Dr. Maria Meka

Licensed Clinical Psychologist | Specializing in Anxiety, Depression and OCD

Dr. Maria Meka is a licensed clinical psychologist who has been providing individual psychotherapy to clients across the lifespan since 2015. She specializes in addressing anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), trauma, life transitions, interpersonal conflicts, and immigration and acculturation challenges. Dr. Meka has extensive experience in providing psychological care for adults and adolescents from a variety of social, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds. She also enjoys supervising postdoctoral students and providing psychoeducation and professional training on coping with OCD.

Dr. Meka’s approach is rooted in psychodynamic theory, with an emphasis on understanding clients’ unique backgrounds and interpersonal dynamics in relation to their presenting problems. She works relationally, utilizing a warm, collaborative, and culturally attuned approach to empower clients and to help them gain tools for coping with their challenges.

Dr. Meka received her doctoral degree in clinical psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP-SF). Her research focused on depression as a result of immigration and acculturation challenges. She completed her internship at the Ann Martin Center and her post-doctoral training at Richmond Area Multi-Services (RAMS) in San Francisco. Dr. Meka received her bachelor’s degree in psychology and minor in cognitive science at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).

She currently provides individual psychotherapy to adolescents and adults via telehealth across the state of California.