From the film set to the therapy room.

In Her Own Words

This wasn't the plan — but it was the path.

I grew up in an entertainment industry family, and for eight years I worked in film and television myself before I ever sat in a therapist's chair as anything other than a client. I loved that world, but what I loved most about it — watching people, really watching them, the way a face changes right before someone tells the truth — turned out to be the same thing that eventually pulled me into this work. Film taught me to notice what's underneath the performance. Therapy became the place I could actually do something with what I noticed.

I went back to school and earned my master's from Antioch University in 2000. A few years later, in 2003, I trained as a yoga instructor at Maha Yoga in Brentwood — not as a side credential, but because I kept seeing how much of what my clients carried lived in their bodies, not just their thoughts. In 2006 I became a Certified Integrative Body Psychotherapist. Put together, that's the way I actually work: mind and body, talked-through and felt-through, not one or the other.

I work in English and in Spanish. I see individuals, couples, and groups, and my practice has always been LGBTQ+ affirming. I draw from a wide range of approaches — Cognitive Behavioral, Existential, Gestalt, Humanistic, Interpersonal, Mindfulness-Based, Psychodynamic, Relational, Somatic, Transpersonal — because no two people I've ever sat with needed exactly the same thing from me.

Read Maya's full story in her VoyageLA interview (October 2026), and how yoga and meditation shaped her work in her LA Yoga Magazine profile.

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