Nice to meet you – נעים להכיר
I’m Mayan and
I invite you to get curious with me.
A little about me…
If you're reading this, something in you is already reaching toward something more. That matters. I don't take it lightly.
My name is Mayan. I'm a Relationship and Sex Therapist based in Tel Aviv, and I work with individuals and couples who are ready to look honestly at how they love, connect, and relate — to others and to themselves.
I was born in Israel and mostly raised in Miami, which meant growing up between two cultures, two languages, and two very different ways of understanding intimacy and family. That experience taught me early that people always make sense in context. The way someone loves, fights, shuts down, or chases connection — it's never random. It reflects where they came from and what they had to learn to survive. That lens still shapes everything about how I sit with people in the therapy room.
I've spent years studying relationships — not because they're easy, but because they matter more than almost anything else. When we don't feel safe to connect, everything else in life gets harder. That's what drives this work for me.
My Approach
I believe that relationships are the central part of our lives, and that the way we relate shapes the way we live. This is where my work comes in: I help you build safer relationships with deeper connection. My work is rooted in both western clinical frameworks and eastern healing practices, because I believe real change happens in the mind and the body.
Education & Credentials
M.S. in Marriage and Family Therapy, University of Southern California
B.S. in Psychology, double minor in Cognitive Sciences & Statistics
Trauma-Informed Certification, Domestic Violence Counseling
Gottman Method Couples Therapy, Level 2
Therapeutic Modalities
Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Gottman Method
Mindfulness-Based Tantric Therapy
Sensate Focus Sex Therapy
What our work looks like…
Most people come to therapy thinking it's about fixing what's broken. But that's rarely what the work actually is. More often, it's about meeting the parts of you that learned to survive –the parts that got stuck in protection, fear, or distance – and slowly showing them that things can be different now.
Sometimes that means learning something new. And sometimes it means letting go of something old – a belief about yourself, a pattern that made sense once but doesn't anymore. Both matter.
In our sessions, we slow things down. We get curious about what keeps repeating, what feels hard to shift, and what you might have learned a long time ago in order to feel safe or loved. Whether you come alone or with a partner, the goal is similar: more awareness, more choice, and a little more compassion for yourself and the way you show up in relationship. If you do come with a partner, we'll also spend time on the practical – how you fight, how you repair, how you build intimacy and keep it alive.
The work we do in sessions will be deep and challenging, but that's only where the work begins. Each week I'll offer something to take with you: a question to sit with, a journaling prompt, a specific guided exercise to try. What happens between sessions matters just as much as what happens in them. That's where the real shift tends to happen – in the small, ordinary moments – and I’ll be there to support you in doing just that.
My hope is that you leave feeling a little more like yourself. And that the relationships in your life start to feel like somewhere you can actually land.