Elena Mansour, LCMHC-A, MPA works as a licensed therapist in private practice at Kinder to Yourself Counseling. She also volunteers her time at Helpmate, a domestic violence organization and sits on the grant committee of Women for Women, a women’s philanthropy group. Elena is a trained teacher through the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion and has been dedicated to Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) practice for numerous years, having taken her first workshop with Chris Germer in 2010 at Kripalu. Over the years, she has taken the Mindful Self-Compassion course three times starting with the live in-person intensive program with Kristin Neff and Chris Germer at the Esalen Institute more than six years ago. She recently completed her MSC Teacher Training and co-taught her first MSC course in 2024 and her second MSC course in 2025.