Maria Spathis is a registered Transpersonal Psychotherapist and Business Consultant with a strong background in both corporate systems and human wellbeing. She has over 20 years’ experience across human resources, payroll, and organisational operations, supported by formal qualifications in Psychology, Business (HR Management), and Transpersonal Therapy.

Maria works at the intersection of people, policy, and change. Her knowledge of enterprise agreements, Fair Work requirements, compliance frameworks, HR systems, and psychosocial workplace risks allows her to turn complex issues into clear, practical, and people-focused solutions, where legal obligations and human needs are addressed together.

Alongside her corporate career, Maria has spent many years working one-to-one with individuals facing major life transitions. She supports clients navigating grief and loss, career change, identity shifts, relationship breakdowns, and periods of deep uncertainty. Her own experiences - including the death of her father, a six-month journey across Australia, and the disruption of the pandemic - shaped her understanding of how loss affects both personal wellbeing and professional life.

Drawing on this combined professional and lived experience, Maria developed the Via Method: a grief-aware framework designed to support individuals and workplaces through change. The method helps workplaces address psychosocial risks such as burnout, transition fatigue, and reduced role clarity, while supporting people to rebuild stability, resilience, and direction.

Known for her ability to make complex issues understandable and actionable, Maria helps individuals and workplaces move through change with clarity, care, and long-term sustainability.

Spathis Wellbeing grew from the values of integrity, care, and service that shaped my family. It stands as a living tribute to my father, whose life was defined by humility, compassion, and a deeply human commitment to helping others. He was a humanitarian not by title but by nature, someone who moved through the world with a rare gentleness, offering care where it was needed and dignity where it had been lost.

His passing reshaped my understanding of grief, not as an interruption to life but as a powerful teacher of what truly matters. Through him, I learned that healing is an act of courage, that service is a form of love, and that our deepest losses can become the very ground from which purpose grows.

Spathis Wellbeing is the continuation of his ethos.
It is the legacy of a man who believed in people, who saw the sacredness in everyday kindness, and who understood that compassion has the power to alter the course of a life.

Every framework I build, every client I support, and every workplace I guide is, in some way, touched by the values he embodied. The focus on grief—its wisdom, its rage, its capacity to renew—is a reflection of the way he lived: attuned to humanity, grounded in integrity, and committed to meeting life as it is.

This work is my way of carrying him forward.
It is the thread between his story and my own—a reminder that legacy is not what we leave behind, but what we awaken in others.

In Orphic and Platonic tradition, death was sacred—an initiation into deeper realms of understanding. Loss, transition, and change hold the same liminal quality: a metaxy, the threshold between what was and what is yet to be. These passages are not merely disruptions to be endured, but living catalysts—poiesis, a creative and regenerative force. Through symbolic descent, we retrieve what was essential, reweave our fractured narratives, and emerge in new forms of strength. What once unmoored us becomes the very passage into transformation. The discomfort is not bypassed but honoured—as philosopher’s stone, as alchemical agent, as the soul’s work. This model invites a radical reframing: grief as a portal, not a prison.

Spathis comes from the Greek word spathē, meaning a blade or sword - not one used to harm, but to reveal. It stands for clarity and truth coming into view.

In ancient philosophy, the sword symbolised discernment: the ability to cut through confusion, denial, and false stories to reach what truly matters. Spathis carries this same intention.

Healing here is not about fixing what is broken. It is about meeting loss, change, and difficulty with attention and honesty. When we do this, pain can be understood, integrated, and given meaning. Endings are no longer just endings - they become turning points, where something new can begin.

Our society has lost many of the ways we once supported people through loss, change, and major life transitions. Spathis aims to bring that support back - not by copying the past, but by reshaping its practical wisdom for modern life.

In ancient times, shared stories and rituals helped communities process change together rather than leaving people to carry it alone. Spathis takes inspiration from this idea, viewing loss and transition as experiences that deserve time, recognition, and shared understanding.

Instead of hiding grief or pushing through change as quickly as possible, Spathis encourages us to acknowledge these moments and make meaning from them. When we do this, healing is not just personal - it strengthens how we care for one another as a society.