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Trauma-informed support for neurodivergent & sensitive adults

“Before the trauma, there was a Coyote.”

 

Imagine yourself before any of it happened. A highly sensitive, adaptable nervous system, learning to survive in environments that were never built for you: that's what I call a Coyote!

This work is from one Coyote to another. This is our pack. This is where we learn who we really are.

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Trauma-informed support for neurodivergent & sensitive adults

“Before the trauma, there was a Coyote.”  🐾

 

Imagine yourself before any of it happened. A highly sensitive, adaptable nervous system, learning to survive in environments that were never built for you: that's what I call a Coyote!

This work is from one Coyote to another. This is our pack. This is where we learn who we really are.

WORK WITH VIVICA

Embodied Relational Mapping™ (ERM) is a somatically-grounded framework for neurodivergent adults navigating complex trauma, attachment wounds, and relational patterns.

 

90-minute 1:1 sessions, available individually or as a 3-month container.

This is a space to embrace your inner coyote — to feel held in your process with depth and compassion.

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 “You had to learn to survive and cope. Together, we detangle survival from your unique self — and come home to the real you."

ADHD AuDHD CPTSD Somatic Trauma-Informed Parts Work

Imagine waking up and recognizing yourself — not the version you built to survive, but the person you are.

Imagine relationships where you don't have to mask, perform, or translate yourself to be understood.

Imagine coming home to your inner pack — the loving, supportive family inside you. 

Embodied Relational Mapping™

Three movements.
One coherent arc.

ERM moves through a three-phase spiral, not a checklist. Each phase builds on the last and returns to it.

01

Attune & Map

We map the pattern.

Understanding how the psyche organized around survival, we start mapping the protective mechanisms and the wounding.

02

Embody & Ground

We build embodied capacity.

We expand the body's ability to feel and to contain difficult emotions. We co-regulate to learn self-regulation. Compassionate Presence becomes available.

03

Relate & Integrate

We bring the work into real life.

Bringing embodied safety into relational spaces, beginning within the therapeutic relationship. We learn to navigate closeness and boundaries.

ERM draws from IFS-informed parts work, somatic awareness, attachment theory, nervous system understanding, and relational depth — translated into language and structure that make sense for how neurodivergent minds actually work.

WHO THIS IS FOR

This work is especially for the neurodivergent and sensitive adult.

 

A sensitive, possibly neurodivergent nervous system — with your own specific traits and gifts.

You may identify with ADHD, AuDHD, or simply a longstanding sense that your nervous system and way of relating have never quite fit conventional models.

And you were possibly never recognized or identified for what you truly are.

THE VOICE IN MY HEAD

I fear I'm not actually capable of the relationships, stability, or "normal life" everyone else seems to manage.

That there's something fundamentally broken in me that no amount of trying will fix.

That I'll always be too much or not enough — never just right. That my nervous system isn't adaptable, it's damaged, and this is just how I am forever.

I worry I'll keep sabotaging the connections I actually want because my nervous system treats intimacy like a threat. I'm running out of time. I'm wasting my life trying to heal instead of living it.

The constant internal noise. The looping thoughts. The emotional overwhelm that comes out of nowhere. The shutdown when things get too much. The exhaustion of masking, performing, and translating myself just to get through a normal day. The relational tension — never knowing if I'm too needy or too distant, reading every interaction for signs I'm doing it wrong.

THE SECRET WISH

I wish it was safe to be myself. I wish my sensitivity was actually a gift, not a liability. I wish my nervous system was designed this way on purpose — not broken, just different.

I wish there was a version of healing that didn't require me to become someone else. 

I wish I could trust that the right people would love me as I actually am, not as the performance I've perfected. I wish I could stop running from myself and finally come home.

 

A NOTE ON DIAGNOSIS

You do not need a formal diagnosis to benefit from this work. Self-identified, questioning, or exploring whether neurodivergence may be part of the picture — you belong here.

You are ready to find your pack.  🐾

EXHAUSTED FROM MASKING, PERFORMING, AND FORCING YOURSELF INTO A VERSION OF 'NORMAL' THAT WAS NEVER BUILT FOR HOW YOU'RE WIRED?

Finding your pack means not needing to force yourself into a model that was never built for the complexity of your experience.

 

You are a very intelligent coyote. But understanding the issues is not always the same as change. When trauma, neurodivergence, relational pain, and nervous system overwhelm overlap, the pattern is often more complex than simple coping skills, mindset work, or behavior change can reach. 

Other approaches stop here. ERM goes further.

