Ready to stop translating yourself to be understood?

Maya Attia, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist for neurodivergent adults and couples in California (LMFT #139693)

You are not the problem.

You remember a time when being yourself didn't feel like a performance. When wanting what you wanted didn't come with shame. When your relationships didn't run on the same circular arguments. Those days feel like a distant memory. Don't you wish you had the tools to actually change that?

You've come to the right place.

Hi, I'm Maya. I work with neurodivergent adults and couples who have everything it takes to live authentically in their bodies, relationships, and sexuality, and just need a space to actually do it. My clients walk in articulate, self aware, and exhausted from years of doing the inner work alone. They walk out with practical tools, real frameworks, and a relationship to themselves that finally feels like home.

Most therapy for neurodivergent adults, kink, ENM, and sex positive clients is either too clinical, too cautious, or too vague to actually help. People leave feeling pathologized, talked around, or stuck in insight without action. I know your life is specific, so our work is too. Every framework we build is yours.

First, we look beneath the surface patterns: what's actually driving the shutdowns, the loops, the shame. Then we build practical tools you can use in real time. Communication strategies. Repair plans. Frameworks for the conversations that have always felt impossible. Through our work, you'll move through your relationships, your body, and your identity with more clarity, more confidence, and more freedom than when you started.

I am dedicated to helping people live in alignment with who they actually are.

My training spans trauma informed care, kink affirming therapy, ENM affirming practice, and neurodivergent affirming approaches, anchored in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), and sex therapy. But training is only part of the picture. I've spent years working with clients who are queer, neurodivergent, autistic, ADHD, trans, polyamorous, or living at the intersection of several. This is the work I do every week. Together, this means I bring real clinical expertise to the patterns, traumas, and dynamics that have kept you stuck.

But more than that, you want to know you're working with someone who actually gets what it means to be neurodivergent, kinky, polyamorous, or all three in a world that often doesn't make room for you. Right?

I get it because I've been living in these communities for ten years. I know what it feels like to spend half a therapy session explaining your relationship structure instead of getting help. I know the exhaustion of translating yourself to be understood. So when we work together, you won't just get a trained therapist. You'll get someone who already speaks the language.

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Experience and Education

Degrees

Masters of Arts in Integral Counseling Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies 2020
Bachelors of Arts in Music Performance, University of Massachusetts, Boston 2012

Licensure

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, California (LMFT #139693), 2022

Specialized Training and Certifications

Sex Therapy

Sex Therapy Training (ASECT approved) at Modern Sex Therapy Institutes (MSTI)
Clash of the Sex Drives: Helping Couples Resolve Mismatched Desire (Stephanie Buehler)
Understanding and Treating Sexual/Genital Pain, MSTI Carolin Klein, PhD
Somatic Sex Therapy, MSTI Holly Richmond, PhD, LMFT, CST

ENM, Polyamory and Alternative Relationships

Polyunsure After Polysecure, The Affirmative Couch

BDSM and Stigma, MSTI Luna Matatas

Gender Identity and Sexuality

Gender Dysphoria to Gender Euphoria, The Affirmative Couch
Clinical Approaches to Centering Trans Sexual Pleasure, The Affirmative Couch
Suicide Prevention in LGBTQIA+ Clients, The Affirmative Couch

Neurodivergence

Assessment of Adult ADHD for Master's Level Therapists, Chicago School of Psychology
Assessment Course ADHD & Autism, Neuropebble, Jamie Roberts
Sex on the Spectrum: Navigating relationships, dating..With Autism, MSTI Suzannah Weiss, CSE

Therapeutic Use of Psychedelics:

HIGH IMPACT: An Exploration of Psychedelics in Research and Society For Sex Therapists & Educators
Navigating Psychedelics For Clinicians and Wellness Practitioners, Psychedelics Today

EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy)

EFCT Externship
EFIT Externship
IFS (Internal Family Systems): Development, Application and Transformational Model