Maia Akiva is a Professional Speaker, certified Mental Health Coach,
and a Writer. Her unique approach encourages audiences to embrace
their relationships with their emotions and feelings as a path to
better mental health. She is also a Social Emotional Arts Facilitator
and Certificate Holder from the Arts & Healing Initiative program
at UCLA.
Maia reimagines Mental Health healing methods in a dynamic blend
of insight and creativity for a flourishing everyday life.
With outside-the-box mental health learning experiences,
trainings, and stories that personify and realize abstract
emotions, Maia guides her audience through the journey
of mental health that she is inspired to navigate every day.
She is the creator of Mental Health + Creativity a service that
offer a unique, creative mental health programming and content.
She wrote and created a Mental Health, Addiction and Trauma
Creative Writing Curriculum Guide that is being facilitated
in many Treatment Centers, and also in Youth programs,
after-school program.
Some of her clients include: Reconnect Integrative Trauma
Treatment Center, Resilience Treatment Center for Mental Health,
Sanctuary Addiction Treatment Center, 826LA, Caltech,
Johns Hopkins University - Clinical Mental Health Counseling program,
Schools districts in CA and Texas and many more.
She is now training teachers, after school staff, therapists, writers,
mental health staff and organizations on her Mental Health, Addiction
and Trauma Creative Writing curriculum.
And facilitating “Mental Health Tune-Ups and Team building” events
for staff, colleges, and groups. She is partnered with kid-grit
to bring the Writing for Wellness program to school and after-school staff.
She just finished creating a longer Mental Health and Creativity
immersive experience for groups and organizations.
Maia's Mission Statement, vision and belief is
in normalizing self-help into our everyday lives.
and a Writer. Her unique approach encourages audiences to embrace
their relationships with their emotions and feelings as a path to
better mental health. She is also a Social Emotional Arts Facilitator
and Certificate Holder from the Arts & Healing Initiative program
at UCLA.
Maia reimagines Mental Health healing methods in a dynamic blend
of insight and creativity for a flourishing everyday life.
With outside-the-box mental health learning experiences,
trainings, and stories that personify and realize abstract
emotions, Maia guides her audience through the journey
of mental health that she is inspired to navigate every day.
She is the creator of Mental Health + Creativity a service that
offer a unique, creative mental health programming and content.
She wrote and created a Mental Health, Addiction and Trauma
Creative Writing Curriculum Guide that is being facilitated
in many Treatment Centers, and also in Youth programs,
after-school program.
Some of her clients include: Reconnect Integrative Trauma
Treatment Center, Resilience Treatment Center for Mental Health,
Sanctuary Addiction Treatment Center, 826LA, Caltech,
Johns Hopkins University - Clinical Mental Health Counseling program,
Schools districts in CA and Texas and many more.
She is now training teachers, after school staff, therapists, writers,
mental health staff and organizations on her Mental Health, Addiction
and Trauma Creative Writing curriculum.
And facilitating “Mental Health Tune-Ups and Team building” events
for staff, colleges, and groups. She is partnered with kid-grit
to bring the Writing for Wellness program to school and after-school staff.
She just finished creating a longer Mental Health and Creativity
immersive experience for groups and organizations.
Maia's Mission Statement, vision and belief is
in normalizing self-help into our everyday lives.
