Trauma Informed Expressive Therapy
Symbol, Meaning & the Inner Life
An approach integrating conversation, breath, body and creative awareness to access emotional patterns held in the nervous system. You’ll be coached through sessions to support regulation, healing, and deeper self understanding, offered virtually for accessibility and comfort.
The 3 Questions
The 3 Questions that Reveal What is Driving Your Life
A brief psychological guide with prompts to early wounds and adult patterns that might be holding you back. Turn wounds into strengths. Plus weekly essays and lessons on healing, relationships, trauma, money stress and meaning.
Therapeutic Restoration Beyond Talk
When Insight Isn’t Enough
Traditional talk therapy brings insight. Expessive and Somatic therapy helps the body release what insight alone cannot change. Somatic means working with how emotions and stress are held in the body and nervous system.
Guided Support for Women
Guided Expressive & Somatic Work
People move through many transitions throughout life, including changes in relationships, health, identity, and roles.
During these times, anxiety, emotional and physical exhaustion, or disconnection can surface, even for those who are thoughtful and self-aware.
This work offers support by working with the body and nervous system, where stress and emotional patterns are often held. This approach supports steadiness and reconnection without pressure or urgency.
Michele Paiva, PhD
With 25+ years experience, I offer support grounded in financial therapy, spiritual counseling, creativity, and depth-oriented practice.
My work is designed to support steadiness and reconnection during periods of transition and emotional strain.
Read more on the about page.
Three Ways to Begin
A calm starting point, based on what you need right now.
Free Resources
Newsletter & Podcast; Personal letters and quiet conversations exploring emotional life, healing, and meaning. A gentle place to begin, with no commitment beyond reading or listening.
Courses
I offer self-paced courses for women who feel stuck in anxiety, overwhelm, or familiar patterns. Structured support, with optional shared space for those who want it. Courses are specific to women’s struggles and recovery.
Individual Sessions
One-to-one guided support
Private sessions for women navigating transitions, emotional pain, or disconnection. Offered virtually and paced to meet you where you are..

How to connect
Free consultation
Sign up for a free consultation call to explore 1:1 sessions, to see if we are a fit. If so, we try one session and then you decide the level of commitment you desire.
Newsletter
Sign up to the Newsletter for free lessons, updates and links to other resources that I offer.
About the Logo
Birds as symbols of the psyche in motion; ideas, intuitions, or aspects of the self that are emerging and without constraint. The origami bird reflects this sense of unfolding and folding, rather than fixity.
It is my hope that this symbol is received as a quiet transmission of strength and becoming.
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