About Mahyar

With a passion for facilitating growth and healing, Mahyar Nili's life and calling is inspired by family, friends, nature, the arts, spiritual and energetic practices, and many great teachers and healing arts professionals who work holistically and sustainably with embodied cultural sensitivity around issues of gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, religion, and ability.

Mahyar is a Marriage Family Therapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (as well as an assistant at Somatic Experiencing trainings and personal session provider for Beginning Level students), with training in EMDR, Brainspotting, Comprehensive Resource Model, a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology with emphasis in Expressive Arts Therapy from California Institute of Integral Studies, and Bachelor of Arts degrees in Art, and Gender Studies concentrating on Intersectional and Global Feminisms, summa cum laude, with highest departmental honors, from University California, Los Angeles. Mahyar is a conversational Farsi speaker.

Kind words about Somatic Experiencing with Mahyar:

Mahyar brings deep compassion and wisdom to our work, and helped me tremendously to just listen to, notice and be present with what happens, allowing me to just sit with intense feelings and let them pass. I've been able to work gently and easily through pain and lingering traumas I wasn't even aware of (but my body certainly was). Mahyar's presence, thoughtfulness and willingness to show up and do the work with clients is beautiful and transformative. Anyone would be lucky (and smart) to work with her. ~ R.T.

Only from your heart can you touch the sky.
~ Rumi (via Barks)