We care for individuals, couples, teens, and families throughout California — online or in person at our two Bay Area offices and two Los Angeles–area offices.
Wherever you begin, our team offers thoughtful, research‑grounded therapy that helps you make sense of your patterns and move toward a more connected, grounded life.
Work with us
Investment Starts at $300 per 50-minute session.
You have big goals, a powerful mind, and a drive that’s taken you far, but it may have also come with overthinking, perfectionism, people-pleasing, or a pressure to hold everything together alone. Here, we look at how your ambition and your nervous system can work with each other instead of constantly negotiating for control.
Using a blend of talk therapy, EMDR, and nervous-system work, we explore why certain stressors hit so hard, why old relational patterns resurface, and why success doesn’t always translate to internal steadiness.
As you build clarity and emotional range, your goals start to feel more sustainable and your choices more aligned.
This work is for people who want depth, honesty, and a life where their mind, drive, and wellbeing finally move in the same direction.
Clients wanting depth, insight, and lasting change, not surface-level fixes
Those navigating transitions, grief, anxiety, or emotional overwhelm
High performers seeking a life that feels connected, not just accomplished
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Where the story you’ve lived meets the one you’re ready to write
Individual therapy offers a warm, engaged space to explore what’s working in your life, what isn’t, and what’s asking to shift. Together, we make sense of your internal world so you can move through the outer one with more clarity and steadiness.
Individual Therapy
Investment Starts at $300 per 50-minute session.
Anxiety and OCD have a way of hijacking your days, like a whisper that becomes a shout, a worry that becomes a ritual, or a feeling that something terrible will happen unless you outsmart your own mind. We don’t treat those experiences as flaws; we see them as the nervous system trying a little too hard to protect you.
In therapy, we use tools like CBT, ACT, ERP, EMDR, and nervous-system work to gently interrupt the fear loops and help your brain recalibrate. But just as importantly, we help you understand why your mind latched onto these patterns in the first place: the old instincts, the perfectionistic streak, the part of you that never feels “quite safe enough.”
As we loosen fear’s grip, you’ll begin to reclaim space in your body, your relationships, and your day-to-day life.
Not a life without fear, but a life where fear no longer gets the final say.
Clients wanting science-backed tools paired with warm, steady support
Those navigating avoidance, panic, phobias, or decision paralysis
People stuck in worry loops, intrusive thoughts, or compulsive patterns
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A steadier mind, one brave moment at a time
Anxiety and OCD can feel relentless — the spirals, the rituals, the constant scanning for what might go wrong. Therapy offers a grounded, compassionate space to understand what’s driving these cycles and learn how to interrupt them with clarity and confidence.
Anxiety & OCD Treatment
Investment Starts at $300 per 50-minute session.
Therapy for kids and teens is where big feelings finally have a place to land. We help young people make sense of the emotions that feel too tangled, too loud, or too confusing to name, using developmentally informed, evidence-based approaches like CBT, ACT, EMDR (when appropriate), mindfulness, and parent-guided support. These aren’t one-size-fits-all tools; they’re practices that meet their nervous systems exactly where they are.
We look beneath the behavior to the heart of what’s really going on: the fears they hide, the sensitivities they protect, the stories they’ve carried alone. As they learn new ways to express themselves, parents gain clarity and relief, finally understanding how to support growth without bracing for the next meltdown.
Over time, families notice more connection, fewer explosions, and a sense of “Okay, we can do this.”
This work is about helping young humans feel safe, understood, and more themselves.
Young people who benefit from a warm, attuned clinician who listens deeply
Families needing support with communication, boundaries, or transitions
Kids and teens navigating anxiety, emotional overwhelm, or social stress
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Support for the feelings they don’t have words for yet
Therapy for kids and teens offers a steady, compassionate space to sort through big feelings, tricky transitions, and the pressures that often feel too big to name. We help young people understand what’s happening inside them, and we help parents understand how to support that growth with confidence.
