My name is Tim Courtois. I am a man with a hunger for experiences of beauty, meaning and truth. I love to feel deeply alive. And I consider it a great honor to walk alongside others in their search for aliveness.

At the time of this writing, I am 45 years old. I am a husband, and a father of both a daughter and a son. I strive daily to live a life of faithfulness, love, gratitude, adventure, and discovery.

I have fought through many seasons of deep suffering, excruciating loss, and heartbreaking failure in my life. I’ve personally received care from several fantastic counselors who really changed my life. (Along the way I also stumbled into the offices of a few mediocre counselors, and one really bad one.) And I’ve wrestled personally with whether and when to turn to medication to help me get to a place of greater thriving.

All that to say, I have often known what it is like to find that my aliveness has taken a back seat to just surviving in this crazy and disintegrated modern world. But I have also known what it is to receive kindness, and to find LIFE reawakening inside of me. So I love to provide others with a taste of kindness: the experience of being seen, welcomed, and even a little disrupted, in a way that opens one up to goodness.

Credentials

I don’t put a great deal of faith in professional credentials, but they do have their place. Here are some of mine:

• Master of Arts in Counseling
• Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) in North Carolina
• Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Michigan
• Specialized training in sexuality:
  • Certificate in Narrative-Focused Trauma Therapy from The Allender Center (training focused on counseling survivors of trauma and sexual abuse).
  • University of Michigan Sexual Health Certificate program, 2019-2020 cohort, with a focus in Sex Therapy and Sexuality Education.
• 18 years of experience as a Professional Counselor
• Completed the Immersion—a nine-month transformative journey of deep nature connection, wilderness skills, and self-discovery at Wilderness Awareness School in Duvall, WA.
• Trained non-mental health professionals in caring for those with mental health struggles.
• Participated in and led many conferences, retreats, and therapy groups.
• Worked with various healing & therapy-based organizations to train lay people in how to better care for those who have suffered childhood trauma.