Brigitta Karelis, M.A., LPC, was born in Germany where she earned a Diplom (equivalent to an M.A.) in Paedagogik - a field integrating social work and psychology - in 1991. Early in her career, she worked with adolescents from marginalized backgrounds as well as with political refugees.

In 1994, she moved to Boulder, Colorado, to study Somatic Psychology at Naropa University, earning her M.A. in 1997. Alongside her graduate studies, she trained in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP). Following her graduation, she taught SP at Naropa University while serving as adjunct faculty for 12 years.

She has maintained a private psychotherapy practice since 1997 and began teaching internationally for the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute in 1999. She works with many kinds of trauma, including the profound pain that can come from misrecognition - helping clients to stand strong in their goodness, truth, and dignity in the face of bias and negative projections.

Her work is informed and enriched by more than 30 years of practicing and teaching meditation, by Aikido and other movement disciplines, as well as her deep appreciation and respect for the power of the body-mind connection. She has seen that by fully engaging with our experiences - with presence, heart, and skill - transformation naturally unfolds. Challenges can thus be fuel for depth and growth, and life becomes a journey full of meaning.

Darlene Cohn, PhD, is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in private practice with over 30 years of clinical experience. Her practice focuses on adolescence, adults, and couples who have experienced physical and developmental traumas. She includes psychodynamic and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy approaches when working with her clients. She was a past supervisor at The California Graduate Institute running individual and group supervisions and had run a first-year training group for interns.