About Maya
Maya Neal is a licensed marriage and family therapist with sixteen years of experience helping adults sort through life's challenges. She brings a warm, accepting presence and a goal-directed style to sessions. Maya listens carefully and helps people build practical skills for day-to-day life.
Her approach focuses on clear steps you can try between sessions. She blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness tools to reduce stress and improve coping.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize small, achievable changes that add up over time. Maya often works with people facing anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and relationship struggles. She also supports those dealing with parenting strain, caregiving stress, and life changes such as divorce or career transitions.
ADHD is listed among her focus areas and is addressed alongside attention to mood and daily functioning. In practice she helps people manage anger, body image concerns, low self-esteem, and sleep problems. She also offers support around adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, and blended family dynamics.
Her work includes attention to chronic illness, codependency, and commitment problems. Maya is licensed as an LMFT in South Carolina and Utah, and she offers sessions in English. She combines compassion with practical coaching to help clients pursue a clearer, more manageable path forward.
Therapeutic Approaches Delivered Online
Maya uses client-centered methods that place your perspective at the center of therapy. This approach means sessions start with your concerns and goals, and conversations shape the pace and focus of work together.She also incorporates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT to help identify unhelpful thinking and try concrete behavior changes. CBT is often useful for anxiety, mood concerns, sleep issues, and stress that interfere with daily routines.
Mindfulness techniques are used to develop present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity. These practices can help with emotional regulation, attention, and coping with difficult sensations or thoughts.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match methods to their needs, goals, and preferences, and may adjust strategies as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let sessions feel more like a face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging support brief check-ins or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy day and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Utah, South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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