High-functioning PTSD
Sharpness, speed and stamina.
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In this specific mentorship, Kaya works with high-performing individuals whose outer success conceals a state of inner strain—ongoing, unprocessed, and deeply embedded in the nervous system.
She works with leaders who operate with sharpness, speed, and stamina—yet live in quiet proximity to collapse. Not because they’re weak, but because they never truly stopped moving long enough to integrate what hurt them.
At this level, PTSD doesn’t look like shaking or shutdown. It looks like excellence. Charisma. Hyper-clarity under pressure. A mind that never turns off. A body that doesn’t know rest. It hides behind movement. It disguises itself as productivity, urgency, and control. It thrives in high-stakes environments. Not as weakness, but as the very structure of strength. Until that structure begins to crack. Until sleep disappears. Deep fulfillment becomes unfamiliar. And success starts to feel like a prison of their own making.
This mentorship is an intensive, individualized alliance focused on reclaiming access to regulation, sensation, and safety—without destroying the leadership position. It is not about falling apart or losing edge. It is a journey back to the body, to recalibrate strength at its root.
The work centers on five structural layers:
– High-functioning freeze and overdrive response
– The split between performance and safety
– Trauma-based identity structures
– Nervous system rigidity and suppression of rest
– Emotional unavailability in intimate and relational dynamics
Clients enter this mentorship not to cope better with stress, but to exit the loop of constant survival. They come not because they’ve failed. They are not looking for another win. They are longing for answers and a nervous system that can hold both success and softness.
The process is deep, direct, and discreet. There is no one-size-fits-all protocol. No easy-fix bio-hacks. No famous breathing techniques layered on top of a nervous system still in lockdown. Kaya offers long-term behavioral and somatic recalibration, grounded in psychodynamics, neurobiology, touch and trauma integration. To claim back what was lost. Safety. Presence. Life.
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Entry by referral, interview, or application.
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