Laya Jamali, LMFT
Marriage and Family Therapist
Laya (she/they) is a licensed Marriage and Family therapist. She received her MA with an emphasis on humanistic and trauma informed care from St. Mary’s College of California. She has completed a two year training program in Ketamine Assisted Therapy at Alchemy Institute, Oakland and has a second master’s degree in Brain Imaging and Cognitive Neuroscience from University of Birmingham, UK, where she studied cognitive processing with an emphasis on perspective taking and information extraction related to neurocircuitry mechanisms of attention as well as modulation of pain perception and its impact on behavior using scientific methodologies of brain imaging (FMRI and EEG) and brain stimulation (TMS). Laya is also a certified Ericksonian hypnotherapist from Milton Erickson Foundation.
Her approach to therapy is relational, compassionate, and direct. Her clients describe her as non-judgmental, warm, present, smart, sometimes serious and other times playful. Drawing from parts work, mindfulness based, and Jungian/archetypal studies she offers an integrative approach to healing by weaving her knowledge and skills across the diverse realms of her interests. She is committed to creating a safe container in which her clients can freely and easily explore, reflect, realize and move towards a more alive and engaged participation in and with life. She works collaboratively and has a supportive and encouraging lens. Her work is also influenced by her imaginal and dream work, conscious movement and somatic embodiment practices, infused with her Persian mysticism and Sufi lineage which is 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 are depression, loss and grief, identity explorations, spiritual emergence and spiritual depression, religious trauma, creative blocks, neurodiversity, PTSD and c PTSD.
Her approach to therapy is relational, compassionate, and direct. Her clients describe her as non-judgmental, warm, present, smart, sometimes serious and other times playful. Drawing from parts work, mindfulness based, and Jungian/archetypal studies she offers an integrative approach to healing by weaving her knowledge and skills across the diverse realms of her interests. She is committed to creating a safe container in which her clients can freely and easily explore, reflect, realize and move towards a more alive and engaged participation in and with life. She works collaboratively and has a supportive and encouraging lens. Her work is also influenced by her imaginal and dream work, conscious movement and somatic embodiment practices, infused with her Persian mysticism and Sufi lineage which is 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 are depression, loss and grief, identity explorations, spiritual emergence and spiritual depression, religious trauma, creative blocks, neurodiversity, PTSD and c PTSD.
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