Empowering individuals to cultivate mental, physical, emotional, and social well-being, heal from within, and thrive in their lives through compassionate, personalized therapy services. Our mission is to provide a safe and supportive environment where clients can explore their inner selves, develop coping strategies, and unlock their full potential for growth and resilience.
We believe that everyone has the potential to live a fulfilling and meaningful life. By identifying and working towards their goals, our clients are able to unlock their full potential and create a life they love. We want you to feel safe, comfortable and supported to do this deep work and will be with you throughout the process as we navigate whatever struggle you are dealing with. Healing is possible, the only way past the past is through, and it takes an enormous amount of energy and trust for this process to happen. We value your time and want to help you achieve your goals in therapy.
We offer online individual therapy sessions to teens and adult clients in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, we provide psychological assessments, second opinions, treatment for anxiety, depression, trauma, eating disorders, grief, adjustment disorder, and life transitions. We work with different treatment modalities such as EMDR, DBT, CBT, CBT-E, Motivational Interviewing, Mindfulness among others. These services are designed to help clients overcome obstacles, improve their mindset, their overall health, and achieve their therapy goals.
ALPS was founded by Maura M. Amaral. Maura has a Psychologist degree from PUC Minas, Brazil, a diploma of Advanced Studies in Psychology from UAM, Spain, a Masters in Sports Psychology from UAM, Spain, and a Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy from USF, San Francisco. Maura has taught Psychology at undergraduate and graduate levels in Brazil and Spain, and has over 20 years of experience developing, teaching and leading workshops and lectures worldwide on human potential enhancement, empowering individuals and groups, teaching them coping skills, supporting them to identify distorted thinking, triggers, and equipping them with tools and techniques that can be useful when they need to rescue themselves, helping them connect with their inner strength and see the diamond that they are. Her approach is calm, empathetic, compassionate, client-led, trauma-informed, and strengths-based.
She likes prescribing movement, movie therapy, and bibliotherapy as adjunct to therapy as well as connecting people with additional resources. Maura practices in California as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.