CrownTown Counseling | Agent of Change

Agent: noun.  An active or efficient cause that is capable of producing an effect.

Change: verb. To become different; to make someone or something different; to become something else.   

Evolve: verb. To change or develop slowly often into a better, more complex, or advanced state.        

Through an effective, supportive, non-judgmental, and collaborative approach, CrownTown Counseling offers experience, guidance, and knowledge for individuals seeking positive and healthy transformations within themselves and their relationships.

Meet the Founder

Cory stege, M.S., lmft, CA#49037 and az#15543

Cory focuses on establishing a collaborative relationship with her clients in order to promote progress towards goals that have been identified collectively. Through a safe, supportive, and non-judgmental approach, Cory helps her clients gain insight and understanding into their experiences as well as assists clients in developing and implementing healthy and effective coping skills.

Cory offers compassionate and empathic support and guidance as well as implements gentle, direct, and respectful challenges so that her clients feel safe and comfortable with acknowledging and exploring what is working as well as thoughts and behaviors that are contributing to life’s struggles and dissatisfaction. Cory’s approach embodies the significance of the relationship between physical, psychological/emotional, and social aspects of living and assists her clients with establishing and maintaining a balanced wellbeing.

About cory

Cory has been practicing in the field since 2006 and has been licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist in California since 2010.  Cory has also held an active LMFT license in Arizona since 2020. Cory obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Syracuse University in 2005 and her Master of Science of Marriage and Family Therapy from Northwestern University in 2008.  Cory has been a member of CAMFT since 2008 and serves as an alumni mentor for The Family Institute at Northwestern University.  Cory is also an active member of the Coronado Junior Women’s Club.

Cory has been working in private practice since 2016 and has previously worked at The Family Institute at Northwestern University in Chicago, in a hospital setting at Alvarado Parkway Institute in San Diego, as well as spent 5 years working with active duty military service members, reservists, and their dependents on Naval Base Coronado.  

In these clinical settings, Cory provided individual, couples, family, and group therapy and has worked extensively with mood disorders, personality disorders, schizophrenia and psychotic disorders, substance abuse, LGBT, eating disorders, relational and family of origin issues, grief, suicide, domestic violence, child abuse, trauma, sexual abuse, and dual diagnoses. 

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