I’m Maya, an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist practicing on the Ohlone land of Huichin, currently known as Berkeley, CA. In my practice, I see your world as an ecosystem. I’m curious about how the web of your relationships and your values, your nervous system patterns and current life context, the resources available to you, your upbringing, vast life experiences, and your cultural influences all make up who you are. My personal experience with queerness and cross-cultural inbetweenness directly influences 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 curiousity and spacious presence to see what emerges for you.

Decades of navigating chronic pain led me to therapeutic frameworks that center our present-moment experience as the primary site for possible change. The more we 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.

Beyond my role as a therapist, I’ve been a bodyworker, educator, climate justice organizer, farmer, elder-care worker, and folk herbalist (to name a few). I am also a maker and an advocate for the ways that creativity, ritual and ceremony can help us remember ourselves and our place in this world.