I’m Maya, an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist practicing on the Ohlone land of Huichin, currently known as Berkeley, CA. I grew up moving around a lot, mostly outside of the United States. My experience of cross-cultural inbetweenness weaves directly into how I work, as I am always considering the distinct tapestry of stories, backgrounds, and truths you carry with you.

My approach to therapy is dynamic and connective, balancing deep inquiry with playful curiosity and spacious presence to see what emerges for you.

Decades of navigating injury and chronic pain led me to therapeutic frameworks that center our present-moment experience as the primary site for inquiry and possible change. The more we build our capacity to feel ourselves in-the-moment, the more fully we can inhabit our lives from a place of awareness and choice. I see therapy as a practice of uncovering and exploring together in service of experiencing more moments of aliveness, resonance, self-knowing, and belonging in a world designed to keep us out of sync with ourselves and each other.

I view each person’s world as a distinct ecosystem. My approach to therapy weaves together your relationships, your values, your nervous system patterns, current life context, the resources available to you, your upbringing and vast life experiences, your cultural influences, and much, much more. Root questions we follow are what and how do you want to grow?