Maya Attia
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Bio
Maya Attia is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist offering online therapy to neurodivergent adults and couples throughout California. Her practice centers on people exploring ethical non-monogamy (ENM), polyamory, kink and BDSM, and on autistic, ADHD, and AuDHD clients who are worn out from masking their way through every room.
Maya is autistic herself, and she does not work from behind a blank screen. Clients describe her as direct, unfiltered, and knowledgeable. Sex, kink, power exchange, non-monogamy, identity — the material most people edit before it leaves their mouth — is ordinary conversation in her sessions, and she takes what a client carries seriously without flinching at it.
"With the right person across from you, a space where you never have to translate yourself, things start to move."
She brings ten years of lived experience alongside intensive clinical training. Her work is anchored in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), and sex therapy, and spans trauma-informed care, kink-affirming practice, queer and gender-expansive affirming care, ENM-affirming practice, and neurodivergent-affirming approaches. For clients in BDSM, she treats the container itself — negotiated power, explicit consent, scripts, rituals — as a place where real healing can happen.
Alongside relationships and sexuality, Maya works with body image from a weight-inclusive, shame-free stance, aiming at body loyalty rather than body love, and with sexual and genital pain. Whether you are unmasking, opening a relationship, repairing after a rupture, or coming back to your own body, sessions are built to send you home with structures and practical tools rather than insight alone.
Therapeutic Approach
- Direct, unfiltered conversation about sex, kink, power exchange, non-monogamy, and identity
- A therapist who shows up as a whole person rather than a blank screen, with ten years of lived experience behind the clinical work
- Anchored in Emotionally Focused Therapy, Internal Family Systems, and sex therapy, with trauma-informed care throughout
- Neurodivergent-affirming work on unmasking, built for autistic, ADHD, and AuDHD adults and couples
- Practical structures to take away — negotiated agreements, ways to repair after a rupture, language for shame
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Rates
Maya is an out-of-network provider and does not bill insurance directly. If your plan has out-of-network benefits, she can provide a superbill after each session to submit for possible reimbursement. Payment is due at the time of service, and a Good Faith Estimate is available in writing under the No Surprises Act. A free consultation is offered before booking. Cancellations with at least 48 hours' notice are not charged.
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