Pronouns: She/Her

Courtney Watson is a queer Black Mother, lover, and community member in Ohlone Lisjan territory (Oakland, California). She is descended from enslaved Africans stolen from West and Central Africa, Louisiana Chahtah, their white European oppressors and their disappointed Gallic Old Ones. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Certified Sex therapist, and medicine woman studying African and American Indigenous Knowledge Systems. She owns Doorway Therapeutic Services, a group therapy practice focused on the mental health needs of Black Indigenous People of Color, Queer folks, Trans, Gender Non-conforming, Non-binary and Two-Spirit individuals and offering individual, couples, sex and ketamine assisted therapy by predominantly QT/BIPOC providers. She founded a non-profit, Access to Doorways, helps subsidize the cost of psychedelic treatment, training programs and sponsors Queer- and BIPOC-led psychedelic projects.