About MAIDA
Maida Ferraes is a California licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with seven years of counseling experience. She works with people coping with stress and anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and family concerns, addiction, ADHD, trauma, sleep problems, and career or life transitions.
Background and approach
Her approach is warm and straightforward. Sessions focus on clear goals and practical steps people can try between meetings.
She combines listening with tools clients can use right away to manage symptoms and improve routines. Maida draws on client-centered methods to make sure each person feels heard.
She also uses cognitive behavioral strategies to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Dialectical behavior therapy skills and mindfulness practices are woven in when emotional regulation or distress tolerance is needed.
Clients may meet by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Maida has experience in both individual and group settings, and she has worked in residential and outpatient programs as well as offices.
Sessions can be adapted for coaching-style check-ins or longer therapeutic work depending on needs. She speaks English and Spanish and supports a wide range of concerns including intimacy issues, parenting stress, compassion fatigue, bipolar mood challenges, and aging-related or caregiver stress.
People new to therapy will find a calm, patient clinician who emphasizes steady progress and practical coping skills.
How Maida’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's unique needs, helping people feel understood and guiding conversations so they can set their own goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks down how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and teaches specific steps to change unhelpful patterns for issues like anxiety or insomnia. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers practical skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication in stressful moments.Finding the right fit is part of the work. Maida will collaborate with each person to choose strategies that match their goals, needs, and comfort with different approaches. Together they may try a mix of approaches and adjust the plan based on what helps in real life.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversation time, phone can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, chat works for quick check-ins, and messaging supports brief coaching or ongoing check-ins between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules while using the methods described above.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish