Michelle Seely is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a private practice in Los Angeles. She is an experienced teacher of Ggestalt and meditation and has trained and supervised licensed therapists and associates in the US and internationally. She has served on the core faculty at the Pacific Gestalt Institute for over a decade. She is a contributing author to the academic anthology, The Relational Heart of Gestalt Therapy (Routledge 2022). She was trained to teach Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) by the program’s developers, Kristin Neff, and Chris Germer, and has taught privately and with InsightLA Meditation. She is a past president of the Gestalt Therapy Institute of Los Angeles (GTILA), where she also served on the executive board for eight years.