Compassionate Inquiry
The Compassionate Inquiry® Approach (CI)
The Compassionate Inquiry® Approach, developed by Dr. Gabor Maté over decades of work with clients and retreat participants, is a gentle yet profound therapeutic approach. It helps reveal - and gradually release - the layers of early trauma, constriction, and unexpressed emotion held in the body in the form of old stories, patterns of illness, stress, and even addiction.
In so many workplaces, the addiction isn’t to chemicals but to feelings that create a short-lived illusion of self-worth: achievement, speed, external recognition, or hyper-connection. Over time, the system starts rewarding those who override their limits, and people slowly lose contact with themselves.
When an organization can’t nourish the deeper human hungers for belonging, imagination, freedom, genuine recognition, people start to adapt. At first, that adaptation is brilliance: a way to survive, to weave ourselves into the fabric of the place. When adaptation becomes the air we breathe, it stops being intelligence and becomes something painful - disconnection from the self we were meant to stay in touch with – our own inner GPS.
But when we consciously loosen the grip on these addictions, something new begins to unfold. We find ourselves moving toward greater spontaneity, genuine choice, inner expansion, and a sense of freedom that feels both earned and deeply authentic. The time has come for us to feel more, heal forward, and lead a more compassionate future. Because leadership begins where the wound once was.
Schedule a Compassionate Inquiry®-Informed Session (Special Rate Jan 2026 to Aug 2026)
As a seasoned Trauma-Informed Neuro Life Coach and Change Facilitator… and after spending a full and transformative year (330-hour year-long professional training), in Compassionate Inquiry®, under world-renowned trauma and addiction specialist Dr. Gabor Maté - I’m thrilled to bring this beautiful approach into my practice. To celebrate, I’m offering sessions at a special beginner’s rate until August 2026. The regular price of a CI session after August 2026 will be $155.
Individual session - $70/session (50min) - Book here!
This is a deeply supportive modality for meeting the places in life that ask the most of us… where patterns strain, clarity blurs, and old strategies quietly stop working. It offers meaningful support with relationship challenges, especially when familiar dynamics keep repeating. It helps bring steadiness and insight during confusing or high-pressure moments and creates space to release habits and coping mechanisms that no longer serve who you’re becoming.
This work is particularly powerful during life transitions when identity, direction, or purpose feel in flux. It gently reshapes your relationship with substances or impulsive behaviors, not through force, but through understanding. It also helps you work skillfully with triggers and intense emotions, so they become information rather than obstacles.
Over time, many people find themselves more present- with their own inner world and with others - less reactive, more grounded. There’s often a growing sense of ease, confidence, and self-trust, alongside a deeper, more integrated connection between mind and body.
The work doesn’t rush you. It meets you where you are, and invites you forward with honesty, compassion, and quiet strength. In a world that praises performance over presence, many of us learned to hide. Our feelings, our power, our truth. What if your feelings were never a weakness, but a sophisticated compass? It’s time to stop asking, “Is it safe to be me?”, and start building a life where the answer is YES.
Maria Marc
