A Sacred Journey
This journey of growth and healing is cutting through dense jungle of personal history, navigating with bare hearts and feet that desire to follow the whispered hints of possibility.
Some days, the feet that guide your way and the hands that do the cutting, are those of the sage, withered and knowing.
Other days they are the feet and hands of the wondrous inner child.
No matter, our feet and hands have been ours, even before we were born, through every experience of holding on, and letting go, as we dare to make your way.
– Maggie Mer McDanal
Mind * Heart * Body * Soul
Psychotherapy for the WHOLE SELF
As living beings we have an innate ability to heal. Not just the wounds that are reflected back to us by mirrors, like cuts and bruises, but also attachment, depression, anxiety, transition, grief/loss, crises, trauma, and the inability to connect to family or friends in a meaningful way. Just as we have needed a doctors help to stitch or re-set a bone so that healing may occur, we need the help of therapists to re-set the patterns of our emotions and thoughts. I believe each one of us has an intuitive map by which our spirit desires to journey and a unique key formed by our life’s experiences and lessons, from which our intuitive map can be deciphered.
We can lose sight of one, or trust in the other, leaving us to feel hopeless, lonely, bereft.
With help, we can find ourselves again.
It’s not easy to ask for help to find the person that you know yourself to be underneath it all.
But asking is the only first step to finding.
If I don’t want to live a life of callouses or shoes, then I can choose my steps wisely, welcoming the blisters and bleeding that are the nature of bare feet while also tending to the greater hurts with want to let them heal.
I can nurture a sustainable stride from which I will never have to abandon my path, while holding my eyes to the horizon so that I may be guided by the natural processes of our precious Earth.
And with trust in my heart.
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Are you searching for a sacred journey of excellence and expansion? An experience that is holistic, curious, non-judgmental, embodied, and thus modeled?
Maggie is licensed by the state of Florida as a QUALIFIED SUPERVISOR to provide supervision for Mental Health Counselor Candidates and Marriage and Family Therapist Candidates.
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I specialize in a transpersonal, strengths based, person-centered, humanistic approach integrating traditionally successful modalities like EMDR, NLP, CBT, Family Systems, Internal Family Systems, and Narrative Therapy with an eclectic weave of expressive interventions including inner child exploration, existentialism, art, music, film, sand tray, nature and play therapies, dream-work, guided imagery, and movement.
Do you want to learn how to incorporate somatic exploration into your sessions with clients by first incorporating them into our time together? We will pull out mats to do that. Or meet in a pool.
I have nearly twelve years’ experience in the field of psychotherapy working with children, teens, and adults. Nearly nine of which have been in private practice. I can help you develop the skills of private practice including treatment plans, note keeping, marketing, and office/admin setup.
I specialize in all three forms of trauma – acute, chronic, and complex, grief (loss), attachment, major life transitions, and oppression, as well as: addiction, adoption, aging and meaning making, anxiety, body positivity, chronic pain, codependency, depression, divorce and relationship conflict/disconnect, identity exploration and affirmation including gender/sexuality/religion, etc., infertility, LGBTQ, life transitions (changes), marital and pre-marital counseling, mindfulness, pregnancy, pre-natal and post-partum, self-esteem, spirituality exploration, stress, women’s issues, and private practice coaching/supervision.
I have so much enthusiasm for the arts and sciences of psychotherapy to share with you.
It has been my experience for many years in this field, that clients do not have to live by the negative symptoms that accompany trauma, oppression, grief, and the like. It has been my life’s work to help others stop living their fears and socially imposed limitations, and instead, reclaim their choices, hopes, and dreams.
If my offerings feel like the next right choice for you, reach out to me. My doors are open wide and all are welcome in celebration of your unique self on this very personalized path of licensure as a therapist.