There are things you carry that have been waiting for their turn.
Perhaps you have spent years being fluent in other people’s needs. Perhaps something in you (a chapter, a wound, a history) has never quite found the page. Perhaps you are in the middle of a transition that rearranged everything, and the language for it hasn’t arrived yet.
You don’t need to know what you want to say. You only need to sense that something in you wants to be heard.
This is where we begin, through therapeutic writing, expressive journaling, and poetry therapy, in a space where the soft animal of your story can finally take up room.
“What are the words you do not yet have?” — Audre Lorde
With Audre Lorde’s wise question, we start to shatter silences that were never meant to last that long,
This is a space that listens not only to your words, but to what lives beneath them. To the tightness in your jaw. The weight you carry on your shoulders. To the questions that follow you, the fears you can’t quite name, the stories that keep repeating until you finally turn and face them.
Here, you pull on the thread of a feeling and follow it. You shape something from the formless. You fill the cracks in what was broken with something that holds and catches the light.
In this space, we tend. We untangle. We give name to what has been nameless.
We rewrite.
We reconnect.
We return to ourselves.
Maybe you recognise yourself here.
You are the one who holds everyone else together and has no idea what you would say if someone asked how you are.
You are in the middle of something that doesn’t have a name yet: a loss, a leaving, a life that no longer fits the shape you built for it.
You carry a history, a family, a place, a language that lives in your body but has never been given the space to speak.
You have things inside you that feel too large, or too old, or too tangled to begin. You’ve always felt things deeply, and somewhere along the way learned to keep that quiet.
What we do here
One-to-one sessions
For when you need a space entirely your own.
We meet online, just the two of us, with a blank page and whatever you bring to it. No agenda, no performance. Through guided writing prompts, reflection, and the slow work of paying attention, we find the words that have been waiting, and begin to understand what they’re telling you.
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Group workshops
For when writing alongside others makes the silence smaller.
There is something particular that happens when a group of people write together, a solidarity, a recognition that your story is yours alone and also, in some way, shared. These online workshops offer guided therapeutic writing and poetry therapy in a contained, caring space.
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hi, I'm María
therapeutic writing facilitator & teacher
I am a poetry therapy practitioner, educator, and writer. For over a decade, I have worked at the intersection of writing, emotional well-being, and the invisible wounds we carry from a perspective that does not separate the body, the personal history, and the word.
I trained in poetry therapy and expressive writing, and my work is transdisciplinary by conviction: I draw from bibliotherapy, somatic education, gender studies, and trauma theory. I work in English and Spanish, between Ireland and Spain.
I am not a clinical therapist. I am a companion. What I offer is a space where writing becomes a tool for listening, for making sense, and for care.
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