Karla Helbert

Karla Helbert, LPC, C-IAYT, E-RYT, YACEP is a licensed professional counselor, yoga therapist, meditation teacher, reiki master level reiki practitioner and teacher, and an award-winning author.Her life changed after the death of her firstborn child. Karla’s private therapy practice has a focus on loss, grief, and bereavement, working in particular with those affected by trauma and traumatic death.She leads classes, workshops, and retreats for the traumatically bereaved as well as trainings for professionals on how to work compassionately and effectively with those impacted by traumatic grief.Her award-winning books Yoga for Grief and Loss and The Chakras in Grief and Trauma: A Tantric Guide to Energetic Wholeness are endorsed and used as a teaching tool by leaders, teachers, and experts in the fields of yoga as well as grief and loss.She is also the author of Finding Your Own Way to Grieve: A Creative Activity Workbook for Kids and Teens on the Autism Spectrum, which received the Gold Medal in the Grief/Death & Dying category from Independent Publishers.Retreat experiences with Karla can include mindfulness and meditation training, yoga-informed movement and bodywork, yoga-based philosophical and introspective practices, hypnosis and trance work, and guided visualization, yoga nidra, and sound baths.The programme may also incorporate group energy healing, creative expression such as writing, journaling, mandala-making and other visual arts, ritual creation, dance, and a range of other expressive modalities.