Laya Jamali, LMFT, is a licensed marriage and family therapist at Sage Integrative Health in Berkeley, California. She holds a master's degree in Counseling Psychology from St. Mary's College of California, with an emphasis on humanistic and trauma-informed care, and a second master's degree in Brain Imaging and Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. She has completed a two-year training program in Ketamine-Assisted Therapy at Alchemy Community Therapy Center and is certified in Ericksonian hypnotherapy through the Milton Erickson Foundation.
Jamali's therapeutic approach is integrative and client-centered, bringing together relational therapy, Jungian and archetypal studies, somatic methods, mindfulness, and parts work. Her clinical interests include depression, grief and loss, identity exploration, spiritual emergence and spiritual depression, religious trauma, creative blocks, neurodiversity, PTSD, and complex PTSD. Her work is also shaped by imaginal and dream work, conscious movement, somatic embodiment practices, and her Persian and Sufi lineage.
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Depth orientation
Laya Jamali explicitly weaves Jungian and archetypal studies into an integrative clinical approach that also includes relational therapy, somatic methods, mindfulness, and parts work. Her profile names imaginal and dream work, conscious movement, somatic embodiment practices, Persian mysticism, and Sufi lineage as central influences.