Mari Ritalahti is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 7 years of professional experience helping individual adults navigate and work with trauma, anxiety, overwhelm, relational wounds, depression, self-doubt, shame, and life transitions. Mari’s clients often come to therapy sensing that their struggles live not only in their thoughts but also in their bodies, and Mari meets her clients exactly where they are. Working collaboratively, Mari helps clients move at a pace that feels safe and grounded; she helps them bring presence, curiosity, and respect to their experiences so they can experience more freedom, authenticity, and choice in their lives. With unique training in Buddhist Psychology, Hakomi Therapy, Somatic Trauma Therapy, and years of Zen training, Mari’s approach creates a therapeutic space that is steady, spacious, and deeply attuned. Clients share that Mari helps them feel seen, safe, and understood in a way they haven’t experienced before, and her relational, embodied, mindful presence is what allows real transformation to happen.