Mid-Michigan Therapist Dedicated to Grounded Psychological Healing
Evidence-Based Mental Health Counseling for Real-Life Balance
Science-Based Individual Psychotherapy
Partner with a Dedicated Behavioral Health Therapist in Mid-Michigan
As an experienced behavioral health therapist, Courtney Little helps adults identify root causes behind chronic stress and disruptive habits. Rather than applying surface solutions, sessions integrate neuroscience and practical tools tailored to your daily realities. Operating from clinical offices in Lansing and serving communities statewide, care connects internal emotional awareness with concrete action steps. You gain active support to process life transitions, dismantle self-doubt, and establish healthy nervous system regulation for dependable, enduring well-being.
Michigan LARA License #6401008490
Courtney Little, MA, LPC
Personal Clinical Approach And Values
An Intentional Practice Delivering Focused Individual Therapy for Adults
Navigating major life changes, relationship strain, or persistent grief requires more than isolated effort. Mindmend PLLC is structured as an intentional solo practice, ensuring every client receives unhurried, personalized attention directly from licensed professional counselor Courtney Little. By limiting caseload volume, care remains deeply focused on helping analytical professionals, caregivers, and thoughtful adults overcome isolation. You gain targeted strategies to heal past wounds, shift limiting behavioral patterns, and regain an authentic sense of personal agency.
"With all that is happening in the world, you do not have to navigate it alone. I am here to support you in healing old wounds, transforming patterns that keep you feeling stuck or overwhelmed, and applying practical tools for meaningful change."
TARGETED WHOLE-PERSON THERAPY APPROACHES Grounded in Science
Tailored Modalities Including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Choosing the right therapist can be life-changing. At Mindmend PLLC, we offer evidence-based therapy for anxiety, depression, and mood disorders. Whether facing stress, relationship issues, or major transitions, we aim to help you transform limiting patterns. Ready for lasting change? Contact us to discuss your therapy needs.
Somatic Stabilization for Internal Safety
Compassionate Trauma Therapy to Restore Nervous System Equilibrium
Unresolved trauma alters neurological threat responses, leaving you caught in chronic hyper-vigilance, defensive reactions, or complete emotional numbness. Evidence-based trauma therapy focuses on building somatic stabilization and internal security before addressing painful memories, preventing retraumatization throughout recovery. Clients in DeWitt, Okemos, and surrounding Mid-Michigan areas learn physiological regulation techniques to soothe overactivated stress responses. Working collaboratively, we help you process past distressing events safely, restore healthy personal boundaries, and reclaim lasting neurological and emotional calm.
Collaborative one-on-one Sessions
Goal-Oriented Individual Therapy for Harnessing Clear Self-Awareness
High-functioning adults frequently analyze personal struggles intellectually while remaining completely disconnected from physiological stress signals and emotional needs. Focused individual therapy bridges this divide by turning cognitive insights into practical daily behaviors. Through structured clinical interventions, clients learn to establish necessary boundaries, nurture self-worth, and reduce emotional reactivity. Each private session is designed around your specific lifestyle demands, helping you build sustainable coping mechanisms, align choices with genuine values, and cultivate deep fulfillment in everyday life.
Calming The Internal Alarm System
Targeted Anxiety Therapy Designed to Dismantle Chronic Worry Patterns
Persistent anxiety shows up as exhausting what-if spirals, muscle tension, sleep disruptions, and constant physical restlessness. Clinical anxiety therapy treats these symptoms not as personal flaws, but as an overactivated internal defense system that needs recalibration. Using cognitive restructuring alongside physiological down-regulation methods, we unpack underlying fears driving your distress. You develop reliable skills to disrupt panic loops, calm physical agitation, and regain steady confidence when handling professional challenges, relationship uncertainties, and unexpected life demands.
Neurological Reprocessing for Healing
Clinically Proven EMDR Therapy to Resolve Your Lingering Trauma
Distressing experiences often remain improperly stored in the brain, causing past memories to trigger intense present-day emotional and physical reactivity. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing utilizes structured bilateral stimulation to facilitate adaptive neurological memory reconsolidation. By reprocessing painful past events, EMDR therapy diminishes their ongoing emotional charge and weakens trauma triggers. This scientifically validated modality allows clients throughout East Lansing and Grand Ledge to move beyond distressing memories and establish grounded internal peace.
Evidence-Based Care: Reclaim Energy & Direction
Restorative Depression Therapy to Overcome Disconnection & Fatigue
Depression frequently manifests as emotional numbness, profound lethargy, and an inability to experience connection with daily routines or loved ones. When coping strategies deplete under continuous strain, structured depression therapy offers a compassionate, steady framework to rebuild your vitality. We evaluate underlying depressive triggers, challenge harsh internal critical dialogue, and introduce realistic behavioral activation practices. Step by step, therapy helps you process heaviness, reconnect with fulfilling activities, and restore meaningful engagement with the surrounding world.
Confidential Clinical Care
Private Fee Structure & Secure Online Payments
Mindmend PLLC operates as a direct-pay, out-of-network practice to protect your clinical privacy, treatment freedom, and personal health records. Appointments, billing, and card payments are managed through SimplePractice's secure, encrypted client portal. Clients receive comprehensive monthly superbills with relevant diagnostic and procedure codes to submit directly to private insurers for potential reimbursement. This straightforward structure ensures absolute transparency, eliminating surprise medical bills while allowing therapy to focus entirely on your mental health goals.
Individual Sessions
$175
Payment Methods:
Insurance WE ACCEPT:
Michigan Education Special Services Association
Optum
Oscar Health
Oxford
Priority Health
TRICARE
United Medical Resources (UMR)
UnitedHealthcare UHC | UBH
Out-of-Network
Aetna
ASR Health Benefits
Blue Care Network
Blue Cross
Blue Shield
CHIP
McLaren
Medicare
Flexible Care Across MID-Michigan & BEYOND
A Lansing-Based Commercial Office & Offering Statewide Michigan Telehealth
High-quality therapeutic support should integrate seamlessly into your current schedule. Courtney Little offers in-person counseling from a professional office in Lansing, alongside accessible online therapy throughout Michigan. Secure, HIPAA-compliant telehealth allows individuals in Mount Pleasant, Haslett, and Williamston to engage in weekly sessions from the comfort and privacy of their homes. This flexible model ensures consistent clinical care without the disruption of long commutes, fitting therapy into your demanding lifestyle.
Compassionatly Honoring Diverse Minds
Affirming ADHD & AuDHD Therapy Designed for Real Executive Function
Adults living with ADHD or co-occurring autism often endure years of exhausting masking, leading to chronic executive dysfunction, sensory overload, and severe burnout. Neurodivergent-affirming ADHD therapy validates your brain's natural wiring rather than forcing compliance with neurotypical expectations. We work together to unpack internalized shame, dismantle unsustainable pressure, and build sensory-friendly, practical coping systems. You learn to embrace natural processing styles, develop dependable executive strategies, and create fulfilling daily structures that support long-term energy.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Starting therapy brings natural questions about scheduling, technology, and what to expect. Below are details regarding our consultation process, out-of-network insurance reimbursement, and session confidentiality. For more information, feel free to reach out to us anytime.
