Ariel Giarretto

Ariel Giarretto

Ariel Giarretto, MS, LMFT, SEP, CMT, CSB is a body-oriented therapist, SE trainer and somatic sex educator. After completing her post-doctoral training in psychology and licensure as a marriage and family therapist, she has studied a wide range of somatic therapies and has been primarily informed by Somatic Experiencing (SE).

She was introduced to SE in 1999 and had been active in assisting Peter and other early teachers for many years. She became a full-time teacher in 2005 and trains and mentors practitioners around the world. Throughout the 1990s, she served at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA as an active community member, workshop and group leader, private therapist, and part of the bodywork and massage team.

To integrate sexuality and the pelvis into SE material, she certified as a Somatic Sex Educator in 2015 and now specializes in sexual and gender-based violence, as well as all sexual challenges. She is co-creator of The Full Embodiment Model, which offers gentle, transformative workshops for people seeking to heal from the effects of sexuality/gender trauma, sexual abuse and disembodiment.

She has extensive training in prenatal and birth therapy with Ray Castellino, as well as attachment and early developmental trauma, and has been a home birth “doula,” a dancer, a drummer, an athlete, a professional chef and baker, a world traveler. and adventurer, juggler and street artist, and is especially fond of her doodle Freya, her Green Cheek Conures, Tulip and Oscar, and of course her partner Jeffrey. They are originally from the US and are currently all based in Delft, Netherlands.

For more information: www.fullembodiment.org

Ariel Giarretto