“Before working with Maia, I would replay interactions with good friends for days after and agonize about what others thought about me. Now, I feel free and confident.”

“Maia has shown me how to navigate through some really tough obstacles. I had past experiences with therapists before I started working with Maia, not one of them gave me “a plan of action” during our sessions to implement when the session was over. They did a lot of listening without giving me substantial advice. My disappointing search for the right therapist left me with the feeling he or she didn’t exist. When I leave Maia’s office, I have clear direction and the tools to deal with my life challenges.

Maia is very professional and clear with every aspect regarding her services without coming across as clinical or non caring. She maintains the client/therapist relationship without giving the feeling she’s only there to get paid. I always get the feeling she truly cares about my personal growth and success.

I have experienced Leaps and bounds of growth and self exploration! As I imagine a coach’s pep talk before a game, Maia has given me the strategies and encouragement to monumentally improve my ability and confidence on the playing field of life. I am thankful for her support in encouraging me to believe in myself and skillfully guiding me to search for the answers and solutions to use with dealing with situations that became unmanageable.”

“I wanted someone who would not let me get away with just telling the same stories over and over; someone who would really listen, not just to what I was saying, but what was going unsaid; someone who could make connections and see trends in my behaviors that I was blind to. So, without knowing anything about her, my greatest hesitation was that she would be the kind of therapist who sits back and just lets the client talk for the whole session. I’m pleased to say she was exactly the kind of therapist I wanted, hoped for and needed.

Working with Maia means I’m going to be held accountable for my actions, thoughts and choices. Maia isn’t afraid to question a statement I make, to help me parse the truth from the fiction of whatever “story” I’m sharing with her. She warmly but firmly encourages me to pause in order to really listen to myself and to feel the tightness or tension in my body. With Maia, I feel as much supported to be right where I am as I do nudged to keep growing. Each session is different, but the understanding that I hold emotions in my body that have been there for years and that that locked energy can hold me back is the foundation of the process of working with Maia.

I now have an arsenal of tools that I can use whenever I’m feeling stressed or scared or panicky. I hear Maia’s voice reminding me that “no one ever died from a panic attack,” or “excitement and fear register the same way in the body,” and “these are just big emotions and I’ve already survived them.” All these gifts Maia has given me, among many others, help me in the times between our sessions.”

“I am an artist and have done a considerable amount of psychological work in my life, but found myself in a situation that confused me and left me unable to handle. I needed support.

I was able to have intense and in-depth sessions with Maia Newman. She was so helpful and insightful that my log jam broke up and I was on my way down river with a fresh outlook. I found Maia to be very intelligent, honest, direct and generous and willing to offer intense sessions to help with an immediate problem.

This offer makes going to a therapist when you need one very inviting. I highly recommend Maia to anyone who is stuck and needs help getting an aerial view of the problem. She is terrific.”

“My biggest takeaway from working with Maia was how to affect the changes in my life I wanted to have. My husband and I had been drifting apart for a while. Eventually I had an affair that devastated me, and ultimately us. We didn’t know how to turn the corner and find one another again.  I was consumed with self-hatred, and in my loneliness and confusion, I found myself doing some extremely destructive and dangerous things that were totally addictive; I couldn’t stop.  I didn’t know where to turn, so I called Maia.

When I first met Maia I was lost. I felt so sad and alone even though I was surrounded by my loving family and friends. Maia not only taught me how to identify and regulate my emotions, she gave me concrete tools to do so. I stopped the addictive behavior and together paved a path to transition to where I am now.

Now I feel genuine happiness and connectivity with the people in my life. I have changed myself…and I found myself at the same time. I feel like the luckiest person in the world when I see that change reflected back at me.”

“Maia has a special ability to cut through my tangents and uncertainty with an insightful question or a careful challenge. When I think back over my sessions with Maia and the positive changes in my life that I can directly or indirectly ascribe to her influence, it’s kind of sublime: curbing my drinking, how I see myself and take care of myself, and how I have been able to just get at the root of things while making practical improvements.

