Maia Institute

The Maia Institute is a team of expert mental health consultants offering nationwide services in English, Spanish, and American Sign Language (ASL). Our base locations are in the Washington DC Metro Area and Northern VA, as well as in the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California. At the Maia Institute, we focus on providing expert consultations on matters of mental health and law, psychodiagnostic and neuropsychological assessments, and consultation services for institutions seeking to optimize mental health, its delivery, or compliance with regulations.

What Sets Us Apart

As expert mental health consultants, we stand out from the rest for several reasons. Firstly, our bilingual, nationwide consulting experts have decades of experience in psychiatry, psychology, and law. We understand the needs of our clients and the barriers they face in finding and vetting experts. We offer comprehensive, high-end, best-evidence practice mental health assessments and evaluations to clients requiring the most critical and intensive needs.

Our Mission

Our mission is to become a national referral center for matters of mental health that require higher degrees of subspecialization. We strive to offer guidance by bringing together innovative and highly skilled minds in an environment where individual strengths and creativity can flourish, enabling mental health care at its fullest potential.

Our Expertise

Our team of experts includes specialists with expertise and certification in sports psychiatry consulting, consulting for treatment-resistant illnesses and complex cases, medication-assisted treatment of addiction, and more. Our founder, Dr. Carolina Klein, M.D., is Board Certified in General Psychiatry and Neurology and in Forensic Psychiatry, and certified by the ABAM in Addiction Psychiatry.

Our Team

Our team is led by Dr. Carolina Klein, a triple-board certified psychiatrist with extensive experience in clinical and forensic settings, academic, and teaching. With a commitment to searching for medical and legal evidence-based responses, our team is dedicated to providing exceptional work in forensic psychiatry, neuropsychology, and institutional consulting.