Dr. Cortney Taylor completed her undergraduate education with a dual degree in psychology and neurobiology at the University of Washington in Seattle and attended medical school at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx. She then trained as a pediatrician, child psychiatrist, and adult psychiatrist in a five-year integrated program in Providence, Rhode Island at Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
After graduating, Dr. Taylor returned to the Pacific Northwest, where she was born and raised. She started at Lifeworks NW in September of 2020. Since that time, she has practiced in roles throughout the organization serving clients across the lifespan, including at Hawthorn Walk-In Clinic, Adult Rehabilitation Services, Child and Family Outpatient, Transitional Age Youth, Nickerson Adolescent Day Treatment, and Assertive Community Treatment.
Dr. Taylor is Director of the LifeWorks NW Bridge Clinic, which provides urgent psychiatric services to youth in the tri-county area. Dr. Taylor has a faculty appointment at Oregon Health & Science University and Washington State University and teaches child psychiatry fellows, psychiatry residents, medical , and nurse practitioner students. Dr. Taylor transitioned into the role of Medical Director of LifeWorks NW in 2023, with a vision of enhancing integrated and whole person care to address health disparities for clients with mental illness, and became board-certified in lifestyle medicine, which is the practice of evidence-based health behaviors.