Who We Are
We specialize in facilitating processes whereby you can come to meaningfully direct your life. We intentionally invoke the principle that “you are who you are, and it’s what you do with it that matters.”
Ryan J. Holsapple, Ph.D.
Co-Director, Research Psychologist, Facilitator
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Holding a Ph.D. in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, Ryan Holsapple facilitates the Self Soul Spirit model with clients and groups and operates as the Co-Director of Center for Creative Choice. Dr. Strachan, met Dr. Holsapple in 2010 and worked with him as a client. Not too long after, they began a mentoring relationship that would last over a decade. Ryan's areas of expertise are Self Soul Spirit facilitation, transformation and personal development, genetic personality psychology, consciousness studies, and applied existential and phenomenological philosophy. Ryan is passionate about ensuring the Self Soul Spirit model’s continuation in facilitation with clients, educational training with groups, and publishing research.
Ryan's education at Pacifica has strongly emphasized the work of prominent psychologists such as Carl Jung and James Hillman. Before attaining his Ph.D., Ryan spent many years learning about human transformation with various powerful teachers and mentors which eventually led him to immerse himself in the Self Soul Spirit model. Ryan is passionate about supporting others to access and unlock their own innate wisdom and empowerment through mentoring, facilitating, and teaching.
Karen Johnson, M.A.
Co-Director, Facilitator
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Karen is a transformational facilitator devoted to guiding others home to their wholeness. She holds a master’s degree in Human Development and Education from the University of Colorado Denver, two years of graduate studies in Spiritual Formation and Soul Care, and a bachelor’s degree in Outdoor Education from Gordon College. She is certified in Self Soul Spirit facilitation through our founder, Dr. Roger Strachan, and has extensive wilderness training, including certification through the Wilderness Education Association.
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With a gift for weaving depth work with embodied experience, Karen helps women soften self-judgment and connect to inner truth through retreats, 1:1 sessions, group facilitation, and wilderness encounters. Her soulful presence and grounded insight create spaces where women feel seen, safe, and invited to reclaim their power.
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Karen’s journey is rooted in both rigorous study and lived spiritual inquiry. She believes that in the fertile ground of choice, creativity, and connection, something sacred emerges. Her co-leadership at the Center for Creative Choice reflects a deep commitment to transformation as both a mystery and a practice.
Roger T. Strachan, Ph.D.
Founder
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Earning a Ph.D. under the precepts of the scientist-practitioner model, Dr. Strachan was educated in scientific psychology and applied counseling skills. Neurophysiology, genetics, consciousness, and clinical psychology were and are his special interests. Throughout his career he has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in psychology, trained many therapists, and maintained a private counseling practice for over 60 years.
Many of Roger's clients have been professional healthcare providers, business professionals, couples seeking more intimacy and connection, and people experiencing major life transitions. This work inspired Roger to begin Center for Creative Choice in 1973. In the ensuing years, he has taken individuals, couples, and families into office and wilderness settings to work with their special issues.
His training and teaching in Gestalt Therapy provided a base for the creation and development of a theoretical model entitled Self Soul Spirit, which lies at the core of our work here at Center for Creative Choice.