Maya Sloan Psychotherapy

12/05/2025

There is a younger version of you that still wants to be seen.
They want to speak, rest, laugh freely, and feel safe.
IFS helps you reconnect with that part and finally give them what they needed.

Healing begins in the quiet moments when you tell yourself, “I am safe.”
It is not dramatic. It is not sudden.
It is a gradual softening, a slow unwinding, a feeling of coming home to yourself.

You do not have to rush this. You just have to start.

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11/20/2025

Couples:
Today I wanted to share a bit about couples therapy.

I recently heard that in couples therapy based on Terry Real’s work, we see the relationship as the client. So we really listen for what goes on in the dynamic, for example, one person calls out bad behaviour of the other person, based on previous hurt. Because there is a history of not getting what you want in the relationship, you are reacting to more than is in front of you in the moment. You are reacting to all the previous hurts, so your reaction may be not moderate, either you go after your partner, or you totally wall off.

Either of those, becoming boundary less or not letting anything in, are extremes. They are not relational. When you pursue someone, they get defensive and withdraw. When you withdraw, the other person might pursue. It’s a dance.

It is interesting that we often haven’t learned to be relational. It means to hear the need behind the words, to empathize with your partner’s reality. That’s what we are teaching you in relational life couples therapy. Get in touch if you want to learn more!

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11/17/2025

Step into healing. Step into you. 💛
If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, or unsure of where to start, you don’t have to navigate it alone. Maya Sloan offers a warm, supportive space where you can explore your inner world, understand your parts, and begin creating the relationships and life you truly want.

Through Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Relational Life Therapy (RLT), Maya helps individuals and couples break old patterns, reconnect with themselves, and build healthier, more grounded connections.

Whether you prefer in-person sessions in Halifax or online sessions from anywhere, your healing journey can begin today.
Visit mayasloan.ca to book your session.

10/08/2025

I am visiting my home country of Germany.
There is a lot off beauty and tradition. However, I miss the warmth and relationality of Nova Scotians. I am feeling so off!
I usually make eye contact and smile at people as I walk by, or sit o nbusess and trains, but here people rarely connect. I get that it’s a crowed country, so people protect themselves, but it leaves me feeling undernourished and not seen. I also noticed that conversations are mostly about complaining what is going wrong and boasting about something great one did.
There seem to be a lot of topics that are taboo.

Of course, this a generalization, but it does have a different vibe, and I am so happy that there is more openness in Canada! Let’s keep connecting to others by giving them a smile and acknowledging their presence!

09/30/2025

I am visiting my home country of Germany, visiting family. My heart and soul wants to share all the amazing things I learned over the last few years: how to meet as equals, how to respect each other, how to get access to the inner Self, how to make understand what I perceive less like a solid world but more as a a projection. There are so many things I am excited about how I want to share how I am feeling so intereconnected. How I want to understand how you understand why we are here. To walk the road together each in our unique ways, but able to give each other nourishment. We can sit together and say: wow! You are me and I am you, we are precious, how we see the apparent world is our path. Let’s share how we experience it.

I am offering a group on Friday mornings at 9:30pm starting on October 24.

Will you join us?
Let’s meditate together and feel the Earth underneath our feet. 🦶 Feel the love around us. ❤️ Let’s share from the depth of our inner Self. From our consciousness and both our expansion and contraction. We are in this together! No one is better or worse. Come as you are!

09/10/2025

I have almost finished all the training in Relational Life Therapy, which is a therapy modality used for couples. I only have six weeks of Small Group Mentoring left. After that group, ,I am I am expected to submit a video of a couple doing therapy with me.

It has been a challenge to find a couple willing to be videoed over an a few sessions, since it can be so vulnerable to work on relationship issues.
I am so grateful to those couples who let me video them in the past.

I am looking for a brave, curious couple who is interested in doing couples therapy but is not at the brink of divorce. I would do this work pro bono.

I would like to work with this couple weekly for about eight weeks and be video recorded for all the sessions. The videos will only be shown to one assessor at the Relational Life Therapy Institute and to the Small Group Mentoring group.

Please contact me if you are interested in getting more clarity in your relationship, to experience the effective tools and concepts used in Relational Life Therapy.

To find out more about Relational Life Therapy and the founder Terry Real, please check out: https://relationallife.com/

Please contact me at maya@mayasloan.ca if you are interested in working intensely on deepening the connection in your relationship for free. So looking forward to working with you and sharing the love of a more relational life!

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08/20/2025

My summer was rich with time for growth as an individual and relational being. There was more time for play, relaxation and gatherings.
I feel refreshed as I come back to the office, and feel a deeper sense of intuition and compassion.

We are all so connected. We all have so much depth.

Sometimes we don’t trust ourselves and others, so we stay in protection mode, like we withdraw and numb ourselves. Or we feel the whole world is against us.
It makes us feel limited and critical of ourselves.

Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) has been the most transformational form of growth that I myself and my clients have experienced. I have learned to witness others fully by being Self-led in the therapy chair.

Self is our inner core being that is fully present and doesn’t have any pushiness and agenda. It is here to be with what is. Everyone else has a Self inside of themselves. It can lead more when the protective parts of our psyche trust and let go. Then something magical happens: the mind and heart fully connect and live fully, radiating our inner light. So many things start flowing, as we are not blocking our energy anymore, and we start loving ourselves.

If you would like to try IFS therapy for yourself, to see how it works and if it is helpful for you, please get in touch! You don’t have the feel like you ‘need’ therapy. It is a modality that helps you grow.
I work in person at my office in Halifax’s West End and online. I offer 15 mins discovery calls. Please do not hesitate to call and DM me.

08/13/2025

I just returned from 5 days in the magical forest near Fredricton NB that hosts the Future Forest Music Festival for the last 8 years or so. What a powerful experience to be surrounded by open- hearted people, who are all there to share their joy and appreciation. I found it so healing for my heart. I recommend this festival to anyone who is looking to experience a different state of being together in harmony and bliss.