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Constance McConnell

Courageous Healing PC is a virtual therapy practice led by Constance McConnell, serving clients in North Carolina, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Illinois. The practice is built for women navigating life transitions, grief, loss, identity changes, and the quiet pressure of holding everything together while trying to understand what comes next.

Her approach is thoughtful, collaborative, and grounded. Instead of relying on rushed advice or one-size-fits-all language, Constance makes space for the complexity of your lived experience, including culture, relationships, work, family roles, identity, faith or values, and the ways your nervous system has learned to protect you.

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  • Individual therapy for seniors and adults

    • Anxiety, Depression, Stress management, Women's issues, Trauma

    • Family issues, Grief or loss, Maternal mental health

    • Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) - Wisconsin, Illinois, Virginia, North Carolina

    • Out-of-State Telehealth - Florida)

    • Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) - Minnesota, Iowa

    • Master of Social Work (MSW) - University of Illinois At Urbana-ChampaignDescription text goes here


Providing Virtual Therapy in

North Carolina

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Wisconson

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Minnesota

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Illinois

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North Carolina 〰️ Wisconson 〰️ Minnesota 〰️ Illinois 〰️

A virtual therapy space for women in transition

Courageous Healing PC supports women who are moving through seasons that have changed how life feels. Some clients come after a loss, a role shift, a relationship change, a career transition, or a long stretch of feeling disconnected from themselves. Others arrive with no single crisis, only the clear sense that the way they have been coping no longer fits.

The practice is virtual, which means therapy can happen from a private space that feels accessible and familiar. For many professional women, caregivers, neurodivergent clients, LGBTQ+ clients, Black women, and women balancing multiple responsibilities, virtual therapy can reduce the pressure of adding one more commute or waiting room to an already full week.

Care shaped by courage, clarity, and compassion

The name Courageous Healing reflects a belief that healing often asks something brave from us. Not performance. Not perfection. Often, the courageous part is telling the truth, slowing down enough to feel, or admitting that a chapter has ended even when the next one is not clear yet.

Constance’s work centers care that is respectful, direct, and emotionally honest. Clients are invited to bring the full context of their lives into the room, not just the most polished version. That matters when therapy includes grief, identity changes, burnout, relationship patterns, or the layered experience of being seen and unseen in different parts of life.

In sessions, you can expect a balance of reflection and practical attention. Insight matters, but so does what happens after the session ends, when you return to work, family, decisions, and the real-life situations that brought you to therapy.

Support for grief, loss, and identity changes

Loss does not always look the way people expect. It may be the death of someone you love, the ending of a relationship, a move away from a familiar community, a shift in health, a change in career identity, or the realization that a version of you had to disappear in order for you to survive.

Courageous Healing PC offers space to process what has changed and what those changes mean. Therapy may help you name what you are carrying, understand patterns that intensify pain, and practice responding to yourself with more care instead of constant criticism.

This work can be especially meaningful when you are trying to function while grieving. You may be answering emails, parenting, leading meetings, showing up for others, and still feeling like something in you is standing still. Therapy can give that part of you somewhere to be heard.

What kind of clients does Courageous Healing PC support?

Courageous Healing PC serves women navigating life transitions, grief, loss, and identity changes, with care that honors the reality that no client’s story exists in isolation. Many clients are Black women, LGBTQ+ clients, neurodivergent clients, and professional women who want therapy that recognizes both personal pain and the wider systems, expectations, and relationships shaping their lives.

You may feel drawn to this practice if you are:

  • Moving through a major life transition and unsure who you are becoming

  • Grieving a death, relationship, community, role, dream, or past version of yourself

  • Questioning old patterns that helped you survive but now feel limiting

  • Carrying emotional exhaustion while still appearing composed and dependable

  • Seeking therapy that respects culture, identity, boundaries, and lived experience

  • Wanting support that is steady, thoughtful, and not filled with empty encouragement

If life transition is the center of what brings you here, you can also explore the life transitions therapy page for more focused support.

How therapy with Constance can feel

Therapy with Constance is meant to feel steady, human, and collaborative. You do not have to arrive with perfect words, a clear goal, or a neatly organized history. Many clients begin with fragments: “I’m tired,” “I don’t feel like myself,” “I thought I would be further along,” or “I don’t know why this still hurts.”

From there, sessions may include slowing down what feels tangled, naming emotions without judging them, noticing patterns, and connecting current struggles to the experiences that shaped them. The work may also include practicing boundaries, exploring identity, building self-understanding, and making decisions that align more closely with your values.

What you can expect:

  • A pace that allows room for both reflection and practical next steps

  • Care that does not require you to minimize your identity or context

  • Attention to grief, transition, relationships, work, and self-trust

  • Space to speak honestly without having to manage the therapist’s comfort

  • Support for noticing protective patterns without shaming yourself for having them

A grounded approach to change

Change can be disorienting, even when it is chosen. A new job, a breakup, a move, a diagnosis, a caregiving shift, or a deeper understanding of your identity can leave you feeling both relieved and unsettled. Courageous Healing PC treats that complexity as real, not as a problem to rush past.

Constance’s approach may help you understand what this season is asking of you. Sometimes that means grieving what did not happen. Sometimes it means learning how to stop shrinking inside roles that no longer fit. Sometimes it means building enough internal steadiness to make one honest decision at a time.

The goal is not to force certainty. It is to help you listen more clearly to yourself, respond to your needs with less avoidance, and create a way forward that can hold both courage and tenderness.

Courageous Healing PC is guided by values that shape how clients are met, supported, and respected. These values are not slogans. They are meant to show up in the tone of sessions, the questions asked, the attention paid to context, and the care taken with each client’s story.

Core values include:

  • Emotional honesty: making room for what is true, even when it is complicated

  • Cultural humility: honoring identity, lived experience, and the impact of systems

  • Collaboration: treating therapy as work done with you, not to you

  • Respect for difference: affirming LGBTQ+ clients, neurodivergent clients, Black women, and clients whose lives do not fit narrow assumptions

Practical integration: connecting insight to the choices, boundaries, and relationships you navigate outside session

These values help create a therapy space where you can be thoughtful without being overanalyzed, supported without being patronized, and challenged without being pushed past your capacity.

Our Values

Begin With a Complimentary Consultation

f you are considering therapy with Constance McConnell, the next step is to schedule a complimentary consultation. This brief conversation gives you a chance to share what is bringing you to therapy, ask practical questions, and get a sense of whether Courageous Healing PC feels like the right fit for this season of your life.

To take the next step, schedule a complimentary consultation. If you are specifically navigating grief, loss, identity changes, or a major life shift, you may also want to visit the life transitions therapy page before booking.

Schedule a Complimentary Consultation