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Welcome. Meet Karla...
Karla is a licensed professional counselor (LPC), internationally certified yoga therapist, (C-IAYT), registered yoga teacher (E-RYT), certified meditation instructor, award winning author, and a certified Compassionate Bereavement Care Provider.
Counseling and supporting those living with traumatic grief and bereavement is her main focus of work. She also works with those actively seeking to blend alternative, holistic, and the spiritual or mystical with the therapy journey. Karla works from a client-centered perspective based in the yogic teaching that we are already whole and perfect as we are. Even when we don't feel that way.
As a bereaved mother and a trained therapist, Karla has deep personal, as well as clinical, understanding of the difficult issues facing those grieving the deaths of loved ones. Finding your own path toward wholeness, integration, and growth on the dark, yet often stunningly beautiful, journey through grief and life is not easy. She knows how hard it is when someone you love deeply has died. Your journey is unique, but you are not alone.
Counseling and supporting those living with traumatic grief and bereavement is her main focus of work. She also works with those actively seeking to blend alternative, holistic, and the spiritual or mystical with the therapy journey. Karla works from a client-centered perspective based in the yogic teaching that we are already whole and perfect as we are. Even when we don't feel that way.
As a bereaved mother and a trained therapist, Karla has deep personal, as well as clinical, understanding of the difficult issues facing those grieving the deaths of loved ones. Finding your own path toward wholeness, integration, and growth on the dark, yet often stunningly beautiful, journey through grief and life is not easy. She knows how hard it is when someone you love deeply has died. Your journey is unique, but you are not alone.
Work with Karla can include mindfulness and meditation training, yoga-informed body and movement work, yoga-based philosophic and introspective work, hypnosis and trance work, as well as guided visualization, personalized yoga nidra, writing, journaling, mandala artwork, ritual creation and other forms of expressive modalities. Reiki, chakra work and use of tarot and the deep symbolism held there may also be part of your journey as you navigate your path toward remembering your wholeness.
Additionally, Karla is trained in Induced After Death Communication (IADC) therapy. IADC is a method that helps grieving people experience a reconnection with someone they love who has died, The result is often a lessening of the profound sadness, distress and pain connected to feeling separated from our beloved dead. IADC is a brief intervention that generally involves two treatment sessions, usually ninety minutes each, focused on helping a client process intense sadness and distress surrounding grief and traumatic loss with the goal of helping the emotions move in the session, resulting in a space of openness and receptivity where they can perceive connection with their loved ones. Learn more here...
Another aspect of Karla's career is her extensive experience with neurodiverse populations. She has the unique qualification of having worked over the past three decades with individuals diagnosed with various forms neurodivergence from ages 5 to 50, with abilities all over the spectrum including work with non-speakers, unreliably or minimally speaking individuals as well as those comfortable and fluent with spoken words to communicate effectively. Her award-winning book Finding Your Own Way to Grieve: A Creative Activity Workbook for Kids and Teens on the Autism Spectrum has helped thousands of families navigate grief. Learn more here...
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Karla's therapy office and yoga space, Mandala Yoga Therapeutics, LLC, is located at 3111 Northside Ave. Suite 375 Henrico VA, 23228.
Currently, Karla sees clients via telehealth appointments and in person.
Karla can be reached through the contact form below or call 804-892-2782.
