Merle Maynard, LMFT
A home for therapy, learning, and ideas for people navigating complexity, difference, and the ongoing work of becoming.
Currently Exploring: The Myth of the Unified Self.
Currently Exploring: The Myth of the Unified Self.
What if we aren’t meant to be one coherent, consistent self? This Tiny Theory zine explores multiplicity, contradiction, and the ways we become ourselves through relationship, context, and change.
Ways to work together
Individual Therapy
Collaborative, trauma-informed psychotherapy for adults navigating identity, trauma, neurodivergence, relationships, and life transitions.
Relationship Therapy
Support for couples, polycules, and other relationship structures seeking greater understanding, communication, and connection.
Professional Consultation
Consultation for therapists, educators, and helping professionals interested in neurodiversity-affirming, queer-affirming, and relational approaches to care.
Teaching & Speaking
For clinicians, schools, organizations, and community groups exploring trauma, neurodiversity, gender diversity, and relational mental health.
What this work is grounded in
This practice is trauma-informed, neurodivergent-affirming, and queer- and trans-affirming. The work is relational, curious, and grounded in cultural humility — not in fixing people, but in making space for complexity.
Specialties include attachment, complex trauma, neurodiversity, gender and relationship diversity, executive functioning, burnout, and identity. Learn more about the approach.
Curious about working together?
Therapy is a place to think, feel, and figure things out at your own pace, in relationship. If you're wondering whether this might be a good fit, reach out and we can talk it through.