Laya Jamali, LMFT
Marriage and Family Therapist
Laya (she/they) is a licensed Marriage and Family therapist. She has a masters degree in Counseling Psychology from St. Mary’s College of California with an emphasis on humanistic and trauma informed care, and a second masters in Brain Imaging and Cognitive Neuroscience from University of Birmingham, UK, where she studied cognitive processing with an emphasis on perspective taking, attention, and modulation of pain perception. She completed a two-year training program in Ketamine-Assisted Therapy at Alchemy Community Therapy Center and is a certified Ericksonian hypnotherapist from Milton Erickson Foundation.
Laya's approach to therapy is integrative and client-centered, weaving together relational therapy, Jungian/archetypal studies, somatic methods, mindfulness, and parts work. She works collaboratively with her clients, balancing a compassionate, supportive, and encouraging demeanor with a thoughtful and direct style. Her clients describe her as non-judgmental, warm, present, smart, sometimes serious and other times playful. Laya is committed to creating a safe container in which her clients can freely explore, reflect, realize, and move towards a more alive and engaged participation with life. Her work is influenced by her deep passion and personal relationship to imaginal and dream work, conscious movement, and somatic embodiment practices, infused with Persian mysticism and Sufi lineage, which form the foundation of her spiritual practice.
Laya is a queer first generation Iranian immigrant, living in between and across cultures. Her life experience in Iran and immigration journey enriches her work with a unique perspective and attunement to difference, alienation, systemic oppression, and cultural assimilation. She has served LGBTQ+, BIPOC, immigrant, neurodiverse, and sex worker communities, and honors the integrity and resilience each person brings to the therapeutic space. Her areas of interest and expertise include depression, loss and grief, identity exploration, spiritual emergence and spiritual depression, religious trauma, creative blocks, neurodiversity, PTSD and cPTSD.
Laya's approach to therapy is integrative and client-centered, weaving together relational therapy, Jungian/archetypal studies, somatic methods, mindfulness, and parts work. She works collaboratively with her clients, balancing a compassionate, supportive, and encouraging demeanor with a thoughtful and direct style. Her clients describe her as non-judgmental, warm, present, smart, sometimes serious and other times playful. Laya is committed to creating a safe container in which her clients can freely explore, reflect, realize, and move towards a more alive and engaged participation with life. Her work is influenced by her deep passion and personal relationship to imaginal and dream work, conscious movement, and somatic embodiment practices, infused with Persian mysticism and Sufi lineage, which form the foundation of her spiritual practice.
Laya is a queer first generation Iranian immigrant, living in between and across cultures. Her life experience in Iran and immigration journey enriches her work with a unique perspective and attunement to difference, alienation, systemic oppression, and cultural assimilation. She has served LGBTQ+, BIPOC, immigrant, neurodiverse, and sex worker communities, and honors the integrity and resilience each person brings to the therapeutic space. Her areas of interest and expertise include depression, loss and grief, identity exploration, spiritual emergence and spiritual depression, religious trauma, creative blocks, neurodiversity, PTSD and cPTSD.
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