By going tenderly into our suffering we can cultivate strength and emerge anew. We all have the innate wisdom to grow and heal our own wounds.
- Maisa Thayer
As a Holistic Therapist I pay careful attention to who you are within your environment. I have extensive experience with Trauma and Women’s cycles. I am also an Eating Disorder Therapist at Aipono Hawaii. I offer a lens of many modalities including: Jungian archetypes, shadow work, inner child, women’s cycles, daily lifestyle, somatic therapy, embodiment, body work/massage, nourishment, expanded states, and more to empower you to be your fullest, most authentic version of yourself:
Create joyful & fulfilling relationships
Find self-acceptance & self-confidence
Know that you are worthy of love & success
Feel more grounded & courageous
Together we will bring compassionate healing to all parts of you:
mind, body and spirit.
In my work as a therapist I have noticed our culture now lacks Rituals to mark the ending and beginning of chapters. Rituals bring the body and the senses into our awareness and help to ease and honor transitions. In our sessions I may work with clients to personalize customs and create rituals to honor life changing events such as :
Grieving a loved one
Transitioning relationships (divorce, separation, breakup)
Transitioning Self-Death of self (changing careers, lifestyle change etc)
First Menstruation/Miscarriage/Abortion
Sexual Trauma and Abuse
As a Therapist in alternative methodology and holistic practice I am experienced in talk therapy and rituals surrounding natural cycles in life. I have published research on the effectiveness of rituals and rites of passage in client’s personal growth and healing. My research includes a recent study entitled “Expression Circle Group:Incorporating Psychodrama Towards Empowering Sexual Assault Survivors” which will be published in the 2023 in The Journal of Psychodrama, Sociometry, and Group Psychotherapy.
The study revealed significant results: Survivors of PTSD before the group ritual reported 100% guilt and after ritual 44% guilt. The data found that rituals were effective and also timely in helping survivors to create meaning and transformation out of their pain and make it into their new found purpose.
Additionally, the feedback from the ritual found that survivors were able to honor and remove heaviness and blocks that were keeping them from healing. They were able to move forward towards empowerment through the ceremony.