Erin Sibley Doerwald, LCSW, CMT-P, RYT-200 is a psychotherapist, mindfulness teacher, and yoga instructor with over two decades of experience supporting holistic health and wellbeing. She has been a clinical social worker since 2012, helping individuals and organizations find their way to wellness in the behavioral health world. After spending a decade on the front lines of mental health crisis work, Erin is well versed in the art of cultivating joy, resilience and wellbeing in the face of human suffering. She leads national and international classes, workshops, presentations, and retreats that cultivate wellbeing and resilience in support of individual and collective healing. During the height of the pandemic alone, she offered mindfulness and trauma-sensitive resiliency workshops to hundreds of educators, healthcare, and non-profit staff to embody a personal mission to be of compassionate service in the face of human hardship.

Erin is a certified mindfulness teacher with the International Mindfulness Teachers Association. She received her training in mindfulness facilitation from Diana Winston and Marvin Belzer in 2017 at UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC) Semel Institute for Neuroscience andHuman Behavior. She served as a mentor for students receiving training in the Long Distance Intensive Practice Program at UCLA MARC from 2018 – 2023 and as an affiliated UCLA Mindful Awareness Practices Class teacher from 2018 to the present. She teaches weekly yoga classes and offers holistic wellness workshops at YogaSource Santa Fe. She also oversees a small group practice of clinicians and a variety of services through her business, Hello Wellness.

Erin’s offerings cultivate the tools and insights gleaned from her years of bearing witness and facilitating change in the face of extreme adversity. She believes there is always light beyond the depths. She tends to the lanterns and lighthouses that cultivate active hope in the darkness.