SAY HELLO TO ERIN
Erin Doerwald, LCSW, CMT-P, RYT-200 founded Hello Wellness in 2018 as a solo private psychotherapy practice. In the years since, her offerings have expanded to include mindfulness + yoga classes plus holistic wellness workshops, retreats, and events. She currently sees a select number of individual therapy and coaching clients while supervising a small team of clinical associates. The Hello Wellness team offers integrative psychotherapy sessions that include traditional evidence-based practices alongside modalities that utilize ancient wisdom.
Since 1999, Erin has been a student and committed practitioner of mind-body practices that fundamentally shifted her perspective on living a life in balance. Having experienced profound transformation through practices that held her through grief and loss, illness, and injury, a personal mission grew to share the benefits of these practices in service to others. Erin has been practicing Vipassana style meditation since 2009 and teaching mindful awareness practices in clinical and educational settings since 2012. A practicing clinician since 2012, her innovative psychotherapy style integrates narrative and family systems therapy, somatic strategies from interpersonal neurobiology and polyvagal theory, and yoga and mindfulness-based interventions. She is a dedicated, lifelong learner interested in the intersections of modern science and ancient traditions. Her teachers' diverse lineages are secular, clinical, yogic, and Buddhist in origin.
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Erin has been a clinical social worker since 2012, helping individuals and organizations find their way to wellness in the behavioral health world. Her background includes supporting youth in coping with substance abuse-related vulnerabilities and suicide prevention through family systems therapy and group counseling. For close to a decade she served in leadership at The Sky Center of the New Mexico Suicide Intervention Project and developed the core programming of Sky’s Toolkit for Wellbeing model. She is a proud alumni of the Facundo Valdez School of Social Work of New Mexico Highlands University and has served as an adjunct professor for the MSW program. She joined the Board of Directors of Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center in Fall 2019 and supports VMRC’s values of cultivating inclusivity, refuge, and peace.
She leads national and international classes, workshops, presentations and retreats that cultivate wellbeing and resiliency in support of individual and collective healing in the personal, corporate, non-profit, healthcare, and educational worlds. 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 and Human 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 completed her 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training with Wendelin Scott and Amy Spurlock in May 2023.
Erin offers groups, classes, and a select number of 1:1 sessions and supervises a small team of clinical psychotherapy associates who are available for weekly sessions through Hello Wellness. She teaches weekly classes for Working Wellness and YogaSource Santa Fe.
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 knows there is always light beyond the depths. She tends to the lanterns and lighthouses that cultivate active hope in the darkness.
VALUES
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Approachable, present, honest. What you see is what you get: offerings of expertise from academic, professional, and personal spheres that are deeply meaningful to us. We are willing to evolve and our work is to see the growth potential in everybody, including ourselves, and to be responsive and relatable. Integrity and accountability are essential.
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We believe awe and wonder are core components of a life well-lived. Hello Wellness invites the savoring of life’s enchantments. We accept the paradox of life; when challenges inevitably arise, it is the remembrance of joy that inspires us to keep going. People are more drawn to, and more willing to participate in something if they are able to enjoy it. Our work can be light, bright, and luxuriating. We honor the moments of life that are filled with sweetness, gratitude, and inspiration. We delight in being of service to others and in our self-care practices. When we prioritize love and kindness, we are tangibly changing ourselves, our community, and our world for good.
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Learning is an endless endeavor, a celebration of the unknown. It is the willingness to ask questions and share one's own ideas and beliefs while staying open to new concepts that inspire change. We integrate new insights from the field into our work by dedicating ourselves to lifelong learning, cultivating growth mindset and being open to receiving feedback. Our curiosity is continuous, creative, and compassionate. Our brand takes teaching outside of conventional classroom walls and moves it into the head, heart, and home (body) of the learner.
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Hello Wellness is attuned to the experiences of our collective and common humanity. We anticipate what our clients’ needs are because we too, are humans seeking connection, belonging, and ease from suffering. We offer practices for wellbeing for all because we believe this is an essential human right. Through empathic understanding, we are aware that holistic wellness does not come easily in a world full of adversity, both individual and collective. Our awareness of these truths has called us to compassionate service.
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Peaceful, thoughtful, centered, intentional. We are a brand that is focused on what feels good, not what looks good. We make space for the wisdom that acceptance brings, seeking joy while building the capacity to bear the difficult. We value the direct experience of life as we witness it, moment to moment. Mindfulness helps us be present for every precious moment, allowing for our human stories to unfold at a flowing pace. We foster wellbeing in the mind, body, and spirit through practices that enhance presence for witnessing the full spectrum and beauty of life.
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Mind
Hello Wellness offers highly skilled clinical & coaching services to individuals, groups, and communities looking to cultivate wellbeing. Our practices are infused with insights gleaned from the world of behavioral health. We offer Individual Psychotherapy, Clinical Supervision, and Coaching & Mentorship for Personal and Professional Development.
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Body
Hello Wellness believes that healing through cognitive practices alone is incomplete. Given the ever increasing field of knowledge supporting healing strategies that are body-based, Hello Wellness incorporates somatic modalities for wellness including yoga, breathwork, and embodied mindfulness. We invite you to come home to yourself.
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Spirit
Exploring the aspects of Self that transcend the cognitive and the physical, Hello Wellness touches the energetic and the numinous through practices that investigate the landscape of the heart. When we connect to mystery and magic, (aka non-ordinary states of consciousness), through meditation, compassion, and other emerging practices, a deeper wellspring of healing can be accessed.
The Hello Wellness Mantra is resounding:
To be of compassionate service
to individuals and communities
To hold space for grace,
transformation, and love,
and to foster holistic wellness for all
Through a variety of integrative practices
for healing and hope,
our mission is grounded
in joy and acceptance.
With confidence, care and compassion,
Hello Wellness helps people
transform their lives.
We welcome every person
in search of solace and healing
amongst the simultaneous beauty and messiness of life.
We’d love to help you find your new path. See how you can work with us to discover your light.