The Survival Map · IFS · Somatic Experiencing · Ketamine-Assisted Therapy
Integrative Trauma Therapy & KAP
for Deep Nervous System Healing
For people who have done therapy and still feel stuck in the body.
I help adults reach the trauma that talk therapy alone cannot. Through Internal Family Systems, Somatic Experiencing, attachment repair, and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, all held inside an original clinical framework.
In-person in Fort Lauderdale · Telehealth across Florida and 30+ states · Aetna in-network for Florida residents
THE PROBLEM
You understand your patterns. Your body still acts like the danger is in the room.
You have read the books. You can name what happened to you. You have probably been in therapy before, maybe for years.
And still, the freeze shows up. The overfunctioning. The exhaustion that does not lift even when life looks fine on the outside. The relationships where closeness comes with a cost.
This is not a failure of effort. This is what trauma does. It lives in the nervous system, not in the story you tell about it.
Some of it cannot be reached by words alone.
That is the work I do.
The Survival Map
An original six-stage framework for understanding how childhood emotional neglect shapes the nervous system, and what healing actually looks like.
A rare integration, held by one clinician.
Most therapists offer one or two modalities. Most ketamine providers offer the medicine without the therapy.
I offer the full depth toolkit, integrated, inside a framework I built from over a decade of work with people whose trauma started long before they had words for it.
The depth modalities
Internal Family Systems, Somatic Experiencing, Emotion-Focused Therapy, and attachment repair. Used together, not in isolation.
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy
For when the work needs to reach beneath what cognition can hold. Held inside the same therapeutic relationship, not handed off.
Complex trauma and PTSD
Including the patterns that developed as protection and are now quietly exhausting you.
Attachment wounds and relationship patterns
Including mixed signals, fear of being too much, relationship anxiety, and difficulty receiving steady love.
You might be in the right place if...
You have spent your life being the one who handles everything.
Underneath the capability is a nervous system that has forgotten how to feel safe. You may have grown up without enough emotional guidance, learning instead to survive through overfunctioning and self-reliance.
Most of my clients are navigating some version of:
WHO I WORK WITH
Childhood emotional neglect
Especially when nothing looked obviously wrong from the outside but you still grew up emotionally alone.
Shame and self-abandonment
Especially when shame has formed around your needs, your emotions, or the strategies that once kept you safe.
Nervous system regulation
Including exhaustion, shutdown, irritability, difficulty resting, and body symptoms without a clear medical explanation.
Overfunctioning and burnout
For people who carry too much and push through at the cost of their body.
Dr. Mariya’s Original Framework
The Survival Map:
Six Stages of Healing Emotional Neglect
Childhood emotional neglect is the trauma of omission—the things that did not happen. This framework serves as a guide to your nervous system's journey from survival to embodiment.
STAGE 01
Neglect: The Trauma of Omission
The Unseen Foundation
Before there is a story, there is a child reaching. Reaching for warmth. When the reaching is met inconsistently or not at all, the body learns its first lesson. The cumulative effect is what we now call complex post-traumatic stress disorder.
STAGE 02
Chaos: The Unseen Storm
Adaptive Survival
A nervous system that cannot predict safety cannot rest. This stage is where many reach for substances or relationships to manage dysregulation. Shame builds, but the body was only quietening the storm it was born into.
STAGE 03
Protective Control: The Gold Cage
Performing Wellness
When trust is broken, achievers respond with structure. Performance and excellence earn the safety that wasn't freely given. It looks like virtue, but it is a nervous system shielding itself behind competence.
STAGE 04
Nervous System Adaptations
The Nervous System Crisis
Adaptations like Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Fawn are not personality flaws; they are intelligent survival responses. Healing begins by teaching the nervous system that the danger has finally passed.
STAGE 05
Loving Through Complex Trauma
Relationships & Intimacy
Closeness becomes a trigger when it was once the site of hurt. We shift the focus from personality clashes to co-regulation, making intimacy a safe terrain rather than a threat to survival.
STAGE 06
Embodiment
A Sustainable Map
The destination—a nervous system that has learned it is finally allowed to come home. Embodiment isn't constant calm, but the presence of feeling without flinching from it.
Where are you on the map?
You don't have to navigate this journey alone. Reach out to discuss how therapy can help you find your way back to yourself.
SOCIAL PROOF
“After years of therapy, I finally felt something shift in my body, not just my understanding.”
— A.M.
“For the first time, I could feel my body start to come out of survival mode instead of just talking about why I was stuck there.”
— L.K.
Composite reflections drawn from the kind of feedback this work generates. Specific client identities and details are never shared.
What people are saying
HIPAA prevents me from publishing client names or stories. What I can share is what people in this work have noticed.
“I came in thinking I needed coping skills. I left understanding why I needed them in the first place.”
— J.R.
“I didn’t realize how much I was abandoning myself until we mapped out my patterns. Now I can notice them and choose something different.”
— M.W.
“The Survival Map gave me language for things I had carried my whole life without being able to name.”
— S.T.
“The ketamine work let us reach places that felt older than words. Having somatic integration and a steady, safe relationship around it made it feel like my nervous system could finally start to trust.”
— D.S.
About Dr. Mariya, PsyD
I didn’t choose this work from a textbook.
I grew up in an environment that had a lot of chaos in it. From very early on I learned what it meant to navigate life without enough guidance. Without enough safety. Without a map.
That experience shaped everything I do as a clinician. It is why I specialize in trauma, emotional neglect, and somatic awareness, not just because I studied it, but because I have lived a version of it.
What I know, both personally and professionally, is that the patterns that kept you safe once do not have to define you forever. The nervous system that learned to survive can also learn what it feels like to finally feel safe.
“Your nervous system adapted intelligently to everything it was given.
That is not a flaw. That is the most human thing there is.”
— Dr. Mariya, PsyD · The Survival Map™
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Where We’ll Meet
We offer healing spaces for both in-person and digital connection. Whether you prefer the grounding presence of an office setting or the comfort of your own home, we are here to support your journey.
In-Person Therapy
805 East Broward Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
Telehealth sessions available across the state of Florida and via 30+ PsyPact participating states, ensuring continuity of care wherever you are located.