Maya has studied with Dr. Anodea Judith, world renowned teacher and somatic therapist, and other Chakra Energy healers. Through Maya’s trainings in many traditional healing methods with subtle energy, and the scientific study of the nervous system and somatic therapies, she works from a place of integrating these fields to heal the wounds of trauma. Maya’s work is to achieve the healing of the human soul, touching deep parts of yourself to integrate them more fully in your life, wakening the life force and creating your life on purpose. Awakening self-awareness and opening to new perspectives creates profound potential for transformation. Through working with unblocking the unconscious conditioning that has limited us, we can move creatively into our full potential. Her healing practice is integrating body, mind & spirit with the intention to help you feel grounded, whole, and more aligned with your authentic self.
Maya understands that there is more than just energy that centers in the body. The chakras describe the deep architecture of the soul. As such they provide a profound template for healing and integrating mind, body, and spirit. Using bioenergetics techniques for moving energy blockages through the body, and psychological techniques for addressing traumas and issues, somatic therapy takes you deep into your own core, freeing up energies that may have been blocked for decades. With Maya you will get to the core, mend the wounds, re-negotiate the trauma (and if one so desires balance the chakras) and free yourself from the old patterns that keep us stuck in suffering. It is through the integration of body, mind and soul that we heal.
DARe
Maya is currently working to become the first certified Dynamic Attachment Re-Patterning Experience (DARe) provider in New Mexico by the beginning of 2020, which involves extensive personal and professional training in the DARe model, developed by Diane Poole Heller. Diane’s vision and creation of DARe embraces a set of powerful strategies, which address developmental and relational trauma. DARe is a body/mind based therapy techniques, Attachment Theory, and a variety of spiritual practices and perspectives which can be used in tandem to effectively address relational ruptures in our clients, as well as in their developmental histories. Adult relationships offer the most powerful opportunity to resolve old insecure patterns based on adaptations that occur originally related to lack of safety, trust, consistency or protection to name just a few possible bonding deficits. Working with Maya in this modality you can re-pattern your attachment system and discover healthy relationships. The transformational impact of DARe is that we address developmental wounds both within our attachment system as well as within our nervous system, so it is a very bottom up paradigm of interventions (meaning, body, then mind).
SENSORIMOTOR PSYCHOTHERAPY: "Only one therapy I know of reaches as deeply into the body as it does into the mind, and by reaching for both, touches the soul ." — Ron Kurtz, Founder of the Hakomi Method
Maya is trained in Sensorimotor Psychotherpay Level I, which addresses trauma and trauma based issues. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy draws from somatic therapies, neuroscience, attachment theory, mindfulness and cognitive approaches, as well as from the Hakomi Method. Theoretically grounded in neuroscience and attachment research, the approach treats emotional and cognitive experiences that facilitates access to deep authentic experiences. The body is included to in the healing, both as a source for information and a gateway for intervention.
EMDR
Maya is trained in EMDR. EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences. Repeated studies show that by using EMDR therapy people can experience the benefits of psychotherapy that once took years to make a difference. It is widely assumed that severe emotional pain requires a long time to heal. EMDR therapy shows that the mind can in fact heal from psychological trauma much as the body recovers from physical trauma. When you cut your hand, your body works to close the wound. If a foreign object or repeated injury irritates the wound, it festers and causes pain. Once the block is removed, healing resumes. EMDR therapy demonstrates that a similar sequence of events occurs with mental processes. The brain’s information processing system naturally moves toward mental health. If the system is blocked or imbalanced by the impact of a disturbing event, the emotional wound festers and can cause intense suffering. Once the block is removed, healing resumes. Using the detailed protocols and procedures learned in EMDR therapy training sessions, clinicians help clients activate their natural healing processes.
COUPLES
Maya uses various therapeutic modalities for couples. Her intent in couples therapy is to heal old wounds between two people, create stronger bonds and emotional attachments, and foster healthy communication so that you can thrive individually, as a couple, and deepen the love between you.