Dr. Courtney Brennaman

Dr. Courtney Brennaman, PHD received her Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from the University of Georgia and her Master’s of Science in Rehabilitation Counseling from Georgia State University, where she also obtained her national certification as a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor (CRC). She moved to Iowa City, Iowa and worked for two years in an outpatient substance use clinic prior to starting her doctoral degree. Prior to completing her doctorate, she completed an APA-accredited internship residency at Nebraska Medicine through the Nebraska Internship Consortium in Professional Psychology and defended her dissertation focusing on the impacts of stress and physical activity on pain. She received her Doctorate of Philosophy in Counseling Psychology from the University of Iowa and completed her post-doctoral fellowship at Health and Rehabilitation Psychology at St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She currently works as a licensed psychologist and independent contractor in the Cedar Rapids area. Her passion for helping others derives from her own experience, seeing her father attend chemical dependency treatment and seeing him change his life, which ultimately changed her life. She believes that surrounding yourself with quality people, programming, and community can have a positive, ever-lasting impact on people’s lives, and that is the goal for Radix Recovery.