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 Mykhaylova

 

Member profile details

Membership level
Licensed
First name
Mariya
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. I work with individuals, couples+, and families. My therapeutic approach is grounded in psychoanalytic and attachment theories.

The individual clients I work with come to therapy for a variety of reasons. A recurring theme in my work is the interplay between our relationship with ourselves and our relationships with others. Somewhere along the way, you may have learned to keep your emotional world zipped up–in order to survive, succeed, caretake, or be loved—and this way of being may now leave you feeling depleted and disconnected. In our work together, we’ll explore how to show up more authentically, clarify and express wants and needs, set healthy boundaries, and shift recurring patterns in relationships. I also work with a range of other concerns, including perfectionism, depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, trauma, life transitions, and immigration and intercultural issues.

In relationship therapy with couples+ and families, I use a psychoanalytic, attachment-based, and systems perspective. Together, we can slow things down in order to gain a deeper understanding of what occurs in your relationship consciously and unconsciously and what vulnerable feelings are in the mix. I can support you with cultivating awareness, interrupting unhelpful patterns, increasing healthy differentiation and intimacy, navigating conflict, processing intergenerational trauma, renegotiating boundaries in a new phase of life, processing immigration and acculturation experiences, exploring intercultural dynamics, and dialoguing across polarization.
Professional Designation (Licensed)
  • LCSW
CA License Number
87694
Professional Website
https://mariya.care
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
  • Eating Disorders/Body Image
  • Grief & Loss
  • Immigration/Acculturation
  • Intercultural Relationships
  • LGBTQIA
  • Parenting
  • Personality Disorders
  • Polyamory & Alt Relationship Configurations
  • Polycule/Poly Network Counseling
  • Questioning/Exploring Orientation
  • Race/Ethnicity & Culture
  • Trans & Gender Expansive Experience
  • Trauma/PTSD
Modalities
  • Culturally Responsive
  • Existential-Humanistic
  • Family Therapy
  • Mindfulness Based
  • Psychoanalytic
  • Psychodynamic
  • Relational/Interpersonal
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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