After several years of working as a Clinical Psychologist in Lima-Perú, Claudia obtained her Masters degree in Marriage and Family Therapy in the United States. She has experience in assessing and treating families, couples and individuals within the context of their relationships, focusing on families struggling with a variety of challenges including trauma, parenting, anxiety, emotional and physical abuse, and loss. Ms.Maya’s approach encourages the growth of emotional attachment and communication resulting in an integrated well-being. She also conducts therapy in both English and Spanish and has worked extensively with the Latino community.

Claudia believes her role in the therapeutic relationship is to join with her clients to help integrate their experiences so that they move forward with resiliency, compassion, strength, and openness. She works from a multicultural awareness perspective considering gender and ethnicity, and from a perspective of life span development and systems-based theories and practices.

Claudia is bilingual and bi-cultural. Having migrated from another country and adjusted to a different society has helped her realize that our differences are what bring us together. Ms.Maya’s journey, although challenging, has been enriching, and has helped facilitated her to be the understanding, open, caring and compassionate therapist she is today.

Paola Peters, LMFT

Paola is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She also holds a degree in Psychology (Licenciada en Psicologia) from Argentina. Ms.Peters is aBilingual/Bicultural in Spanish/ English. Her view of therapy not only involves discussing difficult aspects of one's life, like marital struggles, feeling down, depressed and lonely but also a journey that involves growth and healing, through sustained self-exploration of life experiences that are impacting one's lifestyle now. Paola believes that therapy is about understanding oneself and others, as well as learning effective ways to solve personal and interpersonal problems to tolerate and reduce stress in order to live a more rewarding life.

Therapy can help one navigate smoothly periods in life that brings many changes, like entering "middle-age", getting married, becoming a parent, leaving home, changing/losing your job; becoming ill, disabled; being bereaved; moving, retiring. It is common that during those times, people can start evaluating their lives finding these periods difficult to adjust.

Paola works with individuals and couples of all races, cultures and orientations. She also provides psychological assessments/evaluations relevant to immigration cases, i.e. asylum cases, extreme hardship waivers and VAWA cases.