Talk with Maya Therapy
Maya Attia, LMFT #139693
Online therapy for neurodivergent adults and couples throughout California
You've masked your entire life
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 rewrite your history
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Work with your capacity and reduce burn out
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Stop masking in the spaces where it's safe
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Build relationships and a daily life that work for your brain
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Get real tools for RSD, sensory overwhelm, and executive function
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Feel understood by your therapist from the first session
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.
Most therapy hands you coping skills. We start learning about how your brain actually works
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.
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.
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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