Patricia Ramirez, MHC-LP

Associate Mind-Body-Soul Clinician

Patricia Ramirez, MHC-LP
Practicing under the supervision of Jason Maas, LMHC
Telehealth throughout New York. Sliding scale therapy available.

Who I work with

I love working with creatives, healers, highly sensitive people, and those at the edges of identity, becoming themselves in emerging adulthood.

I am moved to work with people sitting with the harder-to-name things—grief, loss, ancestral and intergenerational trauma, the weight of what's happening in the world, and the disorientation that can come from sensing and feeling things deeply in a monoculture that rarely slows down.

I am devoted to helping those who have experienced psychological, sexual, or spiritual harm within spiritual or religious communities—what is often named religious trauma or spiritual abuse, including harm carried out by a church, ashram, sangha, or wellness community.

I also work with yoga students and teachers, and those for whom traumatic memory has begun to surface through their own practice, including those who have been harmed inside wellness and yoga spaces.

Other areas I offer support with include intergenerational exploration, existential and spiritual stress, life transitions, body image and embodiment reclamation, and identity exploration.

Bringing awareness to the breath and body can stir up experiences and memories from times when all was not calm or secure. Our work is to restore that connection.

How I work

Alongside talk therapy and within an integrative transpersonal framework, our work may include somatic therapy and somatic awareness, guided visualizations, mindfulness, trauma-informed and trauma-sensitive movement, creative practice, Internal Family Systems (IFS), ritual, and meaning-making practices.

I offer a gentle, grounded, and collaborative presence where you can feel completely seen and supported. I meet you at your own pace as we explore both the light and shadow aspects of your inner world—working to build a more attuned relationship with your body, emotions, intuition, creativity, and play. Our work can also include developing personalized rituals and tools that support your ongoing mental, physical, and spiritual connection to yourself.

My path to this work

My path is rooted in a lifelong connection to the integration of mind, body, and soul. Influenced early on by my late mother, who was both a nurse and an energy healer, I was introduced to clinical and holistic approaches to healing—an integration that continues to shape everything I do.

Before pursuing formal training, I spent my twenties immersed in learning and applying healing practices with the support of various mentors in yoga, intuitive dance, psychosynthesis coaching, and flower essence therapy. I do not claim a specific lineage, as my work is an integration of these influences that I continue to study, practice, and deepen. I am also committed to the continuous exploration of my own ancestral lineage rooted in my Costa Rican cultural identity.

My holistic studies, coupled with my early academic psychology focus, deepened my understanding of the physical and subtle bodies as powerful gateways to healing, which ultimately led me to NYU, where I completed my M.A. in Counseling for Mental Health and Wellness.

My philosophy

I believe the foundation of sustainable healing starts with the relationship we cultivate with our bodies and breath as our inner anchor. Because the body is a brilliant extension of our unconscious, attuning to it creates an accessible gateway for learning from, healing, and integrating our individual, ancestral, and collective shadows. This work invites us into a space of flow where emotional attunement, somatic and cognitive awareness, and intuitive somatic movement anchor what we discover in conversation.

I am well aware of the systems that strengthen us and the ones that oppress us. The communities we come from, the bodies we live in, and the histories we carry all shape what feels safe, possible, and meaningful in this work. So does the current state of the world—and the grief, rage, or numbness that can come from living inside it as a feeling person. My practice is built to hold that complexity, and to meet each person within it. I am committed to providing LGBTQIA+ affirmative care and to continuously evolve my approach to be inclusive and culturally responsive.

On fees and access

I offer sliding scale therapy. Cost is one of the most common reasons people who want this work never begin it, and I would rather have the conversation than have you decide in advance that it is out of reach. We will talk about fees in our consultation, and if the cost is what stands between you and starting, say so there. We will find a number that works.