Maryem Irias
Pronouns: She / Her / Ella
I was born on the ancestral, and unceded territory of the Kizh nation, “Tovaangar” presently known as Los Angeles. Grateful to the Tongva/Kizh ancestors, elders, relatives, past, present, and emerging who continue to steward this beautiful land.
I have spent most of my life here learning, living, creating, being in community, being of service as a public school secondary English teacher, a yoga/meditation teacher, and the past decade serving as a healing practitioner and integrative psychotherapist. One of my greatest joys and honor is to mother three humans, three dogs, a cat, and mare alongside my partner. I am humbled everyday by the complexity and beauty of these relationships.
My mountain is the beautiful San Gabriel range which creates a formidable backdrop to the San Gabriel Valley. My water place is the Arroyo Seco, literally a dry rivulet and the magnificent Pacific Ocean. My parents immigrated to the US from Nicaragua and Ecuador—I carry within my bones the lands they left behind, dreams deferred, illumined hope, their awe inspiring resiliency, their devotion, service, and above all, their love. My ancestors are Indigenous Meso-American, Iberian, Mediterranean, North and West African, as well as West Asian.
I am called to serve Latinx, Black, Indigenous, Bodies of Culture, LGBTQIA+ communities and any group living on the margins. I honor the relationship between issues of injustice, systemic oppression, intergenerational trauma, personal/collective mythology, psyche, soma, spirituality, and ecology.
Providing Treatment for those wanting support with:
🜄 Trauma
🜃 Anxiety
🜂 Depression
𓂀 Spirituality
𓄌 Ancestral
𓁿 Creative Blocks
🝰 Life Transitions
𓇚 Motherhood
𓆃 Grief
𓅯 Bereavement
Serving:
𓁿 All bodies
*Somatic Experiencing and Integrative Healing sessions are offered in person and virtually. Sessions are offered in both English and Spanish.
Approaches / Ways to Integration:
ecosomatic therapy
𓊓 Depth /Jungian
𓁿 Imaginal/Archetypal
𓇙 Dreamwork
𓆃 Transpersonal
𓇼 Somatic Experiencing
🜁 Somatic Touch Work
𓇚 Equine-Assisted Learning
𓇣 Ecotherapy
Integrative Healing
𓊗 Earth Based /Animistic Practices
𓁿 Ceremony/Ritual
𓆃 Shamanic / Expressive Arts
𓇚 Contemplative Practices
𓆹 Plant Spirit Medicine
𓆸 Flower Essences
🜄 Intuitive / Energetic
Education & Training
I am a lifelong devoted student of life and the Great Mystery. I am moved by human relationships, our relationship to ecology, the more than human, and committed to deepening all my relations.
Deeply grateful to the Divine, my ancestors, my family, friends, students, clients, community, my many teachers who have supported me on this beautiful path of remembrance. I honor you.
LICENSE
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist #126430 | California
degrees
B.A. in English and Comparative Literary Studies, Minor in Education | Occidental College
M.A.T. Literature | Occidental College
Single Subject Teaching Credential in English | Occidental College
M.A. in Counseling Psychology (emphasis in Depth Psychology) | Pacifica Graduate Institute
Ph.D. candidate in Depth Psychology & Integrative Healing Practices | Pacifica Graduate Institute
Certifications
Provisional Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner | Somatic Experiencing® International
Touch Skills for Trauma Therapists, Somatic Practice, Kathy L. Kain, Ph.D.
Jungian Sandplay Certificate | Jung Institute of Los Angeles
EMDR Trained | Institute for Creative Mindfulness
Communal Consultation for Bodies of Culture | Resmaa Menakem & Karine Bell, Education for Racial Equity
INDIGENOUS & WISDOM TRADITIONS
Plant Spirit Initiation Apprenticeship: Embracing the Medicine Path (in process) | Francisca Santibanez
Life as Medicine Way: Healing Lifestyle, Plant Teachings, & Ancestral Healing | Francisca Santibanez
Earth, Blood, and Soul: Advanced Plantcestral Medicine | Francisca Santibanez
Flower Essence Practitioner Training | Ruth Toledo Altschuler, Flower Essence Society
Cihuatl Cacao: A Study Immersion + Prayer Communion with Cacao | Mariana Mae
Inheritance: A Creative, Healing, Ancient Feminine Arts Mentorship | Mariana Mae
Ticiyotl Path| Veronica Iglesias, Mexico
Initiation into the Chalchiuhpapalocihuatl Path | Veronica Iglesias, Mexico
Ceremony & Rites of Passage | Somatic Wilderness Therapy Institute & Nature Knows
300 Hour Shamanic Yoga Teacher Training | Full Mesa Carrier | Shamanic Yoga Institute, Squamish BC
White Global Mesa Mastery Apprenticeship | Shamanic Yoga Institute, Squamish BC
Radiance Sutras Meditation Teacher Training | Dr. Lorin Roche & Camille Maurine
Indigenous Plant Medicine & Rituals from the Rainforest | Adriana Ayales
Astro-Herbalism: The Ancient Link Between Plants and Planets | School of Evolutionary Herbalism
Usui Reiki Level I, II, & Master Level | Basia Tacik, M.Ed, Sierra Madre, CA
Breathwork Facilitator & Shamanic Healer Training | Wahe Guru Kaur, The Awareness Center, Pasadena CA
200 Hour Hatha Yoga/Qi Gong Teacher Training | Sifu Matthew Cohen, Sacred Energy Arts
Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training | The Awareness Center, Pasadena CA
associations
Member of California Association of Marriage & Family Therapists (CAMFT)
Member of Somatic Experiencing® International (SEI)
“To be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others. To remember the other world in this world is to live in your true inheritance.”
~ David Whyte
