About Mayra
Mayra Vega is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than 15 years in mental health practice. She works from New York and offers therapy in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. She focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship and family concerns, and LGBT-related issues.
Her approach centers on each person's strengths. Sessions are shaped around what the individual needs, with respect and cultural sensitivity. Mayra aims to avoid labels and to create a supportive, nonjudgmental space for people to talk through their concerns.
Background and approach
She uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Attachment-based ideas guide work on relationship patterns and intimacy-related struggles. Mindfulness skills are included to help with stress, grounding, and emotional regulation.
Mayra also brings motivational interviewing and client-centered techniques into sessions to help people set goals and find their own solutions. She has experience addressing parenting strain, caregiver stress, grief, anger, bipolar challenges, ADHD, and issues tied to gender and identity. Her background includes working with people facing homelessness and immigration challenges and with complex family-of-origin issues.
She is upfront about limitations and does not focus on OCD, autism, sexual dysfunctions, borderline personality disorder, or neurocognitive disorders. Mayra describes seeking help as a brave first step and partners with people to move toward the changes they want.
Approach and online therapy options
Mayra uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood through concrete skill building. Attachment-based therapy helps people understand how early relationship patterns affect current connections and intimacy, useful for relationship and family concerns.She also draws on a client-centered approach that puts the person’s experience at the center of sessions, supporting self-directed goals and building on individual strengths. Choosing the right mix of these approaches is part of the work; the therapist will collaborate with the client to decide what fits their needs, goals, and preferences as treatment progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversational work and reading nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, homework support, and those who prefer writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Spanish, Portuguese