“Everything can be taken from a person but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
~ Victor Frankl
Welcome!
Whoever you are, and wherever you come from, my deepest heart’s desire is to support and serve your healing, transformation, and thriving. Here you will find a variety of resources including Psychotherapy, Consulting & Spiritual Counseling, and a Multimedia Library of books, free articles, and practices.
Welcome!
Whoever you are, and wherever you come from, my deepest heart’s desire is to support and serve your healing, transformation, and thriving. Here you will find a variety of resources including Psychotherapy, Consulting & Spiritual Counseling, and a Multimedia Library of books, free articles, and practices.
Psychotherapy and Consultation
Welcome to my psychotherapy, consultation, and spiritual guidance practices. I am a licensed psychotherapist in California (lic.#50312) and Maine (lic.#MF6972) with over 25 years of experience helping individuals, couples, and families to heal and thrive. I work through telehealth as well as in-person sessions in Portland, Maine. Through my Spiritual Guidance practice, I offer support and “spiritual friendship” globally, as well as consult, mediate, and provide facilitation to spiritual and religious organizations, communities and teachers in crises, and to develop strategies to create and maintain organizational health. My training spans a variety of traditional and modern psychotherapeutic modalities including: Psychodynamic, Gestalt, Somatic Experiencing, and Transpersonal Psychotherapies, as well as over two decades of immersion in yogic practice and philosophy. I have extensive post-graduate training in trauma healing, and all of my work is trauma-informed. I am committed to a lifelong and ongoing study in my field.
I fully believe that psychotherapy is not only about overcoming wounds and working through problems and traumas, but about healing, thriving, becoming relationally healthy, vocationally empowered, and fulfilling our highest potential as human beings. No matter how wounded, traumatized, or unstable the individual, couple, family, or organization finds themselves when entering my practice, I am able to see, and help them to discover, their fundamental goodness and gifts, and provide a steady, safe, compassionate, and confidential space in which healing and thriving can and will emerge.
Learn more about my Psychotherapy and Consultation services here.
“Everything in life has two aspects: if you know how to use it, it becomes an advantage, and if you don’t know how to use it, it becomes a disadvantage. Every difficulty is to be converted into an opportunity. For every challenge I receive, I say, ‘This is a love letter from the Divine, and I must find an answer from within.’”
~ Vimala Thakar
Sign up to receive news
and updates of my offerings
Sign up to receive news
and updates of my offerings
FREE PRACTICES FOR PROCESSING TRAUMA AND REGULATING YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM
(Excerpted from Yoga & Psyche: Integrating the Paths of Yoga and Psychology for Healing, Transformation, and Joy,
by Sounds True. Book and Audiobook available through Amazon.)
Fellow Travelers on the Path,
In this time of collective, environmental, and global trauma, which inevitably also unearths our own individual traumas and wounds, I want to offer this Free audio and PDF download of The Yoga & Psyche Method Toolbox, which includes the very best practices I have found for processing trauma safely in the body, and regulating and and soothing our nervous systems. Drawing from depth psychology, Somatic Experiencing™, trauma healing methods, yoga and meditative practices, and neuroscience, these practices can be done solo, in pairs, or as a support to psychotherapy, yoga, and healing sessions. Read more about the practices in the PDF and/or explore them right here.
I am with you in Alliance, Fortitude, and Embodied Love,
Mariana Caplan
Practice 1_Learning to Feel Emotion in the Body
Practice 2_Tracking Sensation in the Body
Practice 3_Resourcing
Practice 4_Titration
Practice 5_Pendulation
Practice 6_Saying Yes to the No
Watch The Yoga & Psyche Book Trailer
“All of us should be most grateful for this book, which will certainly become a must-read in the field.”
~ Stephen Cope, Author of Yoga and the Quest for the True Self, and Founder and Former Director of the Kripalu Institute for Extraordinary Living
Mariana and her books are a wonderful life coach, guide, and resource for all those in search of peace, love, and healing… She can help us all to find the way to a quiet mind free of turbulence.
~ Bernie Siegel, MD, Author of The Art of Healing and Love, Medicine & Miracles
Seamlessly weaving yoga, neuroscience, somatics, and psychotherapy with the latest research, Mariana’s work is accessible, practical, and intelligent.
~ Elena Brower, Author of Art of Attention
Marian Caplan, whose work I have followed for many years, is a pioneer in articulating these deeper significances of yogic practice particularly in tandem with the important developments in psychology.
~ Don Hanlon Johnson, PhD, professor, founder of the CIIS Somatic Psychology Graduate Program and author