About Courtney
Holistic Psychologist • Relationship Intelligence Specialist • Spiritual Counselor
Courtney’s first encounter with the divine was when she was six years old, sitting on a bench in Central Park Manhattan, when the thought arrived: what is death?
Intuitively closing her eyelids, she was inwardly launched into an ineffable experience of expansive awareness, enlargement, and knowing. The experience can only be described as pure unconditional love.
Returning from that blink of an eye she was no longer concerned with death. She had a new fear: living forever. What takes forever to get done?
Courtney’s family moved several times during childhood. Given the opportunity to live in both rural and suburban neighborhoods she got a beautifully diverse taste of a myriad of life-styles and belief systems. Raised in a non-religious household, Courtney tagged along with anyone attending a Saturday or Sunday service. This is when she realized the great difference between religion and spirituality.
Spirit is the essence of our unlimited being, religion often springs from the essence of the limited mind. Religion can help us remember the divine essence of something greater than ourselves. Spirituality helps us come into conscious union with this inner Essential Being, that transcends limitation, separation, and lack.
By the time Courtney was 28 years old she’d graduated college, had a job, was married with friends, but was so depressed she couldn’t get out of bed. She lay in bed in her Los Angeles flat staring out the window at a literal red brick wall. Day after day light would leak through stone-cracks daring her to live. Finally, her eyes were changed. She noticed a book that she’d purchased years before, and by grace grabbed it. She completed it in three days.
It wasn’t a spiritual book, self-help book, tell you who to be or what to do book. It was the biography of a woman photographer and it saved her life. It was then that Courtney realized: human stories heal.
It’s through our shared humanity that we liberate our divine essence.
This had been her second big breakthrough in consciousness of which there’d be another. She would learn anything left lingering undone inside will corrupt our most natural state of Being, which is Love.
We must express.
Her private practice of Awakening Heart Awareness has helped clients around the world discover the Truth of the Heart and take up conscious union with the Love inside that expresses through us as presence and leads us from within, when we dare to listen. This Love is not for person, place, or thing in the world. It’s not to be used but to be followed into the ever-increasing substance of an extraordinary and fulfilling life.
She’s worked with people from all backgrounds and faiths including NY Times Best Selling authors, academics, scientists, creative artists, entrepreneurs, healers, empaths, mothers, fathers, students, and more—seeking the revelation of the authentic self.
Her work’s helped clients boost revenue, fulfill dreams, emotionally connect, make difficult choices, and experience healthier and more harmonious relationships and lives through the freedom of oneness within.
She lives in Florida with her husband, Dave, and dog, Bella. Together they have three daughters in college. Outside of Awakening Heart Awareness, she’s the partner in a restaurant and developing technology that restores our primary purpose: being together.
Below you’ll discover more about this work of Awakening Heart Awareness that springs from an ineffable place inside called Loving.
Welcome.
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Awakening Heart Awareness
A Context of Loving.
I recognize there’s no way to experience healing and transformation in this world without a context of unconditional Love that holds us through the process. This context is found within and pointed to through teaching and guidance. Without this context, we will never gain the security and courage it takes to be truly free. Security and courage are inherent to Loving.
For nearly two decades, I’ve guided people from all walks of life — from bestselling authors and scientists to artists, entrepreneurs, healers, empaths, parents, students, and more — from within this spiritual context of Loving that transcends anything the ego could believe or understand about Love. This Love becomes the substance through which all of our relationships, projects, creative talents, insights and life unfold.
This Love is at times counter-intuitive, and will often go against the grains of the world, ever leading you to Something beyond your wildest imagination. We listen deeply, and through this deeper connection, lasting resolution, greater universal understanding, healthier relationships, greater economic freedom, and a more authentic self are revealed to us. We discover we’re living in the world, but no longer of it.
The Approach.
This work pulls from a vast wealth of human experience, deep education, and a Love established within All That Is. It goes far beyond symptom relief. It’s an invitation to actualize the fullest expression of who you are.
At the core of this approach is the understanding that you are a spiritual being — and that spirituality is not a technique to master but a state of being. It’s not an idea or a belief system, it’s your direct experience of connection, love, and wholeness. I call this state of being, conscious union. In conscious union we become Living Love.
Unlike many approaches, Awakening Heart Awareness recognizes that spiritual growth and emotional growth are inseparable. Living an inspired, meaningful life requires the emotional maturity to navigate relationships, embrace vulnerability, and make difficult choices for an easier, happier life. Our work together weaves the science of emotional intelligence, the art of relationship awareness, more than seven therapeutic modalities, and a deep consciousness-based perspective into a practical and deeply human path forward.
My role is to guide you in releasing the misunderstandings and limitations of the mind that hold you back, while helping you awaken to the deeper purpose, presence, and possibility that have always been within you.
The Truth Will Set You Free.
No one can give away what they don’t have or haven’t experienced themselves. My work — and this practice — sprung from a profound shift in consciousness I experienced in 2008. That shift changed the way I saw myself, others, and life itself. A friend noticing this shift began sending people to see me with all their questions and concerns. I hadn’t planned to guide anyone, but those early conversations kept going, people began referring others, and Awakening Heart Awareness (A-HA!) was organically born.
That shift led me to become a devoted student of practical spirituality — an approach that blends Eastern and Western wisdom and mysticism to help us live from higher states of consciousness while living in the world effectively.
Over time, it became clear that Awakening Heart Awareness wasn’t simply counseling — it was an experience of my deepest awareness: that none of us walk this path alone, the student benefits from the consciousness of the teacher, and real transformation happens when we share ourselves openly with one another.
In short, meaningful conversation has been the path of enlightenment for thousands of years.
I’m grateful to the teachers who have come before who shared what they had. They continue helping and assisting me daily. Because if anything’s true about spiritual teaching, we will forget.
It’s in constant, persistent reminding that we increase our lives and our mastery. This world is not mere school, it’s a place through which we gain the invaluable opportunity to remember who we are, have always been, and will always be—the divine made manifest as and is.
It’s all coming together.
Through Awakening Heart Awareness you engage meaningful conversations that illuminate, enliven, heal, and transform. Cultivating strength of heart, self-trust, and authentic self-expression, you can live a life that feels solidly grounded and expansive, purposeful and free.
For nearly two decades, Awakening Heart Awareness has provided the missing key to opening the door to the fulfillment of the Soul, brining people more of what they want and less of what they don’t.
If you’re ready to gain the keys to your freedom, I invite you to take the next step. Whether you’re navigating a transition, healing from a relationship, trying to find your way, or simply sensing there’s more available to you, I’ll walk with you.
You don’t have to do this alone — and you were never meant to.
You can schedule a consultation here.
I welcome you.