Mya L. Adams
M. Ed., LPC, ADHD-CCSP, C- DBT
Therapist, Clinical Supervisor, Author, Human
Phone:
480.447.6537
Email:
Address:
2266 S. Dobson Rd.
Suite 200 - Office 253
Mesa, AZ 85202
Graduate School:
Seattle University
A Bit About Me
I am a licensed professional counselor, board-approved clinical supervisor, ADHD Clinical Services Provider, and certified in DBT. I am the Founder and Clinical Director of Adams Mental Health, and the author of Emotional Physics.
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But credentials are just the map.
Here's a little of the territory.
Work Experience
2013-2016
Early Years
I entered graduate school at Seattle University the way most people enter anything worth doing — with more heart than certainty. While completing my Master's degree in Mental Health Counseling, I worked in community mental health as a psychiatric aide and then as a care coordinator. I call this period paying my dues, and I mean that with full sincerity and zero resentment.
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The work was challenging. The hours were long. The education was immense in ways that no classroom can fully prepare you for. I spent a significant portion of this time working inpatient — witnessing the deep end of mental health up close, in real time, with real people in real crisis. It was not easy. It was also one of the most formative experiences of my professional life. I am a much better clinician for having been there.
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Seattle University gave me more than a degree. It gave me a foundation that has never left me regardless of where my career has taken me since: that all people, regardless of circumstance, are people — deserving of respect, care, and compassion. Full stop.
2016-2022
Community Years
After graduation I remained in community mental health for several years, working with children, families, child protective services, and inpatient substance abuse rehabilitation. None of this was easy work. Systems are difficult to work within — and I found myself constantly at odds with them, unable to ignore the things I witnessed that didn't sit comfortably inside me.
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I want to be honest about that. The systems I worked within were often doing their best under impossible conditions. And they were also, at times, failing the very people they were designed to serve. Holding both of those things simultaneously — compassion for the system and accountability to the people inside it — is something I learned to do during these years. It made me a better advocate. It still does.
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What I learned during these years — slowly, sometimes the hard way — is that I could not maintain genuine presence while being constricted by systems I was constantly at odds with internally. So I found a setting where I could show up more fully. The advocacy came with me.
2022- Present
Current Chapter
I left community mental health and ventured into private practice — first joining a group practice, then stepping out as a solo provider under the name MindByMya, then becoming a board-approved clinical supervisor, and eventually opening my own practice: Adams Mental Health.
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Since then, Adams Mental Health has grown — rather rapidly, if I'm being honest, in ways that still occasionally surprise me. We now have a team of dedicated providers across four locations in the Valley, and we continue to expand our services to meet the needs of the community we serve.
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I've also written a book. Emotional Physics — a book about why your feelings aren't chaos, they're physics — it is the culmination of years of clinical work, personal growth, and the slow realization that I had been writing it my whole life without knowing it. I also have a few more books in mind.
I am excited to see where life and I venture together.
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This chapter, more than any other, feels like the one where I can finally see that things were always moving in the direction they were meant to go. Not to say I don't still occasionally feel confused or befuddled by this, that, or the other thing. My license plate holder does, after all, say don't follow me, I'm lost — which is either a deeply ironic choice for someone people trust with their most vulnerable moments, or the most honest thing I own.
Possibly both.
