Maya Kruger, MA, LCAT, RDT, PMH-C

Psychotherapist 

Maya Kruger is a Licensed Psychotherapist, Creative Arts Therapist, Registered Drama Therapist, and Perinatal Mental Health Practitioner in the state of New York. She has an innate passion for incorporating creative arts in the traditionally practiced modalities of mental health treatment. She believes an integrated life is one that incorporates creativity, spontaneity, curiosity. Her clinical experience spans a wide age range and life challenges of clients ; including utilizing creative art therapy and action based methods with incarcerated adult men at the Bellevue Forensic Psychiatry department in Manhattan, facilitating Music Therapy sessions with young adults living on the Autism spectrum at the Nordoff Robbins Center for Music Therapy in NYC, as well as serving as an Expressive Arts Therapist and Vocational Specialist for an Intensive outpatient program which provided care for adults living with disorders of the self (otherwise known as Personality Disorders), mood disorders, thought disorders as well as learning differences such as ADD and ADHD. Maya holds a B.Ed in Education and Theater Directing from Seminar Hakibutzim College in the beautiful Tel Aviv; this has informed her work as her time as a drama therapist with ENACT, where she worked within the NYC school system, utilizing dramatic interventions for social and emotional learning, as well as emotional processing as a group for children from kindergarten age to high-school.

Two particular specialities of hers are grief processing and working with creatives. As a published playwright and writer, she understands the artist's mind - especially when it comes to working through creative blocks and expanding one's artistic range of expression. She has been published on the topic of Complicated Grief Through the Lens of Attachment Theory. 

Maya has worked as an Executive Coach and Work Culture Specialist in professional and corporate settings as well. She currently serves as an internal mediator and facilitator for several Fortune 500 companies, bringing mental health awareness and stress management skills to professionals who are committed to an ethical work culture. As of recently, she served as Director of Clinical Operations and Executive Coaching at Wire Health. 

Maya is trained in Open Dialogue, Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT), Psychodrama, and Perinatal Mood Disorders. Certified as a Perinatal Mental Health Clinician, my primary focus is to help Millennial and Gen-Z women in the perinatal period (preconception planning to early motherhood) struggling with anxiety, trauma, and adjusting to motherhood. She guides her clients to define and own what mothering looks like for them.

Maya is passionate about helping clients make sense of their stories by taking ownership and creative freedom to rewrite, and thus redefine them for themselves. She believes in facilitating change from a place of compassion, connection, and most of all - collaboration.