Integrative Psychotherapy
Toward a more embodied life
For those ready to enter the deeper terrain of psyche.
Personalized Treatment Experience
My approach tends to the whole person—psyche, body, spirit—honoring the deeper currents that shape our lives and our relationship to ourselves and the living world.
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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
My clients come to me with a variety of concerns, like:
Feeling disconnected from their bodies, relationships, and communities
Living between cultures and worlds
Identity, belonging, and experiences of marginalization
Creative blocks and self-expression
Navigating thresholds and significant life transitions
Grief and loss
Navigating life as a highly sensitive individual
Spiritual and existential exploration
Perhaps something here speaks to where you find yourself now.
You may be asking yourself questions like:
What parts of myself are asking to be known or reclaimed?
What is this threshold in my life asking of me?
How do I find my way when the path forward has not yet revealed itself?
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 unconsciou, 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.
If you’re here, you’re seeking solutions.
If you are here, something may be asking for your attention.
What troubles us can also become an opening—a place where something deeper within the psyche is asking to be witnessed.