about Courtney

Courtney Stratton, PhD, MEd, LMT, RYT-500, SEP, is a Transpersonal Psychologist. Using her wide range of training in various modalities, she helps co-create with her clients, circlers, and students a plan that works to meet their therapeutic and educational needs and goals. Through Somatic Experiencing, circles, bodywork, movement, meditation, energy work, and group process, she offers a comprehensive set of modalities artfully interwoven to provide a unique experience for every individual.

Her compassionate and sensitive presence creates a safe space for learning and growth to occur. Those who have worked with her have described her as light-hearted, tender, soulful, and empathetic. She approaches healing with awe, humor, curiosity, and reverence. She feels great honor and respect for all those with whom she is blessed with the opportunity to work. Her work is largely relational and dedicated to helping her clients and students to feel safer and freer in the world in which they live. 

As a Doctor of Philosophy of Transpersonal Psychology, Courtney has dedicated her energy and passions to embodiment. She believes we all have a right to feel at home in our bodies and to learn to listen to the deep wisdom and intuition that reside within each of us. She believes that many of us have forgotten how to attune to our bodily knowing and have lost awareness of this innate sense of connection to our deepest selves. Her work aims to assist and support those in returning to their empowered state of  bodyfulness, a term coined by Jorge Ferrer, in which one powerfully inhabits the wholeness of their Being, including their bodies. 

The study of Transpersonal Psychology, stemming from the prefix trans-, connotes two meanings: “beyond” and “through”. With this understanding, Courtney’s work invites the opportunity for those who seek her services to work with their connection, or lack thereof, to that which is beyond the individual (i.e. God, the Universe, the Great Mystery, etc…), and also to work with the connection among all the parts of the individual (mind, body, spirit, emotions), as well as the interconnectedness with one another and Nature. 

As a graduate of the Wild Woman Project Circle Leaders program, Courtney embodies the essence of the Wild Woman archetype, seeking to help awaken this energy into the collective. Her circles are inspired by the invitation for all of us to become more deeply attuned to our inner guidance and a passion for bringing women together in a deep and soulful way. Her studies with Devaa Haley Mitchell in embodying the 13 different goddess archetypes equally informs her approach, offering creative and expansive circle experiences.

Courtney achieved her Masters of Education from Colorado State University, which helps to support the organization and framework for all her learning events, including workshops, classes, and retreats. She incorporates the fundamental aspects and building blocks of education with the transformational and alchemical processes of group interaction in a well-rounded and comprehensive way. Her hope is to create a sound container, in which individuals feel the safety and freedom to explore themselves and one another.