You know who you’re expected to be.
You’re not sure who you are.
Attachment-based therapy for South Asian women across Texas, navigating identity, relational wounds, and disconnection from self.
Here, you don’t have to know who you are yet. You only have to be willing to begin.
Who This Space is For
From the outside, your life may look fine. Internally, you feel disconnected from yourself, emotionally exhausted, or unsure who you are beneath the roles, expectations, and versions of yourself you’ve learned to become.
“You would rather betray yourself than disappoint someone else.”
Today This Can Look Like:
a lingering feeling of not being enough
doing the most for others and quietly feeling alone or resentful
chasing connection in situations where you don’t feel fully chosen
difficulty trusting your decisions or direction in life
wanting your inner world and outer life to finally feel more consistent
Services
Many clients move between these approaches as the work unfolds.
They are not separate paths, but different entry points into the same deeper process of reconnecting with yourself.
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Individual Counseling
Relational, insight-oriented therapy for understanding the patterns underneath your experiences, putting language to what you’ve felt but never fully named, and building the emotional awareness and inner steadiness that allows deeper change to hold.
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Trauma & Somatic Therapy
For what insight alone cannot shift. Body-based approaches including EMDR, mindfulness, nervous system work, and compassionate, curious exploration of the experiences shaping present patterns to help process trauma more deeply, reconnect with yourself safely, and soften what has been carried in both mind and body.
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Therapy Groups & Community Spaces
Small-group depth work and themed workshops for women navigating similar emotional and relational patterns. These spaces are designed to support reflection, connection, and shared exploration.
Currently in formation. Watch for updates.
Not sure where you fit? We can explore that together.
How the Work Unfolds
What to expect from trauma therapy,
from consultation through the deeper work.
Most people want to know what they’re walking into before they begin. While every client’s process looks different, these are the phases many clients move through over time.
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We’ll begin with a free 20-minute consultation to explore what’s bringing you in, answer questions, and see whether this feels like the right fit for both of us.
You do not need to arrive with the right words or fully understand what’s going on before we talk. Many people don’t. We’ll briefly explore what has been feeling difficult lately, what you’re hoping for from therapy, and whether my approach feels like a fit.
I’ll also answer questions and walk you through scheduling, fees, and intake paperwork so the next steps feel clear.
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The beginning of therapy focuses on understanding your story.
We explore your background, relationships, family dynamics, emotional patterns, cultural context, and what life has actually felt like for you over time. Many clients arrive knowing something feels off but struggling to explain it, whether that looks like emotional shutdown, chronic overthinking, people pleasing, or feeling disconnected from yourself.
Together, we begin putting language to experiences that may have felt confusing, wordless, or difficult to fully understand on your own, so you have something to hold onto as the work continues.
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From there, we begin identifying goals together, though they often deepen as therapy progresses.
Someone may arrive wanting relief from anxiety, relationship stress, or feeling disconnected from themselves, and gradually begin recognizing the deeper patterns underneath shaping how they relate, cope, and move through the world.
The early work focuses on building enough internal stability for deeper work to feel safe and manageable. This may include coping tools, nervous system awareness, grounding, emotional regulation, and learning how to notice when you are activated, disconnected, or reacting from old patterns that are no longer serving you.
The body gets support before it is asked to revisit difficult emotions and past experiences.
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Once there is enough capacity and safety, we begin moving into deeper trauma processing.
This work often looks like slowing down enough to notice what your body, emotions, and relationships have been communicating for years, processing unresolved experiences safely, and building a more connected relationship with yourself over time.
This can include EMDR, parts work, somatic exploration, relational processing, grief work, and understanding the experiences that shaped how you relate to yourself, others, and the world around you.
Rather than only understanding your patterns intellectually, this work focuses on helping your body and nervous system process what has remained emotionally stuck beneath the surface so change can feel more integrated and lasting over time.
We move at your pace.
Heart of the Work
Many people learn early that belonging comes from becoming who other people need them to be. You learn to read the room, manage other people's emotions, avoid disappointment, and hide parts of yourself that do not feel welcome. Over time, you can become so focused on staying connected that you lose touch with your own needs, emotions, limits, and desires without even realizing it. What once helped you belong can slowly begin to leave you feeling disconnected from yourself.
“You were never meant to leave yourself behind in order to belong.”
