About Modern Mind & Heart
& Courtney Rolfe, MA, LCPC
***All sessions are provided via telehealth***
***Due to licensing regulations, clients must be located in Illinois or Florida in order to receive clinical services***
Modern Mind & Heart is an inclusive space, and clients who identify as LGBTQI+ and those in non-traditional relationship structures are safe and welcomed here with open arms. Therapists at Modern Mind & Heart are kink-aware, poly-aware, and gender-affirming. Therapists at Modern Mind & Heart are forever working to be culturally competent, anti-racist, and welcome clients of all ethnicities, backgrounds, and nationalities.
About Modern Mind & Heart
Founded by and led by licensed psychotherapist Courtney Rolfe, Modern Mind & Heart is an organization on a mission to bring healing and empathy to the world. The most amazing thing happens when we see the world through the lens of autonomic nervous system function and trauma responses. With this lens, we are able to tap into endless empathy and compassion for those around us. We create the safety we and others need to live authentically, and connect with others the way we are wired to do. Bringing awareness to our embodied experience opens the doors to a life of connection, compassion, and wholehearted living.
“If you want to improve the world, start by making people feel safer”. - Dr. Stephen Porges
Modern Mind & Heart takes a skill-building, physiology-based, science-informed approach, helping clients become empowered to create the change they wish to see in their lives.
Modern Mind & Heart uses the science-informed Polyvagal Theory to help clients find ease, connection, safety, and wellness; help clinicians and coaches incorporate science-informed practices into their work; and help organizations incorporate the principles of safety and nervous system regulation into their culture and structures.
Modern Mind & Heart is on a mission to bring safety, compassion, and positive change to the world.
At Modern Mind & Heart, We are:
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Inclusive & Affirming
Modern Mind & Heart works to be a safe space for all individuals. Providers are affirming, and work to create safety and support for clients of all ethnic backgrounds, relationship structures, and gender identities.
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Curious & Compassionate
Modern Mind & Heart believes that relational safety is paramount, and is essential in the path to healing. It is our commitment to foster the safety needed to reshape the nervous system towards connection.
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Trauma Specialists
Modern Mind & Heart seeks to be a reliable resource for the community to understand the impact of trauma - individually, in family systems, and in communities. Understanding trauma is a crucial step in creating a world that is safe and equitable for all.
About Courtney Rolfe
Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, Founder & Therapist
Courtney brings her training, knowledge, and expertise in trauma to help clients heal and find safe connection in the world.
Courtney is the founder of Modern Mind & Heart, a psychotherapy private practice offering individual therapy, training, and clinical and/or organizational consultation. Courtney brings her passion for the Polyvagal Theory into the therapy space with clients, and actively teaches and trains about the important role of the autonomic nervous system to clinicians, coaches, and organizations around the world.
Courtney is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP). She has also completed Level 1 Internal Family Systems (IFS) training and Level 1 training in Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR).
With a strong foundation in trauma-informed and somatic-based modalities, Courtney works with clients experiencing a wide range of challenges, including relational conflict, anxiety, depression, emotion regulation difficulties, trust issues, professional development concerns, family-of-origin dynamics, boundary setting, and trauma in its many forms—such as childhood abuse, sexual trauma, racialized trauma, attachment trauma, and ancestral trauma.
Courtney has assisted and facilitated various professional trainings for The Polyvagal Institute, Deb Dana’s Rhythm of Regulation Foundations training series, and PESI, teaching clinicians the basics of creating a polyvagal-guided and trauma-informed practice.
Courtney received her master’s degree from Illinois School of Professional Psychology. She is a member of the American Counseling Association. Courtney has a working proficiency of Spanish, and is experienced in working with clients who speak Spanish as their first language.
Courtney uses safe connection as the foundation of therapy work.
Courtney knows that a regulated nervous system is the most important element she can bring to a therapy session.
Once relational trust and safety are established, Courtney will invite clients to start tuning into their own nervous systems to learn the stories and experience happening on that level. Once clients and therapist share a common language, they work together in the gradual process of being curious about, then slowly reshaping, the autonomic nervous system toward internal safety and connection.
Polyvagal Prompts
Finding Connection and Joy through Guided Explorations
Published by Norton Professional Books
by Deb Dana (Author), Courtney Rolfe (Author)
Discover the remarkable ways your nervous system works in service of your safety and well-being.
Polyvagal Theory—developed by Dr. Stephen Porges and brought into clinical practice by Deb Dana—has transformed the way therapists support their clients, offering a powerful pathway toward healing for those who have experienced hardship or trauma.
In Polyvagal Prompts, Deb Dana and Courtney Rolfe invite readers into a guided exploration of their nervous systems through thoughtful questions and experiential exercises. Designed to be written in, this interactive resource encourages readers to notice their internal states, listen with curiosity, and reflect on what they discover.
The prompts can be used as a daily practice or explored at one’s own pace, and are especially valuable for supporting clients in tracking and deepening their polyvagal-informed therapy work.
However you choose to engage, Polyvagal Prompts offers a meaningful opportunity to begin the life-changing process of befriending your nervous system.