Meet the Team
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Courtney Grimes, LCSW | Owner/Founder | Clinical Director
Courtney’s passion for helping others is evident upon meeting her. Through the power of acceptance and commitment, Courtney is able to facilitate lasting change among individuals, families and systems by promoting hope throughout all circumstance. Throughout Courtney’s work as a psychotherapist at Symmetry Counseling, and Clinical Director for the non-profit Renewed, she realized there was a large gap in treatment services for anxiety and depression in Nashville. The Extended Outpatient program is designed to bridge the gap between IOP and OP services, while providing a welcoming community for clients.
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Mackenzie Fox, LPC-MHSP | Founding Member | Director of Operations
Mackenzie Fox is a Nashville native who holds a Master’s of Arts degree in Mental Health Counseling from Trevecca Nazarene University. She specializes in treatment of anxiety & depression and co-occurring disorders including eating disorders, substance abuse, and trauma. As a team member of The Collective, Mackenzie aims to bring authentic, trusting and supportive energy to everyone she encounters and cultivate that within others.
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Avery Loveridge | Founding Member | Director of Admissions
Avery is the Director of Admissions at The Collective. From the very beginning of our establishment in 2020, Avery has been an integral part of our journey as a founding member. With a passion for creating a supportive and nurturing environment, she has been instrumental in shaping and developing the collective into what it is today.
Avery’s role involves overseeing all non-clinical aspects of the program, ensuring that each individual's experience is seamless and tailored to their unique needs. Avery’s background in administration allows me to navigate the intricate details that contribute to our collective success.
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Erica Hazlehurst, LCSW | Founding Member | Psychotherapist
Erica loves helping individuals through their anxiety, depression and grief. She has worked with children, adolescents, adults, and families. Erica's past experience includes working as a clinical hospice social worker, where she helped patients and families through the end of life transitions, complicated grief, and traumatic loss. She has also worked in multiple settings with families and children with extensive histories of trauma.
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Chris Hinson, Ed. S., NCC | Psychotherapist
Born in Caracas, Venezuela and raised in Tennessee, Chris received an Education Specialist degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Middle Tennessee State University. He specializes in the treatment of anxiety and depression, and works with co-occurring disorders such as substance abuse, trauma, and relationship abuse. Chris deeply believes in The Collective’s community and is thrilled to welcome clients into its living and breathing social health philosophy.
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Mary Ousley Owen, MA | Psychotherapist
Mary Ousley (MO) resides in Nashville, TN and holds a Masters of Arts in Mental Health Counseling from Belmont University. She grew up in Jackson, Mississippi and earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology and art at The University of Mississippi. Mary Ousley is passionate about working with children, adolescents, and young adults seeking connection, balance, self-awareness, and healing when facing emotional struggles, school-related issues, relationship challenges, behavioral issues, life-transitions, and self-esteem.
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Clare Gannon, LMSW | Psychotherapist
Born and raised in New Jersey, but a proud two time graduate from the University of Missouri, Clare is excited to bring her wide range of experiences to The Collective. Clare is a Licensed Master of Social Work who is eager to serve her community. She has worked with a variety of clients in the juvenile and prison settings and through that has found a passion for access to mental health services as a preventative health care measure. She has also worked with family units and with teens during their high school to college transitions. Clare believes in finding each person's individual strengths and creating a unique care approach for everyone she meets.
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Jamison Worley, MS, RDN, LDN | Founding Member | Registered Dietitian
Jamison is a native of Franklin, TN and completed her nutrition and dietetics degree at the University of Tennessee before migrating up north to Boston, MA to complete her Masters degree in Nutrition along with her dietetic internship at Simmons College. She enjoys helping clients find healthier relationships with both food and their bodies by using an evidence-based, non-diet, Health at Every Size (HAES) approach in her nutrition counseling.
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Anne Rankin Meade, APN | Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
Anne Rankin Meade, APN, is a board-certified Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. Having graduated with honors from Vanderbilt University School of Nursing with her Masters of Science in Nursing degree in 2007, she has had sixteen years of experience both as an ICU nurse, as well as in the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner role. Licensed to treat clients across the lifespan, she utilizes a holistic approach to mental health, and seeks to help each client improve their overall quality of life by being a true patient advocate.
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Erin Watt, MS, CPC | Family Coach
Erin Watt is an experienced consultant and Holistic Relationship Coach known for her empathetic yet direct style of working with clients - especially those wanting to improve attachment issues in relationships. Erin has significant training in attachment theory, motivational interviewing, experiential therapy, psychodrama, family constellations and various metaphysical practices for spiritual growth and advancement. Erin believes that relationships are the most meaningful part of life and spent her entire career developing curriculum to make relationships easier.
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Reilly Van Dyke | Masters Level Intern Therapist
Reilly is a Master level student in the Mental Health Counseling program at Belmont University. She graduated with a BA in English from SUNY Albany in 2017 and a graduate certificate in trauma studies from SUNY Oswego in 2022.
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Isabella McShea | Masters Level Intern Therapist
Isabella moved to Nashville to pursue her Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Vanderbilt and is thrilled to be a clinical intern with The Collective. Rooted in her undergraduate education at Colorado College, which focused on the intersections of sociology and public health.
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Danielle Latham, LMT | Massage Therapistt
After 16 years of experience, Danielle has honed a skill set and philosophy of massage as something that goes beyond just simply making the body feel better. It’s a tool to help you communicate with your own body and uncover the story of your life. Massage helps to shine a light on where you’re out of alignment with your truest self - not only physically, but on deeper levels as well. Danielle is an interpreter of the story your body is telling when she massages you. Her initial training from the MountainHeart School of Bodywork in Colorado in 2004, covered the spectrum from clinical to energetic massage modalities.
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Luna Yoga
Luna Yoga is a sacred space for all and is dedicated to the education and practice of yoga while honoring yoga’s roots. Our classes are designed to lay the framework for a deeper, more expansive understanding of the self, which leads to personal change. We are deeply committed to community care and living our yoga on and off the mat. Whether you are new to yoga or have a long-standing practice here at Luna Yoga we invite you to come as you are with a willingness to grow and learn together in a space where you feel supported.
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Leah Long, LPC | Outpatient Therapist
Leah specializes in treatment of substance abuse, trauma, co- dependency, depression, anxiety, personality disorders, mood disorders and relationship problems. She has experience in working with displaced populations to assist in navigating ways to their identified life goals. Leah affirms and works with all humans and is an advocate for the LGBTQ+ community. She has experience working with adolescents and adults.