Karen Fisher Kelly Christiansen Double The Pleasur Exclusive Page

Kelly Christiansen, 38, comes from a different world: performance psychology and dance therapy. A former competitive ballroom dancer, Kelly holds a master’s degree in somatic psychology. She has spent the last eight years helping individuals and couples reconnect with their bodies through movement, touch, and play.

Fisher and Christiansen argue the opposite. Double the pleasure doesn’t mean excess or hedonism. It means intentionally layering joy so that it reinforces rather than depletes.

They are also launching a certification program for “Pleasure Coaches”—therapists, yoga teachers, and life coaches who want to integrate the framework into their existing practices.

Karen acknowledges this directly: “ Double the Pleasure is not for crisis moments. It’s for the long middle—the space where many people live but feel dead. We never claim that pleasure solves systemic injustice. But we do claim that deprived people rarely build better worlds. Pleasure is not the opposite of resistance. It’s fuel for it.”