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Daily Inspiration: Meet Marrissa Rhodes

Today we’d like to introduce you to Marrissa Rhodes.

Hi Marrissa, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
I’ve always been drawn to what lives beneath the surface of things, as well as to the fringes of what is deemed mainstream. As a child, I was deeply empathic and highly intuitive. I could feel the unspoken currents in a room long before I had the words for them. And, like many therapists, I wanted to understand the dynamics I came from, to make sense of the invisible forces that shaped me. That sensitivity eventually became my compass.

My formal training was in marriage, couple, and family counseling with an emphasis in spiritual formation, which prepared me to see everything as part of a system, or a greater whole. That systemic view naturally aligned with my deep interest in Indigenous and ancient wisdom traditions, which teach that all things are sentient, interconnected, and worthy of reverence. From there, I sought post-graduate training to become a psychoanalyst, learning how the unconscious shapes who we are, how we love, and how we lead our life.

Over time, I’ve found myself drawn to the intersection of quantum physics, energy work, ancient wisdom traditions and psychoanalysis, ultimately exploring how the underpinnings of reality and the mind work together. Along the way, I also became a Reiki Master and began integrating understanding of the subtle energy field into my personal practice.

For years, my work has been one-on-one, in the quiet space of the therapy room, guiding clients through the deepest layers of their inner world. I still carry a small caseload of clients, and have expanded my practice into a group practice at this point. But I began to see that this work: the integration of emotional depth, spiritual intelligence, quantum understanding, and psychoanalytic insight, needed to reach beyond those four walls. That’s what inspired me to create my podcast, Reverence for Rêverie, a space where I explore psychoanalytic concepts, mysticism, quantum physics, and the symbolic intelligence that shapes our lives.

Today, I help leaders of all kinds, creatives, visionaries and soul-led individuals dismantle the patterns that limit their potential, reconnect with their intuition, and build the inner architecture to hold their purpose and power so that they can live out their legacy. My path has been anything but linear. It’s been a weaving of psychology, mysticism, and lived experience, but every step has brought me closer to what I do now, which is holding a field where people remember who they are at the deepest level, and begin to lead from that truth.

We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
It hasn’t been a smooth road, and honestly, I’m not sure it’s meant to be. My path has been as much about unlearning as it has been about learning. There have been seasons of intense uncertainty, moments of deep self-doubt, and times when I questioned whether I could hold the responsibility of the work I’ve felt called to do.

Like many in the healing professions, I had to face my own patterns. For me, some of those were debilitating perfectionism, fear of visibility, the tendencies to over-give. I also had to learn how to stay rooted in my own truth while holding space for others. That meant doing my own deep, psychoanalytic work, expanding my energetic capacity through energy practices, and confronting the narratives that told me I needed to do more, contort myself, or be palatable to be “enough.”

There’s a cliché in the therapy world that you can only take others as far as you have gone within yourself. I’ve traversed depths and valleys in my own life in a way that is a rare find, which means when someone sits across from me, I don’t just meet them with theory and intellectualization. I meet them with lived experience, embodiment, and a nervous system that knows how to hold them in the deepest places without flinching.

There’s also been the reality of walking an unconventional path. Blending psychoanalysis, Indigenous and ancient wisdom, energy work, and quantum principles isn’t something you can just pull from a textbook. I’ve had to navigate skepticism, deconstruction of my prior faith, decolonization of my mind, misunderstanding, and the loneliness that can come with forging a way into a field that doesn’t yet have a clear name.

But I’ve learned that the bumps in the road are part of what makes the work powerful and lasting. Every obstacle has been an initiation, refining both my presence and my purpose. The challenges haven’t just shaped me; they’ve prepared me to guide others through their own thresholds with depth, reverence, and clarity. And to do it with unwavering presence.

Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
I see life as art. Every experience, every conversation, every relationship is a brushstroke in a much larger picture. My work is an extension of that perspective. I’m a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and Reiki Master by trade, who specializes in helping high-achieving, soul-led leaders, visionaries and creatives understand their unconscious patterns, reconnect with their intuition, and build the inner architecture required to live out their legacy. That is one aspect of my art.

Creative expression has always been part of who I am. I love painting and writing (especially poetry and other forms of creative writing) because it lets me speak in metaphor, symbols, images, and textures, the same way the unconscious speaks. I bring that same artistry into my work, whether I’m in a one-on-one session, crafting a podcast episode, or curating a group experience.

This year, I’m curating and hosting the Resonance Rising Summit, a leadership and personal transformation gathering that has allowed me to combine all of my interests — psychology, ancient wisdom, quantum principles, energy work, and the art of human connection — into one immersive, global event. I’m also launching another aspect of my business and am unveiling a new offering soon.

What I’m most proud of is the way I integrate depth, precision, and reverence in everything I do. I’m not interested in just offering more information or strategy. I’m here to hold a living field that initiates change in people when they are ready to step into it, I’ve seen it evidenced time and time again.

What sets me apart is that I’m equally at home in many intersecting schools of thought, I don’t see them as separate; I see them as threads of the same tapestry, and my work is about helping others see, and live, the wholeness of their own picture. As Walt Whitman writes, “Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes.”

What would you say have been one of the most important lessons you’ve learned?
The most important lesson I’ve learned is that depth and pace are not the same thing, and that real transformation rarely happens on a timeline the ego approves of. We live in a culture addicted to quick fixes and “hacks”, but the work I do, and honestly the life I want to live, is about tending to the roots, not just polishing the branches. That requires going deeply into the nutrient-rich soil of the underground, and understanding that all there ever is is the process.

I’ve also witnessed, over and over, the profound interconnectedness of the energetic field we are a part of. When I do the work inside myself — when something truly shifts in me — it opens the space for a shift in the people around me. I see it clearly in my patients and clients: as I deepen my own presence with myself, their capacity to meet themselves also deepens. The field between us changes, and with it, so does what becomes possible. And this is ubiquitous regardless of whether one is a therapist or not.

This has taught me to trust the intelligence of the process, whether in my own evolution or in guiding someone else’s. Sometimes the biggest breakthroughs come not from pushing harder, but from creating the space to listen, to be with what’s uncomfortable, and to let what’s ready emerge in its own time. When you honor the timing of the soul (and the web of connection we’re all part of) the results are far more beautiful than anything you could have forced or planned for.

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