About
Talk it through, and see it laid out.
A worry is hard to look at while you're inside it. Thoughts loop, one leads to the next, and by the end of a conversation the thing you worked out has already scrolled away.
Maya gives the conversation a shape. You talk about what's on your mind, and as you do, it becomes a map of your feelings, thoughts, urges and what you did about them that stays put, so you can question it, act on it and come back to it.
How a map comes together
Notice
Start with whatever's on your mind. Maya listens and asks a question or two, and the feeling becomes the root of a new map.
Understand
As you talk, your thoughts land on the map one by one, so you can see what sits under what and where a branch keeps leading.
Act, or let it be
Each branch can end somewhere: a small experiment to test a fear, a kinder view to keep, or simply making room for the feeling.
What's on a map
Every map starts from a feeling. Everything that grows from it has a kind, so you can tell a passing thought from a belief, and an urge from a choice.
Thought
What went through your mind, in your words.
Belief
The deeper belief underneath, the one that makes the thought sting.
Question
A question that tests the thought, like "what would I tell a friend?"
Insight
A kinder or fairer way to see it, once it fits for you.
Urge
What the feeling pulls you to do, like checking your phone or backing out of a plan.
Behavior
What you did or kept doing, out in the world or in your head, like replaying a conversation.
Tools you choose
When a thought is ready for it, Maya can offer a tool: a question to test it, a way to step back from it, or a short practice. There are 72 tools across 15 toolkits, from psychology, classic psychology, philosophy and religion & spirituality.
You turn them on
Maya only uses the toolkits you've chosen, so it fits what you believe and how you like to think.
Honest about the evidence
Each tool says where it comes from. 22 are from approaches studied in research; the rest come from tradition, and are labelled that way.
Careful about fit
Some tools don't suit every moment. Maya holds back ones that could make things harder, for example around grief, trauma or hopelessness.
Yours, and private
Your maps are private, and we don't sell or share them. Maya can remember things that help, like people in your life or what works for you, but you can see, delete or turn off anything it remembers. A map is only shared if you make a link, and you can turn the link off. Read the privacy policy.
Not a therapist
Maya is a tool for seeing your own thinking, not therapy or a crisis service. It works well alongside therapy, and a map is something you can bring to a session. If you're in danger, please call your local emergency number, or in the US call or text 988. findahelpline.com lists free lines elsewhere.
What's on your mind?
Maya is free while in beta. We'd love to hear what helps and what doesn't.