Amaya Bolling is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist whose deepest experience is with children and their families, and who is glad to be expanding her work with adolescents, adults, couples, and families as well. She supports clients through anxiety, seasons of transition and adjustment, and the relational patterns that shape family life. Her training as a marriage and family therapist means she looks beyond the individual to the relationships, systems, and experiences that inform how a person understands themselves and connects with others, recognizing patterns together and exploring the possibility of breaking cycles when a client feels ready.

Amaya's approach draws on Humanistic therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Child-Centered Play Therapy (CCPT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Her work with children taught her the value of play and creative intervention for reaching emotional expression that traditional talk therapy often cannot access, and it continues to shape how she approaches self-regulation and meets clients where they are developmentally. She also brings a genuine curiosity to the room, meeting each client with questions rather than assumptions so that therapy feels like a collaborative space rather than something being done to them.

Amaya holds a Master's degree in Clinical Psychology from Vanguard University of Southern California and brings a year and a half of direct clinical experience across school, home, and community settings. She has worked with children ages four to ten experiencing ADHD, autism, Down syndrome, anxiety, and depression, and has completed continuing education in Advanced Motivational Interviewing with Dr. Stephen Rollnick, Trauma-Informed Play Therapy for Dysregulation Disorders with Dr. Paris Goodyear-Brown, Self-Regulation Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Laura Ehlert, PsyD, Couples Therapy Immersion Training with Terry Real, and Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy. She also supports clients with academic and school-related stress, self-concept and identity exploration, emotional regulation and coping skills, neurodevelopmental differences and adjustment, social and peer-related challenges, and behavioral and emotional concerns.

Outside the therapy room, Amaya is an avid off-roader and camper who loves connecting with nature and feeling small next to something much bigger than herself, a perspective she finds grounding when life feels insurmountable. It is also how she met her husband. The two of them visit national parks together, where she collects patches and he collects stickers as they trek through the Pacific Northwest. She is a photographer too, drawn to capturing a moment in a single frame that carries the same feeling she had standing in it.

• Amaya's developmental and play-based experience allows her to use play and creative interventions to open up emotional expression, particularly with younger clients and anyone working on self-regulation.

• Her marriage and family therapy training keeps the whole family system in view, so she can recognize relational patterns and support cycle-breaking at the pace a client sets.

• She brings a genuine curiosity about people to every session, working to understand a client's story, history, and values rather than arriving with assumptions, because the work rests on the trust built in that relationship.

Supervised By: Kaitlyn Harrison, LMFT #123775, LPCC #10535