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Alejandro Maya

Alejandro Maya

(he/him)

LMFT
21 years of experience
Virtual

Experienced Marriage and Family and EMDRIA EMDR certified therapist with a demonstrated history of working in the mental health industry. Having worked with clients in therapy for more than 20 years has offered me an understanding of the significant resilience and capacity for healing we have. The goal of my practice is to support people organize those capacities so they can find resolution and adaptation more efficiently.

What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?

In your first session, you can expect to be introduced to therapy and your therapist. The pace to advance on your therapy work will be guided by your level of comfort and the clarity of the goals. You will build your therapy resources at your pace and in a collaborative manner with the therapist.

Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.

My therapy is collaborative, person-centered and guided by goals that attend to the roots of your challenges.

Describe the client(s) you are best positioned to serve.

Skilled in EMDR, cognitive processing, somatic, narrative and expressive arts therapies. Strong healthcare services professional with a master degree on holistic counseling psychology from John F. Kennedy University, and a graduate degree on expressive arts therapy from San Diego University for Integrative Studies.

About Alejandro Maya

Licensed in

Appointments

Fully booked

My treatment methods

EMDR

Interventions that help resolve the confusion between healthy emotions and unhealthy ones that become psychological defenses.

Cognitive Processing (CPT)

Interventions that provide tools to organize one’s efforts to become more well integrated and better functioning human beings.

Narrative

Interventions to efficiently support one's efforts to safely and healthily well-adapt difficult negative self-cognitions.

Somatic

Interventions to guide activated fight-flight and/or freeze responses into deactivation and processing.

Polyvagal Therapy

Exercises to practice tracking one’s Polyvagal profile as a coping resource for deactivation when triggered.