About us

Built by people who got tired of watching people wait.

Aurora Mind Health started with a waiting list — specifically, the eleven-month one Dr. Maya Okafor watched grow at her hospital outpatient program. The people on it didn't need eleven months. They needed a practice designed around how finding help actually feels: confusing, vulnerable, and easier to abandon than to start.

Silver-haired therapist smiling warmly as she talks with a couple across a sunlit table

Therapist in a light shirt taking notes in an armchair during an in-person session

Small enough to know you. Big enough to fit you.

We stayed deliberately mid-sized: eight therapists and two prescribers. Big enough that there's a genuine specialist for trauma, OCD, couples work, and the rest — small enough that our care coordinator knows every clinician's style personally, not from a spreadsheet.

The practice runs on one question, asked at intake and every few weeks after: "Is this still helping?" When the answer is no, we change something — the approach, the format, sometimes the therapist. Nobody here is offended by the truth.

— Founded by Dr. Maya Okafor , PhD, Licensed Psychologist

What we hold ourselves to

Four promises, kept boringly.

Fit before everything

The best predictor of therapy helping is the relationship. So we invest where it counts: honest matching, free intro calls, and a no-guilt switch policy.

Plain words

If we can't explain an approach, a fee, or a policy in one breath of normal language, we rewrite it until we can. Jargon is a door closed in someone's face.