Maria’s holistic approach, Sruti Path – The Path of Inner Listening, has developed through her studies and experience in Western psychology and Eastern contemplative traditions. The systemic family perspective forms the foundation of her therapeutic work and is enriched by practices that cultivate awareness of the body, emotions, and inner experience.
From this perspective, a symptom is understood within the broader context of a person’s life. Alongside addressing present difficulties, the therapeutic process explores the experiences, relationships, and patterns that may contribute to their emergence or persistence.
Our place within the family system, our personal history, the beliefs we carry, and the ways we experience emotions in the body all deserve attention. Exploring these interconnected aspects helps shape a therapeutic direction that responds to each person’s needs and life circumstances.
Self-awareness is central to this process. Therapy offers a supportive space in which individuals can recognise their recurring patterns, understand their needs, and explore new ways of responding to life’s challenges.
The aim is to strengthen autonomy, self-confidence, and the capacity to make conscious choices. This includes recognising both personal possibilities for change and the relationships and external circumstances that influence the individual’s life.
Alongside emotional support, therapy offers practical tools for self-observation, emotional regulation, communication, and setting boundaries. Where appropriate, meditation and body-awareness practices can complement this work, helping individuals strengthen their connection with their own experience and draw on their own strengths.
This approach encourages active participation and self-inquiry. The therapeutic relationship provides a foundation upon which individuals can gradually develop the understanding and skills that will support them in their daily lives, beyond their sessions.
Meaningful therapeutic work requires professional knowledge, experience, ethical responsibility, compassion, understanding, and empathy.
Intuition, when grounded in professional knowledge, experience, and attentive listening, can also enrich the therapeutic process. It can help the therapist recognise connections between the individual’s experiences and sensitively explore, together with that person, feelings or needs that have not yet been expressed in words. The therapist’s impressions are explored collaboratively with the individual, without being treated as established truths.
Throughout the therapeutic process, the individual’s understanding of their own experience, their personal choices, and their own pace remain central. Within this relationship, each person is supported in discovering what gives their life meaning and in developing greater self-awareness, autonomy, and more fulfilling relationships with themselves and others.