OUR COACHES
our team is built for futures — and lived experiences of progress
Cherie Dikelsky
Maia Bielak
Belle Paniagua-Novak
Cherie Dikelsky, ACC, ECPC, is a trusted seeing partner to change agents.
As founder and principal success coach at Hemispheres, her background includes two decades of expertise in futurism and embodied visioning. Born of her passion for human potential, Cherie's practice is grounded in applied neuroscience and shaped by transformational contexts, including her own growth through brain injury. Today, her integrative toolset empowers clients to transform uncertainties into lived experiences of curiosity, purpose, and meaningful progress.
Maia Bielak, LMT, RYT, SEP (cand) is a partner coach who provides trauma-informed support to individual and group clients in our coaching program. Her compassionate approach to healing inquiry helps our clients discover and expand their lived experiences of vitality and calm to promote repair and resilience.
Maia's background includes more than 20 years in interdisciplinary wellness, including trauma-informed somatic inquiry, polyvagal theory, and master-level practice in therapeutic arts. She has served as a practice leader for world-renowned mind-body programs—including training and leadership for ~100 practitioners at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health—and continues to serve as a trusted advisor to community organizations on the subject of wellness integrations.
Maia holds numerous certifications in mindbody integration, somatics, narrative medicine, meditation, and yoga. She holds certificates of advanced learning from Somatic Experiencing International and the Mindsight Institute, where she is an ongoing student of interpersonal neurobiology. Maia earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Ohio University.
In addition to her work as a wellness practitioner, Maia's practice as a Medicine Artist includes numerous privately sponsored and community-based projects, from large-scale art installations to children’s art and wellness education programs.