Ms Maia Zway

I am a registered clinical psychologist practicing in Kenilworth. I work with adult individuals, adolescents, children, and parents. I work from an integrative psychodynamic approach, but also incorporate other modalities depending on the client's needs. I am also trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and offer EMDR therapy. I aim to create a safe, empathic, and collaborative therapeutic environment.

I believe that human beings inherently strive for growth and connection. However, patterns of relating and protective strategies that may have protected us from hurt in the past, may be hindering us from growth and connection in the present. These protective strategies and patterns of relating are often unconscious, outside of our awareness. They developed in our earliest relationships, and can thus only be healed within an empathic relationship.

I aim to create an empathic, collaborative, and supportive therapeutic environment where your strengths and your challenges can be explored. My primary therapeutic approach is integrative psychodynamic, which means that I explore unconscious and past dynamics that may be at play, but I also focus on supportive strategies to help you in the present. For children and adolescents, I also focus on helping parents become more empathic and attuned to their child's needs. I am strongly influenced by contemporary Psychoanalytic Self Psychology and Attachment Theory, which both focus on the importance of empathic attunement and relationship. I also offer EMDR, either as a focused, shorter-term approach or incorporated into longer-term therapy.