Meet Marissa

I’m Marissa Thibeau, a creative facilitator and guide who helps people slow down, listen inward, and reconnect with what matters most.

My work has always blended structure and humanity. For over two decades, I’ve supported individuals and teams through complex change across healthcare, technology, and wellness, designing systems and experiences that center people.  

Again and again, I’ve seen that clarity doesn’t come from pushing harder, but from creating space to pause, feel, and reflect. 

Life has asked me to practice that truth personally as well. Through seasons of illness, caregiving, loss, identity shifts, and profound transitions, creativity became a quiet companion.  I was that planner who used a plan to plan the plan - and it was holding me back from experiencing my true self.  Blending methods with creative intentionality, has been a way to stay present with what was unfolding without needing to explain, fix, or rush it. 

But the slowing down doesn't come easy and its even downright terrifying at times.  When being alert, focused and productive is what keeps us truly safe - letting even a tiny bit of that go can set of all the alarm bells within us.  It takes time, patience, safe places and exploring on our own terms to slow down even for a few moments - letting go 1% at a time.

Even after all the books I've read and degrees I've earned, trainings, studies and sitting with practitioners of all sorts, alternative traditional and all the in between - it is the drawing, movement, and mindful awareness offered me a language when words felt limited.  

When my body and mind needed a break.

It gave me a steady anchor when certainty was unavailable or when I simply was too afraid to feel.

This way of being - patient, spacious, and deeply human - is what shapes my method of Drawn from Within.