Maiya Robbie
Registered Therapeutic Counsellor
Expressive Arts Therapist
Hi, I'm Maiya.
I was brought to this field of work with a combination of my deep care and curiosity about our experiences as human beings, and a life-long impulse to create, to reflect, to make, and to shape.
To be human is to create. The body (soma) and spirit (psyche) are resources capable of leading us through times of stress, trauma, and challenge and into transformation and growth. The expressive arts, creative impulse, metaphor, embodiment, mindfulness... all are bridges that serve to familiarize us ever more deeply with our inner and outer resources for growth and development, individually and collectively.
I am a certified Expressive Arts Therapist and a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor (RTC via ACCT) and I continue to study within my field of practice.
My additional fields of practice,
curiosity and study include:
*Hakomi -Mindfulness-Centered Somatic Therapy - ongoing course work, in person group study and in person group supervision.
*Ancestral healing work, namely through the work of Daniel Foor, PhD (https://ancestralmedicine.org/)
Completion of courses 'Animist Psychology' and 'Rituals for Healing Trauma'
*Jungian Somatics through study with Jane Clapp. "Jungian Somatics™ honours the intelligence of the body and the symbolic language of the psyche. It’s a way of working with movement, sensation, dreams, image, and the unconscious to cultivate mystical aliveness, a state in which we reconnect with our deepest vitality, meaning, and soul."
Beannacht/Blessing by John O'Donohue
On the day when
the weight deadens
on your shoulders
and you stumble,
may the clay dance
to balance you.
And when your eyes
freeze behind
the grey window
and the ghost of loss
gets into you,
may a flock of colours,
indigo, red, green
and azure blue,
come to awaken in you
a meadow of delight.
When the canvas frays
in the currach of thought
and a stain of ocean
blackens beneath you,
may there come across the waters
a path of yellow moonlight
to bring you safely home.
May the nourishment of the earth be yours,
may the clarity of light be yours,
may the fluency of the ocean be yours,
may the protection of the ancestors be yours.
And so may a slow
wind work these words
of love around you,
an invisible cloak
to mind your life.