Online Psychotherapy & Clinical Consulting
Dr. A Maya Kaye, Karuṇā's Founder & Clinical Director
About Dr. Kaye
Dr. A. Maya Kaye, DSW, PhD, LCSW, is a compassion-focused, neuroscience-informed psychotherapist, researcher, professor, and founder of Karuṇā Psychotherapy & Consulting.
As a biracial South Asian woman fluent in multiple languages, Dr. Kaye brings a culturally attuned perspective that helps her connect deeply with diverse patients and colleagues.
She offers teletherapy across New York State, making high-quality mental health care accessible.
Dr. Kaye specializes in supporting emerging adults (18–40) and middle-aged adults (40–65) navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship challenges, and life transitions.
She believes that therapy grounded in compassion, respect, and safeness creates the foundation for lasting change.
Her approach weaves together mind-body psychology practices that support nervous system regulation and integration, drawing on advanced training in Internal Family Systems (IFS), somatic therapy, Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT), psychodynamic psychotherapy, Mentalization-Based Therapy (MBT), and mindfulness.
Beyond clinical care, Dr. Kaye is an active translational researcher and professor committed to advancing scholarship on compassion in psychotherapy, mentoring, and mind-body interventions.
She is passionate about building a more diverse, compassionate, and neuroscience-informed mental health field.