I anticipate every meeting with Maia - And that is not because I know what will be discussed (relationships, usually) or how I will feel afterward (motivated, consistently). But because no matter how I feel or what is going on in my life, something unexpected happens. Sometimes something about me is discovered, or something about me is improved, or some practical reminder is made that refreshes my perspective, and I can see myself (and others) with more understanding and empathy.

As a listener, Maia is relaxed and open, focused and attentive, and her ability to recall details from many months ago often surprises me. What this means is my time with Maia moves positively forward and does not stagnate. Time spent with Maia is truly my time, and it is treated and respected as being valuable.”

“I was nervous, but it turned out to be a great experience.
When we started with Maia we enjoyed our relationship and time spent together, but there were issues we faced.  Sometimes when we disagreed, that would escalate to an argument but not reach a conclusion.  We each harbored resentments that we didn’t feel comfortable sharing or had tried unsuccessfully to resolve. No relationship is perfect.

Enter Maia, who is fantastic!  She brings a warm energy to the room and makes therapy a very comfortable and safe place. She encouraged us not just to speak openly and from the heart, but to listen intently.  We quickly got the root of our issues and also established clear guidelines to move forward with key challenging issues. We’ve become better communicators. She taught us basic, easy to replicate techniques that help us to listen, connect and better understand one another.  I’d say we are happier and enjoy greater intimacy.  Most of all we know we can always go back, and have a few times at key points in our relationship ie. the birth of a new child.

One would think that therapy is only for people who have a broken marriage or are about to split up, but in truth, the earlier you establish a practice of working with a counselor either regularly or occasionally, the better the result.  Thank you Maia for teaching us to listen and talk to one another, for reminding me the importance of compassion and for helping to make things work for us.”

“Without Maia’s help, we would keep having the same fights, over and over again. We had been married 8 years, had just purchased our first home, and our daughter was a year and a half old. I had gone back to work in January and we were having a difficult time figuring out how to hold down two full time jobs, juggle all of the responsibilities of a baby with no family or help in the area, and maintain an aging home that needed a lot of work. Everyday stressors were starting to feel overwhelming and the ‘piling on’ effect started weighing on us. We had been in some couples counseling prior and it didn’t really work for us.  We were skeptical that anyone could help us sort our troubles out.

Working with Maia has been a pleasure.  We always have takeaways and tools to use when we encounter issues in our daily lives such as a talking stick, chore wheel, the concept of “kinging”, identifying our fight cycle, and focusing on restoring the flow of love have been instrumental in reducing the daily stress and bringing the joy back to our lives and our home.

It is possible that the constant stress and bickering prior to working with Maia would have continued to erode the love we have for each other.  Instead of being hopeless, we are hopeful and looking forward to our future.

Thank you, Maia, for giving us tools to help eliminate some of the stress points in our lives and to start focusing on where we can derive pleasure.  Thank you for helping us see how deeply ingrained some patterns are in our lives and that responses and reactions to stressful situations may have more to do with patterned behaviors and old wounds and less to do with current triggers.”

“My wife and I have not had much success with previous couples therapy. I was raised in some form of therapy and recovery for more than 20 years prior to meeting Maia. My wife and I continued to struggle with repeating fight patterns and made little progress throughout the years on our usual impasses. I was skeptical of being able to find someone who met both our needs. Within minutes of engaging with Maia I felt like we were in safe knowledgeable hands and the progress was immediate from the first session.

From day one, Maia was able to get a firm grasp of our situation and didn’t waste time before giving us a critical set of tools which were relevant to us and our specific needs. She is fast, respectful, and efficient while being thoughtful and taking the time to fully understand.

My overall daily thought process is directly impacted with new insights and capability on making choices. Maia has helped me to understand and listen to my body when I get upset and practice separating the reaction from the reality while leaving room for other reactions and realities.