Therapy for Teens & Children
- Therapy Client
I sought Minds Matter’s help because I had a hunch that revisiting a childhood bullying experience was connected in ways that I could feel, observe in my behavior, but not describe in words. I’m grateful for this experience because I’ve found the clarity and agency I was looking for.
"I can move through the most intense days with a calmness that I didn’t have before."
- Therapy Client
I went from believing that there was only one narrow definition of success in my career to embracing the idea that there are several different paths ahead of me that are all equally rewarding and fulfilling. I'm so much better at regulating and controlling depressive or anxious thoughts.
"EMDR was hugely beneficial for me to work through some trauma and distress I felt related to my work"
- Therapy Client
She taught me how to distinguish between anxious thoughts and other thoughts. I can make small talk with people without feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, and I often even enjoy those conversations now.
"Maira's willingness to go at my pace was a game-changer for me, especially in our first few months of working together."
Investment Starts at $300 per 50-minute session.
Relationships have their own nervous systems: patterns you slip into without meaning to, roles you learned early, protective moves that make perfect sense and still cause harm.
We use approaches like EFT, Gottman Method, RLT, and systems-focused work to help you understand what drives those moments and how to shift them with intention.
As communication softens and defenses relax, couples and families often rediscover a steadier rhythm: clearer boundaries, more repair, and a kind of connection that feels sturdy rather than fragile.
Partners wanting communication that feels honest without being volatile
Families navigating transitions, ruptures, or emotional reactivity
Couples repeating the same argument in new disguises
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The space between you deserves care, too
Relationships often expose the dynamics we’ve been managing quietly for years: the shutdowns, the escalations, the misfires in communication that leave everyone feeling misunderstood. Therapy offers a grounded space to slow down the cycle and understand what each person is truly protecting or longing for beneath the conflict.
Therapy for Couples & Families
Investment Starts at $300 per 50-minute session.
ADHD and neurodivergence don’t just shape how you think — they shape how you move through the world: how you feel time, how you sense urgency, how quickly your emotions shift, how long your ideas linger. In therapy, we get curious about these patterns instead of wrestling them into someone else’s version of “organized” or “on track.”
Together, we explore the rhythms of your mind, the fast starts, the sudden stops, the sparks of creativity, the crashes of overwhelm, and what each of those moments is trying to communicate. Using CBT, ACT, EMDR, and nervous-system work, we help you build systems that honor your wiring and soften the shame you’ve collected along the way.
Anyone wanting shame-free, brain-based tools that actually work
High achievers whose drive outpaces their executive functioning
Adults or teens struggling with organization, follow-through, or emotional intensity
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Your mind has its own rhythm. Let’s build a life that feels aligned
Living with ADHD or a neurodivergent mind often means moving between brilliance and burnout, hyperfocus and overwhelm, good intentions and systems that simply don’t match how your brain works. In therapy, we don’t try to “correct” these patterns ,we help you understand them, harness them, and build a life that supports your mind instead of fighting it.
ADHD & Neurodivergence Support
Investment Starts at $300 per 50-minute session
Psychological testing offers something most people rarely receive: a clear, compassionate explanation for the patterns they’ve been trying to decode on their own. If you or a family member are wrestling with attention lapses, overwhelm that comes out of nowhere, performance swings, or the sense that your strengths are carrying you farther than your coping can, testing helps make sense of these patterns.
We'll look closely at how your mind processes information, regulates emotion, holds focus, remembers details, and responds under pressure.
This is especially helpful if you’re wondering about ADHD, executive functioning challenges, giftedness or twice-exceptionality, learning differences like dyslexia, or anxiety and mood patterns that complicate daily life.
Families or individuals wanting clear recommendations they can act on
High achievers whose strengths mask underlying challenges
Adults, teens, or children seeking clarity around ADHD, learning differences, or mood concerns
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The goal isn't a label. it's a map
Psychological Testing & ADHD Assessments
Psychological testing isn’t about labeling you, it’s about understanding the full story behind your symptoms, strengths, and struggles. Our assessments offer a deep, nuanced look at how your mind processes information, manages emotion, and responds to the world, so you can finally make sense of what’s been confusing or overwhelming.
