Trained under Dr. Gabor Maté
Compassionate Inquiry (CI)
Trained under Dr. Janina Fisher
Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST)
+6,000 private sessions
+1,000 hours group work
ICF Credentialed Coach
Relational Trauma
Hi, I'm Maria Marc
Trauma integration practitioner and ICF-credentialed coach
I work in the territory most leadership coaching avoids - the hidden, the unspoken, the parts of your history quietly shaping how you lead, relate, and show up today. What looks like a leadership problem may be an old adaptation asking to be understood. And when the demands of a role, institution, or culture repeatedly require you to act against your values, the impact is not merely burnout. It can become moral injury.
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Work with me
The origin story...
Family is often the first institution most of us belong to - the place we first learn the unspoken rules of loyalty, love, and worth. Long before we adapt to a workplace or a movement, we adapt to a household: what earns us belonging, what keeps us safe, what costs too much to say out loud. That original blueprint doesn't disappear when we grow up. It becomes the lens through which we recognize - or fail to recognize - what's true for us everywhere else.
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​The Cost
The cost is not just emotional. It lives in the body as chronic override, confusion, depletion - a slow disconnection from your own inner authority. Over time, you stop trusting yourself. You start performing instead of leading.
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Over time, you stop trusting yourself. You start performing instead of leading.
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Where Things Turn
The same hidden patterns that shaped your family go on to shape every institution you build after it - a team, a board, a movement, a cause. What began as one person's unspoken rule becomes a whole system's unspoken rule. But a pattern you can name is no longer running you. The moment you see the rule, you're no longer only inside it - you're standing somewhere you can finally choose.
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The Work
I help you bring what's hidden into the light - not as pathology, but as the raw material for real authority. This isn't about fixing what's wrong with you. It's about recognizing the patterns that once protected you, so you can finally set down what you no longer need to carry.
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It's time to have the courage to be imperfect. Time to make a quiet vow: to stop neglecting yourself, and to feel - authentically, again - what is actually true.
Ways We Might Work Together
Who is this for
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This work is for you if you're:
A leader, founder, or practitioner carrying more than you can name
A helper, facilitator, or first responder whose body has adapted to impossible environments
A caregiver or change-maker navigating inherited roles and unspoken rules
No longer willing to abandon yourself just to stay in a toxic or unhealthy system
Ready to live and lead with authenticity and integrity.
A Different Way Forward
You do not need more pressure, more strategies, or more reasons to override what your body already knows.
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You may need a space where what has been carried alone can finally be met with enough safety, precision, and compassion to become workable.
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This work offers a way to metabolize the past without being ruled by it, to meet the present without abandoning yourself, and to move toward a future shaped by integrity rather than performance at all cost.
