Mariia Shurkhal

Mariia is a Marriage and Family Therapist Trainee and graduate student in Clinical Psychology at Pepperdine University. She holds an MS in Computer Science and spent over a decade as a product manager in the tech industry, helping people and organizations navigate complexity, before answering a longer-standing pull toward helping people make sense of their lives. She brings that same orientation to the therapy room, where the complexity is deeply personal.

She works collaboratively with clients to explore the stories that shape their lives, holding space for new possibilities to emerge when those stories are examined with curiosity and care. She brings warmth and genuine curiosity to every session, believing that clients are the experts on their own experience.

Outside of the therapy room, Mariia finds joy in improv, which she experiences as genuinely therapeutic, and in the kinds of conversations where an idea arrives and quietly rearranges how you see something.