About – MARIALMFT

About

Meet Maria Christina

Therapist, Coach, Animal lover, Human

My Story

Before I was a coach, I was the woman searching for one

I grew up as a deeply sensitive person in a world that did not quite know what to do with my depth or emotional attunement. I learned early to adapt, to shrink and to make myself easier for others even when it meant disconnecting from my own needs and inner wisdom.

Across my life I moved through layers of trauma that left me with C-PTSD chronic self doubt and a nervous system stuck in survival mode. For over twenty five years I worked with therapists and coaches searching for an approach that honored my intuition, my attachment wounds and the way my body held my history. When I finally found that things began to shift.

In 2022 guided by a deep openness to new modalities, I tried ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP). It helped me access healing in a way nothing else had. That experience opened a new chapter in my work and inspired me to train in KAP and psychedelic integration so I could offer others the same depth of transformation.

Today my work blends trauma informed therapy, somatic healing, intuitive coaching and ketamine and psychedelic integration. It is the approach I needed when I was trying to find my way back to myself and the one that now helps the women I serve reconnect with who they are becoming.

I became the woman I needed when I was breaking. Now I help other women rise from the ashes of trauma and transition into lives rooted in truth, intuition and grounded abundance.

And then something shifted.

My nervous system rewired.

My intuition sharpened.

My voice returned.

My power anchored.

My purpose crystallized.

The Women I Work With

I support women in their forties, fifties and sixties who have spent their lives being capable, responsible and successful. Women who have built businesses, raised families, held relationships together and carried the emotional weight of everyone around them.

From the outside their lives still look steady. Inside something has shifted. They may be moving through divorce, empty nesting, menopause, grief, business changes or a life transition that quietly disrupted the identity they lived in for decades. They have tried therapy, coaching, wellness routines, hormone and supplements yet still feel stuck, foggy, disconnected or unsure of who they are now.

They are not broken. They are becoming.

Their old identity no longer fits and the next version of themselves is trying to emerge.

A Life Rebuilt. A Purpose Claimed. A Calling Lived.

Professional Bio

Maria is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and intuitive coach specializing in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy and psychedelic integration. She blends somatic work, attachment based therapy, trauma informed care and coaching to help women turn expanded states of consciousness into grounded lasting transformation.

She is the creator of The ALIGN Method and The RISE Method, two frameworks designed to support women through identity transitions and creating a life designed around their authentic self.

Maria’s work is known for its depth of attunement and capacity to transform profound emotional experiences into aligned action, helping women reclaim their power and create lives that feel joyful, nourishing, and true to who they are.

My Philosophy

Healing is not about “fixing” you.

It is the sacred work of returning you to yourself. My work is to meet you with depth and presence, holding a grounded space where your own inner wisdom can rise and lead your healing.

I believe:

Expanded states of consciousness can open profound insight, but their lasting power comes through grounded intentional integration.
The nervous system is the doorway to real transformation.
True change is relational, somatic and rooted in addressing what is underneath.
Intuition is a profound resource when it is trusted and given room to lead.
Reinvention is possible at any age in any season.
You are not broken. You are becoming who you were always meant to be.