Dr. Ariel Allena Botta is a practitioner and teacher of mindfulness, psychotherapist, researcher, Teaching Associate at Harvard Medical School, certified yoga instructor, and reiki master. She began her career 27 years ago at Boston Children’s Hospital in the United States where she continues to support children, adolescents and families. She has taught evidence-based mindfulness to youth and families in a clinical capacity for over 20 years. She also teaches mindfulness to the public, elite youth soccer players in her role as the Director of The Edge through the Valeo Futbol Club, and to healthcare workers. Her research is on decreasing stress and burnout in hospital-based healthcare workers using a single-day mindfulness training she developed. The results indicated a significant decrease in stress and symptoms of burnout after only 6 hours of mindfulness practice. She is a published author on mindfulness and group work and is a lecturer at many graduate schools in the Boston area.
As a career group worker, Dr. Botta has built and run robust group therapy programs in the Department of Psychiatry, the Gender Multispeciality Service, and the Division of Addiction Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital. Additionally, she is called upon regularly to consult to many organizations and agencies on how to build and run group programs.
In her life and work, Dr. Botta is guided by her core belief that we are stronger together than alone. It was from her passion for both mindfulness and group work that her company We Be, LLC was born.
The We represents the unified strength that can only be achieved in a cohesive group when individuals move from using the language of “I” to the language of “We.” It is in this pivotal moment that human beings stop thinking of themselves first and begin thinking collaboratively. There is nothing more powerful than the collective wisdom that exists in a group. The Be is about the art and science of mindfulness – the being with whatever shows up. Together, We Be has another important meaning. There is a saying that who “we be” is far greater than the sum of our actions and/or life experiences. Who “we be” is who we are at our core, our truest self. It is what defines us beyond anything else. Much of the journey in mindfulness and in life is letting go of the past and the future and returning home to who “we be” in this moment.
Please call or text Dr. Botta at 617-460-6656 with any questions about services she offers.