Courtney Miller, M.A.
Staff Counselor, SIUE Counseling Services
Preferred Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
- Master of Arts (M.A.)
- Clinical Mental Health Counseling
- McKendree University
- Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
- Psychology
- Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Courtney has been providing counseling services to the students of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville since 2018. In addition to her current role, she has served in the role of Practicum Counselor from August 2017 to May 2018 as a part of her supervised clinical experience.
Courtney uses an integrative approach in counseling, emphasizing Cognitive-Behavioral, Person-Centered, and Adlerian frameworks. She has co-facilitated the Stress and Anxiety Management group in addition to workshops on Meditation and Mindfulness. She has experience in a wide variety of settings, including providing supportive services to adopted children and their families as well as working with preschool-aged children, emphasizing learning, empathy, emotion management, social skills, and attachment. Courtney was raised by her mother and grandparents, and has a younger sister. She enjoys spending time with her family and three dogs, trying out new places, and being outdoors.
In her current role as Staff Counselor, Courtney values Counseling Services’ mission by promoting the personal, social, emotional, and cognitive growth of students. Areas of special interest include anxiety, acculturation among first-generation college students, stress management, relationship concerns, self-esteem, and family of origin issues.
“It becomes easier for me to accept myself as a decidedly imperfect person, who by no means functions at all times in the way in which I would like to function. This must seem to some like a very strange direction in which to move. It seems to me to have value because the curious paradox is that when I accept myself as I am, then I can change.”
~ Carl R. Rogers