. What sets her apart is how intentional and empowering her approach is. She provides thoughtful exercises and tools that help me continue the work between sessions, which has made a real difference in my growth. She asks the kinds of questions that make you pause and truly reflect, helping you discover insights that stick—not just in the moment, but long after.
April 24, 2025
Kortney is very passionate about her job and she has helped me during difficult times.