Courtney received a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders with minor concentrations in English and Spanish from Harding University. She went on to receive her Master’s Degree in Speech-Language Pathology from Texas Christian University. Currently, Courtney holds a Georgia Speech-Language Pathology license and maintains a Certificate of Clinical Competence from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

Courtney began her speech-language pathology career in the Texas public school system where she served a diverse group of children with a variety of diagnoses in an early childhood school. She enjoyed close collaboration with special education teachers to co-teach lessons in the Preschool Program for Children with Disabilities (PPCD) self-contained unit, implemented augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems (e.g., LAMP Words for Life, picture exchange), and provided therapy for bilingual and monolingual children with phonological, articulation, language, and fluency disorders. During her last two years working for the school district, Courtney partnered with other therapists to develop the school district’s first Early Childhood Assessment Team and served as one of three speech-language pathologists on the team, assessing children with suspected speech and language, autism spectrum, cognitive, and other developmental disorders. Courtney also has experience working in the pediatric home health setting. Here, she was grateful for the opportunity to team up with parents to achieve stronger outcomes than otherwise possible. In this setting, she also worked with a wider range of ages and implemented teletherapy with some of her families. Courtney believes in the power of play to improve language and recently completed a three-part course outlining the connection between play and therapeutic success.

Courtney is passionate about serving children and families —through speech-language pathology as well as foster care. She and her husband spent three years as licensed foster parents in Texas before moving to Georgia with their two young children. In her free time, Courtney can often be found exploring the Atlanta area with her family, crafting and embroidering, listening to podcasts, and traveling.