Specific to our situation she’s helped us realize that the enemy wasn’t each other but how we chose to fight and what happens when we’re triggered. Fight cycles are definitely shorter and we’re both usually focused on restoring love instead of engaging in a fight. Maia has helped us relax and accept who we are as individuals, who we are together, and helped us see the humor and humanity in many of our situations. I feel really blessed and fortunate to have discovered Maia when we did, and thankful she gave us the time slot.”

“Maia helped me to realize that being single and happy is better than being coupled and miserable. I contacted Maia at the suggestion of a friend who was worried about me. While I was doing really well professionally, I was living with my boyfriend of five years and he wouldn’t make a commitment. He drank too much, was more flirtatious with other women than I was comfortable with, and I just didn’t trust him. But honestly, he was a step-up from my past boyfriends, so I was really attached to him. But I felt angry and resentful because he really wasn’t who I wanted him to be. I wasn’t happy at all but I couldn’t leave the relationship. 



Maia helped me to see that there were still some things from my past that were impacting me (that I’d thought I’d dealt with!). I learned that while I felt good about myself at work, I really didn’t believe in myself in some key ways. Maia didn’t always say things I wanted to hear, but she definitely said what I needed to hear. I could always tell that she really cared about me and that she was rooting for a better life for me. 


After working with Maia I was able to be honest with myself that I was “focusing on the potential” of our relationship rather than admitting the truth to myself about how unhappy I really was. Maia helped me to see how I had lost myself. I started working even harder on my own goals and spending time with my friends again. Eventually I faced my fears about being single and gathered the courage to end the relationship. 

Thank you, Maia, for helping me believe in myself again.”

“Before working with Maia, I was paralyzed with the fear that, if I chose to pursue my lifelong dream, I would fail. I felt like a failure, and I doubted whether I was strong enough mentally, physically, or emotionally to endure the challenge ahead. That same fear plagued my relationship as well, and I knew I needed a way to overcome my fears to move ahead with my life.

Working with Maia felt like working with a dedicated coach. Maia is a straight shooter: she coaches you to realize the reality of your situation, the choices that are in front of you, and how to discern the right one. Most importantly, she keeps you accountable to that choice, enabling change in your life.

Maia, above all others, kept me accountable to pursuing my life-long dream of a career in special operations. Period. In doing so, she helped me to let go, in my career and in my relationship, which gave me freedom from fear. Her EFT tapping method is now one of the most important tools in my kit, to perform in all aspects of my life.

I initially hesitated because I didn’t believe in therapy, since mental toughness is something in which I pride myself. But, I realized that therapy is just like having a coach; and everyone needs a coach. If I hadn’t worked with Maia, I would’ve let my life-long dream slip through my fingers.

I thank Maia for keeping me accountable, and giving me the last push I needed to pursue my life-long dream. I thank her for giving me the tools to deal with a lack of confidence and with fear.”

“Before I started working with Maia I felt very alone. I started sessions with her because I wanted a life partner and yet I couldn’t seem to keep a boyfriend for any length of time. I knew I needed help, not finding a man, but understanding who I was and why I kept making the choices I was making.
Well, I’m now happily married and celebrating my 10th wedding anniversary! I credit my work with Maia for transforming me from someone who constantly made dangerous choices about men into someone who fell in love with a loving, supportive, kind man who in an equal partner in every way. Maia recently guided me through the process of envisioning how I could get un-stuck from my day-job and become self-employed. I had been feeling trapped and I wasn’t able to see the way forward at all. With Maia’s help I came up with a plan. Less than a year later I became self-employed and am now doing work that I love!

Thank you, Maia for unconditionally supporting me, for never judging me, for pushing me just enough and knowing when to just listen, for being clear and direct about your fees, for making me feel safe, and for giving me the tools I need to manage my life in a healthy, fulfilling way.”