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Maria “Levy” Downs

LMFT #83790

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (she/her)

M.A. (Counseling Psychology)

  • In-person & Telehealth

Client Focus:

Families
Teens
Young adults/TAY
Individuals
Parents

Issues:

  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Parenting Issues
  • Transitions
  • Eating Disorders

“Love the Life You Live; Live the Life you Love.”

- Bob Marley

Finding a therapist, especially post-pandemic, has proven to be a job in and of itself. When you’re struggling with anxiety, burn out, depression or needing support in your transition or to recover from your eating disorder, that extra task feels impossible.

With my background in holistic studies, I aim to support a client’s full self: in mind, body, spirit, and culture. I prefer to work in collaboration with my clients to achieve the goals they declare at the onset of our meeting.

I utilize a holistic and individualistic approach throughout the therapeutic process to accommodate each client’s unique experience, needs, and goals for therapy.

I want my clients to feel like they are having a normal conversation with a loving human being that joins them in their search for self-discovery, relief from anxiety and depression and identifying their best next steps towards the life they want to create.

Specialties:

Family conflict
Parenting coaching
Adolescent development
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More About Levy

Levy is a Licensed a Marriage and Family Therapist John F. Kennedy University graduate with a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology with a Specialization in Holistic Studies. For almost 20 years, she worked at Stanford Children’s Hospital’s medical stabilization unit for teens with eating disorders. Initially starting as a milieu counselor and later transitioning to parent education, Levy believes all patients and families deserve to know all their treatment options. After Stanford, Levy worked as a therapist and clinical director for the Healthy Teen Project in Los Altos. After the pandemic, she shifted to working exclusively in her hybrid virtual and in person private practice, based out of San Mateo. Levy also now also brings her extensive experience and wisdom to benefit our team at CWL as a Clinical Supervisor.
  • An eclectic mix of CBT
  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
  • Motivational Interviewing (MI)
  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
  • Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT)
  • Family-based treatment (or FBT)
  • Adolescent-Focused Therapy (AFT)

Personally, I’m a soccer mom and enjoy watching sports of all types with my teenage child. I am a yearly camper, find live music healing and spending time with my very large extended family is a blessing I do not take for granted.

I love children of all ages. Their zest for life and their ability to be unarmored and honest is refreshing.