 

WHAT SHIFTS WITH ERM

  • Insight → EMBODIED CHANGE
  • Symptom management → PATTERN RECOGNITION
  • Coping → A DIFFERENT RELATIONSHIP TO YOURSELF
  • Healing from trauma → REBUILDING YOUR REAL IDENTITY

WORKING WITH ME

A different kind of work.

My work lives at the intersection of trauma and neurodiversity, because they are two sides of the same coin — equally important, and both essential to understanding the whole person.

We start with mapping where you are.

Not with a script, but looking at the coping patterns that are already present: the overwhelm, the shutdown, the looping thoughts, the relational tension, the parts of you that protect, perform, people please or control.

We restore safety in the body and reclaim personal agency.

Insight is useful, but real change usually takes more than insight. It takes enough safety, enough honesty, and enough capacity for the body to allow the changes to happen.

We expand toward loving acceptance of your Coyote self — and begin building relationships that feel safe.

The goal is not to become someone else. The goal is to understand your inner Coyote system well enough that you can live with less shame, more compassion, and more choice.

CLIENT EXPERIENCES

From Coyotes who
found their pack.

For years, I sought answers, healing, and relief in traditional psychotherapy. While I found some comfort, I was always left feeling incomplete, burdened with self-blame, and driven by an unshakable yearning—for something. It was as if I were constantly running, fleeing, avoiding, and fighting myself. I spiraled into unfathomable darkness. 

I finally gathered the courage to contact Vivica.
We delved into profound, transformative inner work—exploring metaphysical realms and connecting with parts of myself that, even as I write this, feel too expansive to name. Initially, Vivica resisted my impulse to dive straight into medicine, guiding me instead through a year of careful healing—gently uncovering hidden truths and navigating the darkest corners of my mind. Through Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, every fragile part of me was acknowledged, held, and gently nurtured as we untangled old wounds and coaxed out the layers I had buried so long ago.

With deep gratitude to Vivica, I can honestly say that anyone searching for healing, growth, or self-discovery should begin here. Her guidance has been transformative, and I wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone on their own journey.   

— SK, Client 2024

"It's been really, really good. Noticeably, tangibly good. I've noticed such a difference in my capacity, my patience, my ability to slow down. My communication with my wife is night and day. I've started creating space for myself to just be present, not distracted. And I'm refusing to operate from a place of shame any longer. If I make a mistake, it's a mistake. It's not shame. 

I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop — but it doesn't. And I catch myself thinking, holy shit, can I just go through my life this way now? It feels like magic. Insane and beautiful. I find myself overwhelmed by the beauty of my life, my son, how lucky I am. None of it feels manufactured. I'm just trying not to hold on so tight it suffocates — to really let it all in, feel it in my whole body. It's a lot. But it's all welcome. And it's pretty beautiful." 

—  HW, Client 2026

 

DEEP IMMERSION

Ceremonial Space 

This part of my work is shaped by years of dedicated study within the Amazonian Shipibo healing tradition, along with trauma-informed relational and somatic practice. It is approached with respect, discernment, and a strong emphasis on pacing.

  • Preparation for deep ceremonial or medicine experiences
  • Support in understanding the emotional, relational, and nervous system dynamics that emerge around ceremony
  • Integration that helps profound experiences become more workable in real life
  • A slower and more respectful bridge between spiritual depth and embodied change

This work is not offered casually. It belongs to Coyotes who are ready — in the right timing, with the right foundation, and within a relationship that has already established trust.

ABOUT VIVICA

Healing guide. Framework creator. Fellow Coyote.  🐾

 

Vivica is a Healing Guide and the creator of Embodied Relational Mapping™. Her work brings together IFS-informed parts work, somatic awareness, attachment theory, nervous system understanding, relational depth, and trauma-informed support to make sense of patterns that insight alone does not change.

She works especially with neurodivergent adults, including people who identify with ADHD, AuDHD, or a longstanding sense that their inner world, relationships, and nervous system responses do not fit conventional models.

Alongside ERM, Vivica has spent 10 years in dedicated study within the Amazonian Shipibo shamanic tradition, achieving the status of maestra curandera. This path informs her understanding of healing as both psychological and spiritual, and shapes the depth with which she approaches preparation, process, and integration of sacred plant medicine.

She holds a BFA and certificates in trauma-informed, somatic, attachment-based, and parts-work training. Her background includes ten years as a Certified Clinical Technician in Whole Food Nutrition working directly with clients — work that deepened her understanding of the body as a site of healing long before ERM took its current form. Her practice is further grounded in her lived experience as an AuDHD person and a long-term commitment to careful, respectful depth work.

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