Dr. Maia C. Jamadi began her academic journey at New York University, earning a Bachelor of Arts with a concentration in Psychology and Philosophy in 2000. She went on to attend the Master of Arts in General Psychology program at NYU, eventually obtaining a Master of Arts in Psychology in 2004 and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 2009 from the Long Island University Brooklyn Campus. During her clinical training, she served as a Psychology Extern and Intern at Lenox Hill Hospital and worked as a Therapeutic Visiting Coach at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Her doctoral research earned her the Dissertation of the Year Award from Long Island University in 2010.

Following her doctoral graduation, Dr. Jamadi worked as a Staff Psychologist at the Seamen’s Society for Children and Families from 2009 to 2012, where she conducted psychotherapy and developed assessment protocols for birth parent court evaluations. Concurrently, she served as a Neuropsychological Assessment Assistant between 2009 and 2017. In July 2011, she established her private practice, which now operates as matter.psychology, apc, where she continues to provide psychotherapy and psychological assessment services across Long Beach, California, and New York, New York. Dr. Jamadi holds active clinical psychology licenses in California, New York, Hawaii, Illinois, and Texas.

To further expand her clinical expertise, Dr. Jamadi completed specialized training in Perinatal Mood Disorders (2017), Advanced Perinatal Mental Health Psychotherapy (2019), Complicated Grief (2021), and EMDR Therapy for BIPOC Clinicians (2022). Her leadership experience includes serving as the Doctoral Program Director at The Maple Counseling Center in Los Angeles from September 2021 to October 2023, where she supervised and coordinated the training of doctoral psychology interns. Additionally, from January 2022 to November 2024, she provided comprehensive psychological evaluations as a Clinical Psychologist at Wonder Tree Developmental Psychology in Pasadena, California.

A dedicated educator, Dr. Jamadi has maintained multiple supervisory roles throughout her career. She currently serves as a voluntary Clinical Supervisor at Northwell Health’s Lenox Hill Hospital and The Maple Counseling Center, providing weekly psychodynamic psychotherapy supervision to trainees. Her commitment to education also includes a 2023 guest lecture on psychological assessment at Udayana University in Bali, Indonesia.