MEET COURTNEY BROWN, LCPC, C-DBT
This was never meant to be just
a therapy practice.
I’m Courtney, a therapist, educator, consultant, and the person behind Obstacles Under Recovery.
O.U.R. has grown into a place where women can come back to themselves, therapists can get support for the parts of private practice no one taught them, and organizations can build healthier ways of supporting the people inside them.
Different kinds of work. Same belief underneath all of it: we are always improving, evolving, and recovering.
HOW O.U.R. STARTED
Improving. Evolving. Recovering. There was never supposed to be a finish line.
O.U.R. started with a community event.
Afterward, I kept thinking about why I wanted to do it again. What I kept coming back to was that almost all of us are carrying something, and almost all of us are working through something too.
There isn’t a point where you suddenly get to say, “That’s it. I’m completely healed. Nothing else to work on.” We change. Life changes. The work changes with us.
That became Obstacles Under Recovery.
And the acronym mattered just as much. O.U.R. was intentional because I never pictured this as one person doing the work alone. I wanted to create the kind of space where people could be honest about what they were carrying, understand it, and have somewhere real to work through it.
THE PERSON BEHIND THE WORK
Different rooms. Same way of showing up.
Courtney Brown,
LCPC, C-DBT
I’m a therapist, educator, and consultant, but I don’t become a completely different person depending on which room I’m in.
I want the work to feel real, grounded, honest, and human. I’m not interested in making something sound more complicated than it needs to be or hiding behind language that leaves people wondering what I actually mean.
Sometimes that means using an analogy instead of a textbook definition. Sometimes it means slowing down long enough to understand what is actually happening before trying to change it. And sometimes it means acknowledging that who you are, what you’ve lived, and the systems around you are part of the conversation too.
“We have to understand Part A before we can heal Part B."
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