KARLA HELBERT
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  • 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
  • Intensives
  • 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
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  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Press and News
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  • Free Downloads for Finding Your Own Way to Grieve
    • How can seeing a therapist help with autism?

“And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”
​~Rumi

Intensive Sessions and Personalized Retreats 


Some experiences cannot be rushed. Grief, trauma, and profound loss invite us to slow down, breathe, enter and be with, the deeper layers of our being.

Healing Intensives and 2–4 day private retreats offer expanded, immersive spaces to move beyond the limits of a traditional therapy hour and into a rhythm of healing that allows for meaningful release, integration, and renewal. 
These experiences are for those who sense that one hour isn’t enough—or who wish to reconnect deeply with themselves and, often, with loved ones who have died—in a sacred, intentional way, held with compassion and skilled support.

Each intensive or retreat is personalized around your needs and intentions. Together, we co-create a gentle space of safety and presence. Within this extended container, you’ll have time to explore, feel, rest, and integrate—without pressure or rush.

Your experience may include:
  • Induced After-Death Communication (IADC): A gentle, evidence-based process to support connection after loss.
  • Yoga Therapy & Somatic Work: Movement, breath, and awareness practices to engage the body’s innate wisdom and support nervous system regulation.
  • Journaling & Expressive Writing: Reflection and creative expression to give voice to grief, insight, and meaning that you create.
  • Internal Family Systems (IFS) / Parts Work: Meeting and integrating inner parts with compassion and curiosity.
  • Trauma Re-processing: using guided visualizations, inner resourcing, you are completely at the helm of the experience.
  • Yoga Nidra: Deep guided relaxation to access a place where body/mind/spirit can feel more integrated supporting better sleep, rest, relaxation, overall functioning and healing where healing is needed.
  • Arts and Expressive work: This may include journaling, painting, mandala creation, other forms of creation and expression.
  • Tarot & Archetypal Symbology: Accessing the language of the soul through imagery, metaphor, and symbolic guidance.
  • Reiki:  Gentle yet powerful energy work for stress relief and integration. 

Whether in a single-day intensive, or multi-day retreat, these modalities weave together to honor your whole being--mind, body, and spirit.

Retreat options
For those seeking even deeper immersion, I offer private 2–4 day individualized retreats.
These experiences allow for extended time in sacred space—often combining multiple therapeutic sessions with yoga, meditation, nature connection, rest, and reflection. Each retreat is custom-crafted to your goals and needs and can include both structured and unstructured time for integration.

Retreats may take place in-person in a calming, natural setting or virtually with intentional design for your home environment.

Intensives and Retreats are ideal if you:
  • Are navigating deep grief or trauma and need more time and space to process, explore, connect and find meaning.
  • Feel ready to take the space and time to help your energy and emotions move with mindful compassion and creative exploration.
  • Wish to connect more fully with your inner self or a loved one who has died.
  • Seek a sacred, integrative approach blending therapeutic depth with spiritual connection wisdom

Session & retreat details:
  • Individual Intensives: 2–6 hours
  • Private Retreats: 2–4 days (with a custom schedule)
  • Format: In-person and online options available
  • Flow: Opening & nervous system settling → focused therapeutic work → integration & closing practices
  • Aftercare: Personalized integration plan with grounding, reflection, and self-care practices​​

Each intensive or retreat is uniquely created, curated, and tailored to you—honoring your timing, needs, and personal path. We can blend together any of the modalities and techniques I am trained in and use in my practice including: 
  • Compassion Focused Therapy,
  • Mindfulness and Meditation,
  • Yoga and Yoga Philosophy,
  • Somatic work
  • EMI and core focused EMDR
  • IADC
  • Yoga Nidra, guided visualization, guided relaxation, 
  • Hypnotherapy,
  • Expressive modalities including journaling and artmaking,
  • IADC 
  • Reiki
  • Tarot Symbology 

    Contact me here about planning your intensive session or personal retrat experience and I will get back to you to begin your personal journey. 

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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
  • Intensives
  • 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
  • Karla's Books
    • Book Recommendations
  • Free Downloads for Finding Your Own Way to Grieve
    • How can seeing a therapist help with autism?