Hello and welcome to The Collective!
I am so happy that you’re here.

When I first began to dream of The Collective community and this program, I knew I was stumbling upon something very special. Through my work in private practice as a psychotherapist, I hear all day - every day - from amazing, beautiful, kind, smart and funny people about how lonely they all are. I began to see first hand how often that loneliness was spiraling people into dark depression and often times crippling anxiety. That depression and anxiety was being managed through alcohol, drugs, eating disorders, shopping, you name it!

Additionally, I have worked with so many clients who have come home from amazing treatment centers, rehabs and higher levels of care. When they re-enter their daily lives they are using all the wonderful, amazing tools and resources that they learned while they were away, and they are on fire for their recovery process! Slowly but surely, many of them re-enter a life that is the same life they left - the same circumstances that made them sick in the first place. And what happens? They go right back to the same behaviors they used before - a relapse into depression, anxiety, addiction, etc.

And it began to occur to me, that what many of us are missing in this life is healthy community…..a tribe. If we do not have the opportunity to create a sustainable environmental change in our lives, if our circles and circumstances never evolve, chances of us relapsing into mental illness and dysfunctional behaviors are pretty high.

When I first moved to Nashville, I didn’t know anyone - not a soul. I felt all alone in my life, going from school to work to home, school to work to home. I spent all of my free time by myself, spiraling in my head and wondering what was so wrong with me that I couldn’t make any friends? I got sadder and sicker. It wasn’t until I finally found my tribe, that I finally felt seen and valued, that I truly began to heal at my core!

Humans are pack animals, and when we are siloed off and separated from each other, we get sick. With the increase in technology, social media and internet-based communication, we are getting more and more separated as a society.

The Collective is a welcoming, beautiful, safe community for all of us to connect and heal from depression, anxiety and loneliness at our core. It’s an opportunity to do deeper work, heal, and stay connected with others who have done the same. Whatever your walk in life is, whatever keeps you up at night, for whatever reason you feel alone, I assure you, we are here. I humbly invite you to reach out, come talk with us and see what this is all about.

We are all in this together.

All my love,
Courtney