About MAIDA
MAIDA FERRAES is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California with seven years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, addiction, mood disorders, and relationship or parenting challenges. She also supports concerns like ADHD, sleep problems, intimacy issues, and career stress.
MAIDA offers services in English and Spanish. Her approach is practical and down-to-earth. Sessions typically focus on what is happening now and concrete steps a person can take to feel better.
How MAIDA works
She draws on tools from cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and dialectical behavior ideas to help people build skills and change patterns. MAIDA has worked in a variety of settings, including outpatient and residential programs, and has experience leading both individual and group work. That background informs how she structures sessions and coaches people through setbacks.
She pays attention to how life events, caregiving roles, and aging or neurodiversity can affect daily functioning. In meetings she aims to be compassionate, energetic, and straightforward. People can expect a calm presence and practical suggestions alongside empathetic listening.
MAIDA emphasizes collaboration and tailors methods to each person’s goals and pace. To begin she asks about the immediate concerns and priorities, then helps map reasonable steps to reach those goals. Her work blends short-term strategies for symptom relief with longer-term skill building to support lasting change.
MAIDA lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What MAIDA works with
The areas below are the ones MAIDA selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online sessions
Client-centered work focuses on listening and responding to each person's needs. It helps people feel heard and guides the pace and topics of sessions to match what matters most to them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. In online sessions it is used to identify unhelpful patterns and practice small, concrete changes to reduce anxiety, depression, or sleep problems.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships. Online DBT-style work often includes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and mindfulness practice for day-to-day use.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work with each person to figure out which methods fit their goals and preferences. That choice is collaborative and can change as needs evolve.
Online therapy supports flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people send notes between sessions or use written check-ins when that format fits better. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep momentum between meetings.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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