“Let everything happen to you:
beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.”
- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours
Hi!
I’m Maryam Moody, LCSW.
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, as well as a poet, a queer femme, and a mom.
My therapy practice focuses on grief and loss. Psychotherapy can be helpful for grieving a death, as well as for mourning the losses that come with chronic illness.
I have significant professional experience with many types of grief, including traumatic death, perinatal loss, suicide, bereaved parents, and pediatric palliative care. In addition to my private practice, I am a social worker in a Long COVID clinic.
I help people create more joyful, spontaneous, and meaningful lives.
You are the authority on your own life, and I respect your expertise. My job is not to change you. It’s to listen, learn, and help you draw on your own innate ability to grow.
Why Broken Cup?
“One day [Buddhist teacher] Ajahn Chah held up a beautiful Chinese tea cup. ‘To me this cup is already broken. Because I know its fate, I can enjoy it here and now. And when it’s gone, it’s gone.’ When we understand the truth of uncertainty and relax, we become free.”
—Jack Kornfield, The Wise Heart (emphasis added)
This story illustrates both the sorrows and the delights of impermanence. There’s grief, but also gratitude, in knowing that the cup will eventually shatter. Every moment with it is precious.
Together we can:
Celebrate your unique strengths
Identify your core values
Accept what is
Decide what you want to change
Connect to your true self
Develop authentic relationships
Cultivate self-compassion
Understand where you come from and where you’re going
Move beyond just surviving
I recognize that trauma and mental illness are rooted in the violence of racism, sexism, ageism, ableism, zionism, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, and all forms of systemic oppression.
I affirm all genders, sexualities, and bodies, and I welcome clients of all ages, races, ethnicities, abilities, religions, histories, classes, and immigration stories.
My work is aligned with the values of service, interdependence, and transparency.