Ariel Giarretto, MS, LMFT, SEP, CMT, CSB is a body-oriented therapist, international Somatic Experiencing trainer, and Somatic Sex Educator(since 2015). After completing her post-graduate education in psychology, and licensed as a marriage and family therapist, she studied a wide variety of somatic therapies, and is primarily informed by Somatic Experiencing (SE), She was introduced to SE in 1999 full-time teaching faculty in 2005. On staff at the Esalen Institute throughout the 90's, she studied with some of the finest somatic teachers and sexuality experts. 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 trauma, sexual abuse and disembodiment. She has extensive training in pre and perinatal, birth therapy with Ray Castellino, as well as attachment and early developmental trauma. She works with both couples and individuals who have been victims of sexual abuse, infertility, traumatic births, and aggressive medical procedures. She conducts trainings worldwide on almost all five continents.