Integrative Psychotherapy
Toward a more Soulful life
For those drawn to deeper terrains of psyche and the many worlds we inhabit.
Depth + integrative psychotherapy
My approach tends to the whole person—psyche, body, spirit—while attending to the relationships, histories, cultures, and social realities that shape our lives.
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Depth Psychotherapy
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Somatic Experiencing®
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EMDR Therapy
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Ecotherapy
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Equine Psychotherapy
A Holistic Approach to Overcoming Challenges
People come to this work at many different thresholds—sometimes in the midst of change or loss, and sometimes with a quieter sense that the life they are living no longer feels fully aligned with who they are becoming.
A desire for greater alignment between inner and outer life
Feeling disconnected from body, relationship, community, or the living world
Living between cultures and worlds
Questions of belonging, identity, and place
Creative blocks or a longing for deeper expression and imagination
Navigating thresholds and significant life transitions
Thresholds, transitions, grief and loss
The complexities of living with heightened sensitivity
Spiritual, existential, and transpersonal exploration
A desire for deeper inquiry into the patterns and inner landscapes shaping one’s life
There are many ways we find ourselves at a threshold…
You may be asking yourself questions like:
What is this threshold asking of me?
What parts of myself are asking to be known or reclaimed?
What is asking to be lived differently?
What am I being asked to leave behind?
What do I carry forward?
How do I find my way when the path forward has not yet revealed itself?
What is emerging?
These inquiries can open a passage into the deeper life of the psyche.
Moments of uncertainty—when the life we are living no longer feels in alignment with our inner experience—can ask something of us. In therapy, we stay close to what is emerging—attending to the body, imagination, dreams, and the more-than-human.
Past Experiences with Therapy
Perhaps you’ve been in therapy before and have already gained meaningful insight into yourself, your relationships, and the experiences that have shaped you. And still, you may sense there is more asking to be explored—something beneath the surface that has not yet found language, expression, or a way to be fully integrated.
Therapy can become a vessel—a relationship spacious enough to slow down, listen, and attend to what may not yet have words. Through reverie, embodied awareness, dreams, images, and the patterns that emerge between us, we begin to listen for the deeper movements of the psyche and the archetypal Self.
Rather than needing to know the way forward, we make space for what is seeking to emerge.
The Need for an Integrative Approach
The human experience is layered, complex, and multi-dimensional. We are shaped by what we know consciously, but also by what is unknown, just underneath the surface in the body, dreams, imagination, relationships, ancestral and cultural histories, and the natural world.
An integrative approach allows us to meet these different dimensions of experience. Rooted in depth psychology, my work attends to the unconscious and archetypal patterns that move through our lives.
What is an integrative approach to therapy?
Somatic, energetic/spiritual, and traditional healing arts practices deepen this inquiry by honoring different ways of listening and knowing when words and logic alone may not hold the fullness of an experience.
Within the holding space of therapy, these practices are woven together in response to what is emerging. The intention is to create the conditions for deeper listening—to psyche, body, spirit, and the deeper Self—and to allow a more embodied and meaningful way of being to unfold.
entering into relationship with psyche
Integration is not the erasure of difference, but the ongoing practice of holding the many parts of ourselves in relationship.
Our histories, dreams, symptoms, relationships, ancestral inheritances, and imaginal lives all carry something of who we are and who we are becoming.
In attending to these different voices, we make room for complexity, contradiction, and mystery. Rather than seeking a single or fixed understanding of who we are, depth work invites an ongoing relationship with psyche—and with what continues to emerge beyond the edges of conscious knowing.
Hi, I’m Maryem Irias
Depth Psychotherapist and Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner.
My work is rooted in depth and post-Jungian psychology and informed by somatic and trauma-responsive approaches. I practice through an intersectional, decolonial lens that is anti-racist, anti-ableist, and LGBTQ+ affirming. This orientation recognizes that psyche does not exist in isolation, but is shaped by the intersections of our identities, bodies, relationships, ancestral and cultural histories, social locations, and the larger systems and worlds we inhabit.
Depth work asks us to attend not only to the personal unconscious, but also to the cultural, ancestral, and collective forces moving through our lives. Together, we can become curious about inherited ideas of what it means to be normal, healthy, or whole, while making room for multiple ways of being, knowing, sensing, loving, and belonging.
an invitation into reverie
Where what has been waiting at the edges of awareness may begin to be received and witnessed.
“When the body is finally listened to…it becomes eloquent”
~Marion Woodman