About
Maya Wolf, OTD, MBA, OTR/L
Maya Wolf is a pediatric occupational therapist with over two decades of experience. Over the course of her career, many parents have expressed that their child faces challenges with sleep.
Maya combined her expertise working with children and families with her doctoral research on sleep and developed a parent coaching program, Dream On, to promote positive bedtime experiences and healthy sleep in children.
Dream On uses a holistic approach and offers a variety of evidence-based nonpharmacological strategies shown to improve sleep. Maya also continues to offer pediatric occupational therapy services as well.
Maya is a pediatric occupational therapist registered and licensed to practice in New York and New Jersey. She is a two-time Boston University alumni, receiving both her bachelor and doctorate degrees in occupational therapy. Her doctoral research was conducted on behavioral sleep problems in children with neurodevelopmental delays and she has since developed a parent focused program to improve sleep in children.
Maya is a lifelong learner and has received further clinical training on numerous topics including but not limited to: sleep, sensory processing and integration, reflex integration, social emotional learning, executive functioning, handwriting. She utilizes a number of programs in treatment sessions such as the following: Therapeutic Listening, Handwriting Without Tears, Size Matters Handwriting Program, The Alert Program, Zones of Regulation, The Interoception Curriculum.
Her training as a Yoga Teacher (YT200) has led her to incorporate mindfulness-based interventions to help children develop strength, balance, body awareness and a sense of calm. As a Proficient DIR Floortime Provider, Maya utilizes this approach to promote the child’s functional emotional developmental capacities (self regulation, engagement, communication, shared social problem solving, use of symbols, logical thinking, multiple perspectives) through the use of child-centered play and building relationships.
Her holistic approach, nurturing demeanor and passion for helping children and families is evident in her practice.
Additionally, Maya is keen on sharing her knowledge with others. She has presented and conducted workshops locally and internationally to parents and healthcare and educational professionals on a variety of pediatric occupational therapy-related topics. As an adjunct professor in the occupational therapy department at Iona University, fieldwork educator, and an interprofessional education facilitator, Maya teaches aspiring therapists.
In July of 2024, Maya made and delivered sensory calm kits to children in Israel that have been displaced from their home due to the October 7th massacre and ongoing war.
Inspired by her kits, she and a few colleagues later organized a fundraising project, Carmel’s Calm Kits, in which 500 sensory calm kits are being delivered to children in Israel experiencing mental health issues.
Carmel’s Calm Kits are in memory of Carmel Gat, an Israeli occupational therapist who was held hostage and murdered by Hamas.
