Ariel Giarretto, LMFT, SEP, CMT, CSB is an internationally known body-oriented psychotherapist, trauma specialist, and Somatic Sex Educator. Her passion is to support people of all cultures and ages in how to find ease and pleasure in their bodies, increase intimacy, and find freedom from the grip of trauma. She is the co-developer of “The Full Embodiment Model” which offers gentle, transformative workshops for people wanting to heal from the effects of sexuality/gender trauma, sexual abuse and disembodiment. Trained in a wide variety of somatic therapies, she is primarily informed by Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing (SE). For 17 years she has been full-time SE teaching faculty, training and mentoring practitioners all over the globe. Throughout the 90’s she was on staff at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, as a workshop and group leader, a private therapist and part of the bodywork and massage crew. She has extensive training in treating sexual trauma, prenatal and birth therapy with Ray Castellino, as well as attachment and early developmental trauma. Since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, she has been training practitioners in addressing the effects of war and rape trauma. Ariel is particularly fond of her doodle Freya, her Green Cheek Conures, Tulip and Oscar, and of course her partner Jeffrey. Originally from the US, she is currently based in Denmark.