About Modern Mind & Heart
& Courtney Rolfe, MA, LCPC
***All sessions are provided via telehealth***
***Due to licensing regulations, clients must be located in Illinois or Florida in order to receive clinical services***
Modern Mind & Heart is an inclusive space, and clients who identify as LGBTQI+ and those in non-traditional relationship structures are safe and welcomed here with open arms. Therapists at Modern Mind & Heart are kink-aware, poly-aware, and gender-affirming. Therapists at Modern Mind & Heart are forever working to be culturally competent, anti-racist, and welcome clients of all ethnicities, backgrounds, and nationalities.
About Modern Mind & Heart
Modern Mind & Heart is on a mission to bring healing and empathy to the world. The most amazing thing happens when we see the world through the lens of autonomic nervous system function and trauma responses. With this lens, we are able to tap into endless empathy and compassion for those around us. We create the safety we and others need to live authentically, and connect with others the way we are wired to do. Bringing awareness to our embodied experience opens the doors to a life of connection, compassion, and wholehearted living.
“If you want to improve the world, start by making people feel safer”. - Dr. Stephen Porges
Modern Mind & Heart takes a skill-building, physiology-based, science-informed approach, helping clients become empowered to create the change they wish to see in their lives.
Modern Mind & Heart uses the science-informed Polyvagal Theory to help clients find ease, connection, safety, and wellness; help clinicians and coaches incorporate science-informed practices into their work; and help organizations incorporate the principles of safety and nervous system regulation into their culture and structures.
Modern Mind & Heart is on a mission to bring safety, compassion, and positive change to the world.
At Modern Mind & Heart, We are:
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Inclusive & Affirming
Modern Mind & Heart works to be a safe space for all individuals. Providers are affirming, and work to create safety and support for clients of all ethnic backgrounds, relationship structures, and gender identities.
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Curious & Compassionate
Modern Mind & Heart believes that relational safety is paramount, and is essential in the path to healing. It is our commitment to foster the safety needed to reshape the nervous system towards connection.
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Trauma Specialists
Modern Mind & Heart seeks to be a reliable resource for the community to understand the impact of trauma - individually, in family systems, and in communities. Understanding trauma is a crucial step in creating a world that is safe and equitable for all.
About Courtney Rolfe
Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, Founder & Therapist
Courtney brings her training, knowledge, and expertise in trauma to help clients heal and find safe connection in the world.
Courtney is a licensed clinical professional counselor located in downtown Chicago, Illinois, on the homelands of the Council of the Three Fires: the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations, as well as the Miami, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Sac, and Fox tribes. Courtney is the founder of Modern Mind & Heart, a psychotherapy private practice offering individual therapy, training, and clinical and/or organizational consultation. Courtney brings her passion for the Polyvagal Theory into the therapy space with clients, and actively teaches and trains about the important role of the autonomic nervous system to clinicians, coaches, and organizations around the world.
Courtney has completed Somatic Experiencing training, and is just weeks away from obtaining Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) credentials. Courtney’s training in trauma work and somatic-based modalities has allowed her to work with clients presenting a wide range of difficulties, including relational conflict, anxiety, depression, emotion regulation, trust issues, professional development, family of origin issues, setting boundaries, and trauma of all types: childhood abuse, sexual trauma, racialized trauma, attachment trauma, and ancestral trauma.
Courtney currently assists and facilitates professional trainings for The Polyvagal Institute, and Deb Dana’s Rhythm of Regulation Foundations training series. Courtney is also a presenter for PESI, teaching clinicians the basics of creating a trauma-informed practice.
Courtney received her master’s degree from Illinois School of Professional Psychology. She is a member of the American Counseling Association. Courtney has a working proficiency of Spanish, and is experienced in working with clients who speak Spanish as their first language.
Courtney uses safe connection as the foundation of therapy work.
Courtney knows that a regulated nervous system is the most important element she can bring to a therapy session.
Once relational trust and safety are established, Courtney will invite clients to start tuning into their own nervous systems to learn the stories and experience happening on that level. Once clients and therapist share a common language, they work together in the gradual process of being curious about, then slowly reshaping, the autonomic nervous system toward internal safety and connection.