Couples & Family
The most important relationship you will ever have is the one with yourself.
Approach
Communication that actually changes things.
Every relationship runs into conflict, distance, or miscommunication at some point — what matters is whether a couple or family has the tools to move through it together. Maya works with couples and families to identify the patterns that keep conflict escalating, and to build new patterns of listening, speaking, and repairing that hold up under real pressure, not just in the therapy room.
What This Work Helps With
Where couples and families begin.
- Communication breakdowns and recurring arguments
- Intimacy and connection that has grown distant
- Trust repair after a rupture
- Codependency and unhealthy relational patterns
- Life transitions that put strain on a partnership or family
- Grief, loss, and change within a family system
Grounded In
The Six Pillars, applied to relationships.
Connection is the second of Maya's Six Pillars of Wellbeing — building secure, authentic relationships with others and with yourself. Sessions often draw on Relational, Interpersonal, and Humanistic modalities to help couples and families rebuild trust from the inside out.
Areas of Focus
Where relationship work often begins.
Relationship Issues
Relationship issues are one of the three areas Maya works with most — the recurring arguments, the slow drift toward distance, the sense that you're speaking two different languages. As a marriage and family therapist in California, Maya helps couples name what's actually happening beneath the conflict, and build new ways of listening and repairing that hold up outside the therapy room.
Couples Therapy Across California
Many couples across Southern California choose this practice — drawn to a process that treats both partners as equally responsible for change. Sessions are held by secure telehealth video, so couples can meet from wherever they split their time.
Couples Counseling
Couples counseling with Maya isn't about assigning blame — it's about learning the specific patterns that keep a particular relationship stuck, and practicing new ones together, in the room, until they start to feel natural.
Attachment Styles & Trust Repair
Attachment style — anxious, avoidant, or secure — shapes how each partner reacts under stress, and why the same argument tends to repeat. Research from the Gottman Institute has found that couples who successfully rebuild trust after conflict rely on specific, learnable repair attempts made in the moment, not just a single big conversation. Maya helps couples recognize their attachment patterns and practice repair in real time, so trust rebuilds through consistent small moments. Read more on understanding your attachment style and rebuilding trust after infidelity.
LGBTQ+-Affirming Care
Maya's relationship work is LGBTQ+ affirming, supporting couples navigating identity, family, and partnership in ways that feel authentic to who they actually are.
Grief & Life Transitions
Loss and major life transitions — a move, a birth, a death, a divorce — put real strain on family systems. Maya helps families and couples navigate these shifts without losing each other in the process.
In Their Words
"Choosing a therapist is not easy. Both my husband and I look forward to meeting with her every single week and wish we had found her sooner. We find her methods and process are exactly what we need. I promise you will not be disappointed in going to Maya!"
— ZJ, Venice, CA
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