Areas I Work With
Anxiety & Quiet Minds
Navigating overthinking, worry, and the responsibility of keeping everything under control.
Depression & Reconnection
Addressing burnout, emotional exhaustion, and the feeling that things are suddenly harder manage.
Relational Patterns
Understanding struggles with trust, boundaries, people-pleasing, and repeating relationship cycles.
Life Transitions
Supporting you through career shifts, relocations, loss, breakups, or major identity changes.
Changing Deep Patterns
Bridging the gap between understanding why you act a certain way and actually changing it.
Trauma & Nervous System
Healing historical experiences that still influence your current sense of safety and response.
How I Work
Therapy is a process of expanding choice. We work together to understand the deep-seated patterns that shape your life, bringing awareness to the nervous system and the relational blueprints formed by your history.
By combining insight with practical change, we move beyond just noticing what is happening to understanding why—and how to respond to yourself and others differently.
My workIntegrating psychodynamic depth with somatic awareness, attachment work, and parts-oriented perspectives, we tailor each session to your unique psychological terrain.
Utilizing The Survival Map™ framework to foster self-compassion and clarity throughout the therapeutic journey.
"There is no single model that explains every human being. Therapy should be adapted to you, not the other way around."
— Dr. Mariya, PsyD · The Survival Map™
The Survival Map™ & How I Work
Therapy is a collaborative process of understanding the patterns that once served you. We focus on nervous-system awareness, attachment, and relational depth to create meaningful insight and practical change.
My approach is relational and integrative. I draw from attachment perspectives, somatic nervous-system work, and IFS-informed modalities to help you identify how your past influences your present safety and connection.
- Pattern understanding vs. simple symptoms
- Nervous-system regulation and awareness
- Attachment and relational healing
- The Survival Map™ framework
"Understanding the logic underneath a pattern does not mean remaining stuck in it. It gives us a more compassionate and useful place from which to change."
— Dr. Mariya, PsyD · The Survival Map™
Clinical psychologist
Relational Depth. Individualized Care.
I am a Licensed Clinical Psychologist with doctoral and graduate-level education and clinical training shaped across both the United States and Europe.
My work has continued to evolve through advanced training in areas including attachment and trauma therapy, psychodrama, somatic approaches, Internal Family Systems-informed work, integrative psychotherapy, and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy.
But I do not believe that collecting therapeutic approaches is what makes therapy effective.
What matters is knowing when and how to bring those perspectives together for the individual person.
I pay attention to your emotional experience, relationships, history, culture, nervous system, strengths, protective patterns, and the way you experience yourself.
I am comfortable with complexity, but you do not need a complex diagnosis to work with me.
You might come because you are experiencing anxiety.
Because your relationship is hurting.
Because you are depressed.
Because something happened years ago that still affects you.
Because your career or life has changed.
Or simply because you have reached a point where you want to understand yourself differently.
I bring curiosity, warmth, honesty, depth, and genuine care to this work. Therapy with me is collaborative and relational. I will listen deeply, but I will also engage with you, help make connections, notice patterns, ask questions, and stay curious about what is happening both in your life and between us in the therapy room.
I believe people deserve to feel understood before they are asked to change.
"Therapy is not about becoming someone else. It is about understanding yourself deeply enough to have more choice in how you live, relate, and respond."
— Dr. Mariya, PsyD · The Survival Map™
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Dr. Mariya, PsyD
Virtual Therapy
Virtual psychotherapy for adults in Florida and eligible PSYPACT states.
In-Person Therapy
Limited in-person appointments in Fort Lauderdale.
Insurance & Private Pay
Private pay available; select insurance plans; coverage depends on plan, location, and benefits.
“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™