KARLA HELBERT
  • Meet Karla
  • Free Guided Meditations
  • Events & Workshops
    • Yoga for Grief and Loss Series
    • Online Workshops
    • Compassionate Bereavement Care Yoga Provider
    • The Wisdom Course
  • Induced After Death Communication (IADC)
    • Schedule Your IADC Experience
  • Yoga with Karla
  • Work With Me
  • Get Your Free E-Book Breathing Lessons
  • Reiki
  • Tarot
  • Chakras
  • Yoga Nidra
  • Mudra Practices to Support the Heart
  • Grounding
  • Just Breathe
  • The Mind in Grief
  • Altars and Shrines
  • Tips & Articles
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Press and News
  • Gift Certificates
  • Book Recommendations
  • Free Downloads for Finding Your Own Way to Grieve
    • How can seeing a therapist help with autism?

We all need help sometimes.
You are not alone.

Trainings, Courses, Workshops, Happenings,
​plus Your Free E-Book

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Yoga Therapy for
​Grief & Loss
8-Week Series

​Yoga for Grief and Loss SeriesJoin Karla in Richmond VA Fridays from 5:30 to 7:30 May 14 to July 2. Learn how the different branches of yoga can support you in times of grief and loss. We will share sacred space, movement, time for journaling and artmaking, guided meditation, deep relaxation and more. 
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Click for Your Free Copy  Tips for Calming Body & Mind

My gift to you, this free e-book teaches simple ways to calm your mind and body through breath work, mindfulness and sensory awareness. 
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Compassionate Bereavement Yoga Provider + Grievers Yoga Retreat Oct. 15-19, 2025

Compassionate Bereavement Care Yoga Provider​Karla and Dr. Joanne Cacciatore are offering our popular certification this fall once more .These dates are for the combined Selah Yoga Retreat for Grievers and the CBC-Y required immersive experience on the world renowned Selah Carefarm near beautiful Sedona AZ . Join us to learn how to support those in grief mindfully, gently, compassionately with the ancient and time-tested teachings of yoga with the most current research in traumatic grief. Learn more...
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Bearing the Unbearable The Wisdom Course Online

When we love deeply, we mourn deeply.
Over ten lessons, grief expert and Zen priest Dr. Joanne Cacciatore and yoga therapist Karla Helbert help us navigate our path through grief, showing us a model that allows us to be with our grief and, over time, transform it into compassionate action in the world.  We need it now more than ever.
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Welcome. Meet Karla...

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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. 

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...

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. 

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...

If you'd like to receive periodic information about mindfulness, meditation, yoga, grief and bereavement, workshops, online courses, retreats, groups and new projects, you are invited to subscribe to Karla's newsletter. Click here to sign up and  receive a copy of her free E-Book, Tips for Calming Body and Mind: Breathing Lessons, as a thank you gift. 

Karla's therapy office and yoga space, Mandala Yoga Therapeutics, LLC, is located at 3111 Northside Ave. Suite 375 Henrico VA, 23228. 
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Currently, Karla sees clients via telehealth appointments and in person. 

Karla can be reached through the contact form below or call 804-892-2782. 

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  • Meet Karla
  • Free Guided Meditations
  • Events & Workshops
    • Yoga for Grief and Loss Series
    • Online Workshops
    • Compassionate Bereavement Care Yoga Provider
    • The Wisdom Course
  • Induced After Death Communication (IADC)
    • Schedule Your IADC Experience
  • Yoga with Karla
  • Work With Me
  • Get Your Free E-Book Breathing Lessons
  • Reiki
  • Tarot
  • Chakras
  • Yoga Nidra
  • Mudra Practices to Support the Heart
  • Grounding
  • Just Breathe
  • The Mind in Grief
  • Altars and Shrines
  • Tips & Articles
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Press and News
  • Gift Certificates
  • Book Recommendations
  • Free Downloads for Finding Your Own Way to Grieve
    • How can seeing a therapist help with autism?