Bay Area Open Minds

San Francisco Bay Area psychotherapists and psychotherapy students who affirm that sexual, relational and gender diversity are natural expressions of the human experience.

Mariya "Mary" Mykhaylova

 

Member profile details

Membership level
Licensed
First name
Mariya "Mary"
Last name
Mykhaylova
Profile photo
Accepting new clients?
Accepting new clients
Biographical Info
The people who come to me are curious to get to know themselves more deeply and want to bridge authenticity and connection in their relationships. A recurring theme in my work is the interplay between our relationship with ourselves and our relationships with others. I work with individuals, couples, and families using an integrative approach grounded in psychodynamic theory, attachment theory, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), the Gottman Method, mindfulness, and cognitive behavioral methods. Together, we can work toward both short-term and long-term change.

In individual therapy, we might explore how you've kept your emotional world zipped up in order to survive, succeed, caretake, or be loved—strategies that may have once helped, but now leave you depleted and disconnected. Our work can focus on showing up more authentically, clarifying your needs, setting healthy boundaries, and shifting recurring patterns.

As your couples or family therapist, I use an attachment-based and systemic lens to understand your relationship dynamics. I support clients in tracking and reshaping unhelpful patterns, increasing intimacy, navigating conflict, creating shared meaning, exploring intercultural or intergenerational differences, and communicating across polarization.
Professional Designation (Licensed)
  • LCSW
CA License Number
87694
Professional Website
Offers Medication Evaluation and Management
No
Location of Practice
  • San Francisco (in person)
  • Telehealth in CA
Gender Identity
  • Cisgender female
Pronouns
she/her/hers
Accessibility
  • Single stall/gender neutral restrooms
Member provides clinical supervision/consultation
Yes
Areas of Practice
  • Adolescents/Teens
  • Alternative Sexuality & Lifestyle
  • Anxiety/Panic
  • BDSM/Kink
  • Bi/Multicultural Experience
  • Couples/Relationship Counseling
  • Codependency/ACA
  • Creativity
  • Depression
  • Grief & Loss
  • Immigration/Acculturation
  • Integration of Expanded States of Consciousness
  • Intercultural Relationships
  • LGBTQIA
  • Parenting
  • Polyamory & Alt Relationship Configurations
  • Polycule/Poly Network Counseling
  • Questioning/Exploring Orientation
  • Race/Ethnicity & Culture
  • Trans & Gender Expansive Experience
  • Trauma/PTSD
Modalities
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
  • Culturally Responsive
  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
  • Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
  • Existential-Humanistic
  • Family Therapy
  • Feminist
  • Gottman Method
  • Mindfulness Based
  • Psychoanalytic
  • Psychodynamic
  • Relational/Interpersonal
  • Solution Focused Brief
Race or Ethnicity
  • White/European American
Languages Spoken
  • English
  • Russian
  • Ukrainian
Office Address: Street
2517 Mission St.
Office Address: Street 2
Suite 4
Office Address: City
San Francisco
Office Address: State
California
Office Address: Zip Code
94110
 

Expanded profile fields (for Directory members only)

Gender Diversity/Transgender Care Knowledge Level
Informed
LGBTQIA Knowledge Level
Specialization
Kink/BDSM Knowledge Level
Mindful
Polyamory/Consensual Non-Monogamy Knowledge Level
Informed
Sex Work(er) Knowledge Level
Mindful

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