You've done the work.
It's time to go deeper.

I'm Maren Voss, a licensed therapist in Oakland specializing in EMDR, trauma, and anxiety. I work with high-achieving adults who are tired of coping and ready to actually change.

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Most of my clients have been to therapy before. They're not starting from zero. They're smart, self-aware, and functioning well enough that no one around them is worried. But something still isn't working.

The anxiety that never fully resolves. The relationship pattern that keeps repeating. The success that looks right on paper but feels hollow in the body.

I use EMDR, IFS, and somatic therapy to get underneath the stories you've been telling yourself and into the places where real change happens. My office is in Rockridge, Oakland. I also see clients across California via telehealth.

What I Treat

Trauma & PTSD

You don't have to retell your story a hundred times to heal from it. EMDR and somatic approaches can reach what talk therapy alone often can't.

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Anxiety

Anxiety isn't the problem. It's the signal. I'll help you figure out what it's actually trying to tell you, and what to do about it.

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Burnout & High-Achiever Stress

You've optimized everything except your own wellbeing. I know this pattern from the inside. There's a way out that doesn't require blowing up your life.

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Relationship Patterns

If you keep ending up in the same dynamic, the issue isn't your partner. It's the part of you that learned to survive by performing, withdrawing, or accommodating.

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Life Transitions

Career changes, identity shifts, becoming a parent, starting over. The old version of you got you here. Therapy can help you figure out who comes next.

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Beyond Talk Therapy

I don't do a lot of homework assignments or thought exercises. I'm more interested in what happens in your body when you tell me something difficult. That's where the real information is.

My approach integrates EMDR (a structured method for processing traumatic memories), IFS (a way of understanding the different parts of your internal world), and somatic awareness (paying attention to what your body knows that your mind hasn't caught up to yet).

These aren't separate treatments I rotate between. They work together, and I tailor how I use them based on what you need in any given session.

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OFFICE

HEADSHOT

A different kind of background

Before I was a therapist, I was a UX researcher at a tech company in the South Bay. I was good at the work. I was also having panic attacks in the bathroom before stakeholder meetings and calling it normal.

Therapy changed my life. Now I do this work with people who remind me of who I used to be: accomplished, anxious, and ready to stop performing wellness and start actually experiencing it.

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I'd done talk therapy for years. The EMDR work with Maren got to things in three months that I couldn't reach in five years of talking.

— Client, 2024

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