Your body has
been keeping
score.
For perinatal women, trans youth and adults, and women with ADHD who are done explaining themselves to people who should already know.
You don’t have to perform okay in here.
You’ll know in about ten seconds if this is you.
You love this baby. You are also not okay.
Those are not contradictions. Pregnancy, postpartum, loss and infertility are brutal on a nervous system. If you have ADHD, your PPD risk is five times higher and almost no one is screening for it.
Read morein ADHD moms.
The system adds another layer of not being heard.
This room doesn’t need you to be grateful.
modalities
Your “too much” was always the right amount. Wrong rooms.
ADHD, trauma and sexual health don’t live in separate boxes. They live in the same nervous system. AASECT-informed. BIPOC culturally responsive care built in.
Read moreYou don’t have to educate me. We start from you already knowing who you are.
Gender-affirming. Trauma-focused. No gatekeeping.
Read moreMost therapists talk about trauma.
Fewer actually go there.
Four nervous-system-level modalities. Rare in solo practice. We use what your body needs, not what’s easiest to explain. I also draw on ACT and IFS when your nervous system is ready for that kind of work.
EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
Reprocesses traumatic memories so they stop hijacking your present. Evidence-based. Highly effective for complex trauma and PTSD.
Brainspotting
Brainspotting Therapy
Uses your visual field to locate and process trauma stored deep in the brain and body. For when words aren’t enough.
ART
Accelerated Resolution Therapy
Reduces the emotional charge of traumatic memories fast. Real relief, often in fewer sessions than you’d expect.
DBR
Deep Brain Reprocessing
Works with brainstem-level responses other modalities don’t always reach. For the deepest layers of shutdown and dysregulation.
Maria Suarez, LCSW
Puerto Rican roots. Bronx energy.
Zero poker face.
“I am not here to nod. I am here to actually help.”
I’m Maria Suarez, LCSW. Puerto Rican, Bronx-raised, ADHD-brained, and genuinely incapable of a poker face. I started my career in the rooms nobody wants to be in and I stayed. Because that’s where the real work is.
I built this practice for the people the system kept missing. As a BIPOC therapist I know firsthand what it means to navigate spaces that weren’t built for you. That’s not a tagline. It’s why I do this.
Meet MariaYou hold space for everyone.
Who holds it for you?
Clinicians, helpers and social workers carry a specific kind of weight most therapy isn’t built for. You don’t have to translate yourself here. Burnout, vicarious trauma, ADHD and identity in a field that still expects you to hold it all together.
Also here for first responders and high-impact roles.
On the Hawaii first responder referral list. ResponderStrong certified. Burnout, postpartum after returning to duty, identity in a culture that wasn’t built for you.
You can put
the armor
down now.
Send a message. No forms, no pressure.
I read every message personally.
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