Talk with Maya Therapy
Maya Attia, LMFT #139693
Online therapy for neurodivergent adults and couples throughout California
You learned to pass as neurotypical
You got diagnosed late, or you're circling the realization right now, and suddenly your whole life is rearranging itself in front of you.
You made it into your thirties, your forties, before anyone said the word autistic or neurodivergent out loud. Maybe every therapist you saw missed it. Maybe you found it yourself at 2am, reading a stranger's thread and recognizing your entire life in it. However you got here, you're holding a diagnosis nobody handed you a manual for. You're rereading every year of your life through a lens that finally fits. And you're grieving the person who tried so hard, for so long, without ever knowing why it cost this much.
You don't want to keep living at this cost. Something has to change. Not who you are, but how much of yourself you've had to hide to get through the day.
You're ready to
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Make sense of the diagnosis and reread your history without shame
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Understand your actual capacity instead of overshooting it and crashing into burnout
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Stop masking in the spaces where it's finally safe to
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Build relationships and a daily life that work with your brain, not against it
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Get real tools for RSD, sensory overwhelm, and executive function that fit how you actually work
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Feel understood by your therapist from the first session, without translating a thing
HOW IT WORKS
It's possible to live with your brain instead of against it, without performing a version of you that was never real.
We start from the assumption your brain was never the problem. It just landed in a world that wasn't built for it. So instead of handing you generic coping skills, we get underneath: what's actually you, what was survival, and what masking has been costing you all this time.
Using IFS, EFT, and trauma informed care, we work with the parts of you that learned to perform safety, the ones still bracing for rejection, the ones holding the exhaustion. We make room for the version of you underneath all that performing, and we build tools that fit your nervous system instead of fighting it. You don't have to explain what masking is.
You don't have to translate RSD or executive dysfunction into terms a therapist will accept. We skip all of that and get to the actual work.
Most therapy hands you coping skills. We start with the part of you that's too burned out to use them.
You will leave each session with something real to use before the next one: language for what you're feeling, a tool for a hard moment, a small shift you can actually try.
Neurodivergent therapy with me means:
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Real tools
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No explaining
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Unmasking on purpose
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Working with your brain
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Being believed the first time
And it doesn't mean:
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Generic self care
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Translating yourself
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Masking to be understood
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Being told to try harder
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Pushing against your own wiring
Neurodivergent and also navigating Ethical Non Monogamy (ENM), kink, or polyamory?
That intersection is core to what I do. You don't have to pick which part of yourself to bring.
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There's a version of you that never needed fixing.