About Maya
Maya Bates is a licensed mental health counselor in Indiana who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She brings seven years of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. She listens first and shapes sessions around each person's needs.
Conversations aim to make sense of what’s happening now and to find workable ways to reduce distress. Maya uses an empathetic, client-centered style that keeps the person’s priorities in focus.
Background and approach
Her work includes support for depression, grief, relationship strain, and addiction concerns such as drug and alcohol use. She also helps people cope with family issues, codependency, and major life changes like divorce and separation. Trauma and personality-related concerns are part of her practice too.
Maya uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. She pairs that with solution-focused techniques to set small goals and motivational interviewing when people want to change addictive patterns. Sessions are conversational and aim to leave people with clear ideas to try between meetings.
Maya intends to create a nonjudgmental space where clients can be honest about their feelings and work toward meaningful change.
Approaches that translate to online care
Maya often blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Client-centered Therapy focuses on listening, acceptance, and following the person's goals to build trust and clarity. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change patterns.She also uses Motivational Interviewing when people are weighing change. That approach helps clients clarify their reasons for change and build internal motivation rather than pushing a specific plan. Together these methods help with anxiety, addiction concerns, grief, and relationship stress in a collaborative way.
Finding the right fit is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then suggest an approach or a mix of approaches. This collaboration helps shape a plan that feels useful and realistic for the client's life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper dialogue, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging supports quick check-ins and brief reflections between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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