To me, healing is not about becoming a different person. It is about creating enough safety to reconnect with the parts of yourself that got left behind along the way. Therapy becomes a space where you no longer have to choose between being yourself and staying connected to others. There is no perfect version of you to arrive at. We are always evolving. The work is learning how to come back to yourself again and again with greater compassion, curiosity, and permission to be exactly where you are.
MEET YOUR THERAPIST
Maryam Munis, MS, LPC
Founder & Lead Therapist
Texas-licensed · EMDR-trained · attachment-focused, somatic, and culturally responsive practice
This work had to become deeply personal before it could ever become professional for me.
Like many of the women I work with now, I know what it feels like to lose yourself while trying to belong. To shape yourself around what feels safest or most needed until you are no longer sure which parts of you feel real anymore. To carry different versions of yourself between home, culture, relationships, and who you are trying to become. To keep searching for something outside yourself without fully realizing how deeply you are longing for yourself underneath it all.
In many ways, the reasons I became a therapist were the exact reasons I eventually needed therapy, too. I believe deeply that I cannot walk someone somewhere I have not been myself or am not willing to go alongside them. My own journey of making sense of myself and learning how to return to who I am continues to shape the way I sit with people today and why this work matters so deeply to me.
Fees and Insurance
Clear expectations and logistics are part of starting therapy well. Here’s what to know.
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Initial Intake Session
$250 | 75–90 minutes
Individual Therapy Session
$175 | 55–60 minutes
All sessions are virtual and available to clients across Texas. Payment is due at the time of service.
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Some situations may require support outside of regular therapy sessions. These services are billed separately at the following rates:
Court appearances, depositions, or legal testimony — $450/hour (4-hour minimum)
Documentation for academic accommodations, medical leave, or other supporting documentation — $175/hour (billed in 30-minute increments)
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I am currently an out-of-network provider and do not bill insurance directly. Many clients with PPO plans are able to receive partial reimbursement through out-of-network mental health benefits.
Upon request, I can provide a monthly superbill, which is a detailed receipt you may submit to your insurance company for possible reimbursement.
If you plan to use out-of-network benefits, it can be helpful to contact your insurance provider beforehand to better understand your coverage. Questions you may want to ask include:
Do I have out-of-network mental health benefits?
What percentage of session fees are reimbursed?
Is there a deductible I need to meet first?
Is there a limit on the number of sessions per year?
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Under the federal No Surprises Act, you have the right to receive a Good Faith Estimate outlining the expected cost of services. This is provided in writing at the start of our work together.
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Sessions cancelled with less than 48 hours notice are charged at the full session rate.
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Therapy with me is not a crisis or emergency service. If you are in crisis or feel unsafe, please call or text 988, call 911, or go to your nearest emergency room.
If any part of this feels confusing or overwhelming,
we can talk through it together during a consultation call.
Common Questions
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Many of the women I work with have tried therapy before. Often what was missing was not effort or insight, but the depth, relational safety, or cultural understanding that allows insight to actually shift something. The work here is built for that.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on changing thoughts to shift feelings, which can be helpful for certain symptoms and patterns. My work also focuses on the emotional, relational, and nervous system patterns underneath those thoughts. We use insight where it helps and the body where it is needed, because lasting change often requires both.
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Coping tools can be an important part of therapy, especially in the beginning when building safety and stability. At the same time, my work is not only focused on symptom management. Together, we also explore the deeper emotional patterns, experiences, and survival strategies shaping how you relate to yourself and others today.
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When it feels meaningful to you, yes. Therapy can hold space to explore faith, doubt, values, and spiritual identity with cultural awareness, never pressure and never judgment. I welcome clients across all religious traditions, including those navigating loss, transition, or reshaping of faith.
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No. While my practice is centered around the experiences of South Asian women, I work with anyone who resonates with the themes you have read here: identity, belonging, perfectionism, attachment patterns, relational wounds, and the experience of feeling disconnected from yourself. What matters most is whether the work resonates with you.
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Yes. Confidentiality is one of the foundations of therapy and something I take seriously. I also understand that for many South Asian women, privacy can carry additional weight within family systems, community spaces, and shared cultural circles. Your sessions are protected by law and held with care, with rare exceptions involving imminent safety concerns or legally mandated reporting. We review confidentiality and its limits together clearly at the start of our work.
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It depends on what you are working on and how deep you want to go. Some clients come in needing support around a specific issue, while others are looking for longer-term depth work and deeper relational healing over time. We talk about pacing and direction together throughout the process, rather than therapy having a fixed timeline from the beginning.